Potential of Precedent in the Statutory Legal Order

This book is devoted to the problem of the role of precedent as a legal category and an element of judicial practice in statutory legal orders. It presents theoretical, practical (based on Polish and European jurisprudence) and comparative considerations dealing with the potential of precedential practice in statutory law.

This book is devoted to various aspects of the potential of precedent as a legal category and the precedential practice as an element of the law in statutory legal orders. It presents a complex approach to the problems involved in precedential practice, including its theoretical consideration and generalization of the practical use of prior judicial decisions as precedents (based on the observation of Polish and European judicial practice) as well as comparative and prospective remarks dealing with the role of precedents in the statutory law order.

Precedential practice in civil law culture Different aspects of judicial argumentation Influence of precedents on law application processes in the statutory legal order Law interpretation and legal argumentation