This Just in: The Law of Judicial Precedent
Bryan Garner, the editor of Black’s Law Dictionary and co-author of a number of other books on the law is back with this hefty tome on judicial precedent. The forward for the book is written by US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and there is a chapter by another Justice Neil Gorsuch. The rest of the contributors are all long experienced state and federal judges. Thorough as you would expect from a text written by experienced jurists, the volume is still easy to read and flows well despite extensive annotations. In depth topics covered are: the nature and authority of judicial precedents, the weight of decisions, practicalities of stare decisis, the law of the case, federal doctrine and practice, state law in federal court, state law doctrine and practice, foreign precedents, and arbitration considerations.
