Constitutional law and precedent : international perspectives on case-based reasoning / edited by Monika Florczak-Wątor.

Introduction : on the methodology of the research on case-based reasoning in constitutional adjudication / Monika Florczak-Wątor -- United States of America. The Supreme Court of the United States : legitimate law-maker and constitutional interpreter / Paweł Laidler -- Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada : the road to authority, legitimacy, and independence / Bradford W. Morse, Kimia Jalilvand -- Australia. Precedents and case-based reasoning in the Case-Law of The High Court of Australia / Selena Bateman, Adrienne Stone -- Germany. The role of precedents and case-based reasoning in the German Federal Constitutional Court / Ruth Weber, Laura Wittmann -- Hungary. Precedents and case-based reasoning in the Case-Law of the Hungarian Constitutional Court / Zoltan Pozsar-Szentmikolsy -- Italy. Precedents and case-based reasoning in the adjudications of the Italian Constitutional Court / Giovanni Cavaggion -- Latvia. Precedents and case-based reasoning in constitutional adjudication : The Republic of Latvia / Anita Rodiņa -- Poland. Precedents and case-based reasoning in the Case-Law of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland / Piotr Czarny, Monika Florczak-Wątor -- Romania. The Role of precedents and case-based reasoning in the Case-Law of the Romanian Constitutional Court / Bianca Selejan-Guțan, Elena-Simina Tănăsescu -- Court of Justice of the European Union -- 'stone-by-stone' case-based reasoning / Alicja Sikora -- European Court of Human Rights. Precedent in the system of the European Convention on Human Rights / Krzysztof Wojtyczek -- Conclusion. The role of case-based reasoning in constitutional adjudication : a comparative study / Monika Florczak-Wątor.

"This collection examines case-based reasoning in constitutional adjudication, that is, how courts decide on constitutional cases by referring to their own prior case law and the case law of other national, foreign and international courts. Argumentation based on judicial authority is now fundamental to the resolution of constitutional disputes. At the same time, it is the most common form of reasoning used by courts. This volume shows not only the strengths and weaknesses of such argumentation, but also its serious methodological shortcomings. The book is comparative in nature, with individual chapters examining similar problems that different courts have resolved in different ways. The research covers three types of courts, namely the civil law constitutional courts of Germany, Italy, Poland, Lithuania and Hungary, the common law supreme courts of the United States, Canada and Australia, and the European international courts represented by the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union. The authors are distinguished scholars from various countries who specialise in constitutional justice issues. This book will be of interest to legal theorists and practitioners, and will also be especially insightful for constitutional court judges"-- Provided by publisher.

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