Using Open Casebooks
This area is closely related to the work on human rights and poverty, human development and capabilities, and equality and nondiscrimination regulation. The Aging, Law & Society CRN aims to bring collectively authorized scholars and students working in the social sciences to share research and ideas about the relationship between law and growing older. Specifically, the Aging, Law & Society CRN is meant to create opportunities for students to consider and discuss how the legislation responds to the needs of people as they age, in addition to how regulation shapes the aging experience. The aim of the proposed CRN is to increase dialogue and collaboration on essential descriptive and normative questions associated to legislation and aging. The CRN focuses on expertise, within the present day and in a speculative future, as both the subject and object of social life.
The Common Law, then, might have restricted its doctrine of stare decisis by holding that later courts weren’t certain by earlier decisions that have been wrongly decided. Instead it developed a special follow””that of ”˜overruling”™, whereby some courts got a limited power to deprive earlier decisions of their binding standing on the basis that they were wrongly decided. So the Common Law’s version of the doctrine of precedent does not inevitably circulate from the truth that precedents have practical authority. Nonetheless the concept of being sure to follow even erroneous decisions is a standard characteristic of many establishments choice-making, and would be the focus of this entry. Law …