Processes in precedent : a multiple-constraint model of legal reasoning
This dissertation examines what it means to decide a legal case according to precedent. I present a descriptive model of precedent, which relies on cognitive science studies of human reasoning to explain some characteristics of precedential reasoning. My basic thesis is that the traditional view of...
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University of Cambridge
1999
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604816 |