A Short History of the Precedent in England

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i20.554

Keywords:

Common law, doctrine of precedent, Early Modern period, Middle Ages, ratio decidendi, Year Books, obiter dictum, law reports, legal reasoning

Abstract

In this article, I will propose a line of research about the theory and history of the doctrine of precedent, one of the crucial elements of the rule of law of the Anglo-American legal family. Among other things, I will show how the idea of precedent goes back to the formative period of the common law. I will also discuss the emergence of the modern doctrine of precedent as well as its relation to its medieval development. Upon this framework, I will discuss my proposed line of research.

Enviado el (Submission Date): 05/09/2018

Aceptado el (Acceptance Date): 23/11/2018

Author Biography

Victor Saucedo Maqueda, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Mi trayectoria de investigación se ha caracterizado por un interés en la cultura jurídica de common law. Me doctoré en Derecho por la Universidad Autonoma de Madrid en Octubre de 2017, con una tesis sobre el delito de conspiración en Inglaterra que ha sido publicada recientemente por Dykinson con el título "Conspiracy. A Conceptual Genealogy" (2018). El estudio de dicha cultura se ha cimentado en varias estancias de investigación realizadas entre 2007 y 2018 en la Harvard Law School, el Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte y el University College London. Mi docencia en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid desde 2013 también ha reflejado este interés pues he impartido dos cursos en inglés titulados Foundations of Comparative Law (2017 y 2018) y un curso de verano titulado Separated by History: Civil Law and Common Law from a Historical Perpective (Mayo 2018). victor.saucedo@uam.es

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Published

2018-10-09

Issue

No. 20 (2019): Historia Constitucional N. 20 (2019)

Section

Europe

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