Precedent

Autores

  • David M. O’Brien University of Virginia
  • Marco Félix Jobim Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30899/dfj.v12i38.711

Palavras-chave:

Precedent, Supreme Court, Overturn

Resumo

Precedent is and remains central to common law, but is neither fixed in stone, a mechanical rule to follow, nor fundamentally “binding.” In interesting yet often neglected ways, precedents may
not only be expressly but implicitly overruled, abandoned or circumvented (without saying so), so as to render them no longer “good law”, or undercut by simply whittling them down to size, only then to subsequently reaffirm them.

Biografia do Autor

David M. O’Brien, University of Virginia

Ph.D. University of California (Santa Barbara). Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer
Professor, (University of Virginia – Charlottesville - EUA). Has been a Judicial Fellow
and Research Associate at the Supreme Court of the U.S., held Fulbright Teaching
and Research Awards at Oxford University, England (1987-1988), the University of
Bologna, Italy (1999), and in Japan (Summers, 1993 and 1994), and was a Visiting
Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York (1981-1982), and Visiting Professor
at Institut d’Etudes Politique Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2 (2006), as well as Fulbright
Specialist Lecturer on Constitutional Law and Politics at Pontificia Universidade Católica
do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2017), and a Fudan Senior Fellow -2017
and 2018 (Summers) at Fudan University Law School, Shanghai, China. He served as a
commissioner on the U.S.–Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Exchange and
the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission.

Marco Félix Jobim, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Adjunct Professor at PUCRS (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul). Master,
Doctor and Post-doctorate in Law. Laywer.

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2019-03-27

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O’Brien, D. M., & Jobim, M. F. (2019). Precedent. Revista Brasileira De Direitos Fundamentais & Justiça, 12(38), 35–44. https://doi.org/10.30899/dfj.v12i38.711