Issue 5

SYMPOSIUM

PRECEDENT & THE ROBERTS COURT

Keynote Address
 
Constitutional Precedent Viewed Through
the Lens of Hartian Positivist Jurisprudence

Richard H. Fallon, Jr.

 
Perspectives on the Doctrine of Stare Decisis
 
Does the Supreme Court's Current Doctrine of
Stare Decisis Require Adherence to the Supreme
Court's Current Doctrine of Stare Decisis?

Michael Stokes Paulsen

 
Modesty, Of a Sort, in the Setting of Precedents

David E. Klein

 
Chief Justice Roberts and Precedent:
A Preliminary Study

Frank B. Cross

 
The Irrepressibility of Precedent

Michael J. Gerhardt

 
Methodologies for Analyzing Precedent and the Roberts Court
 
On the Capacity of the Roberts Court to
Generate Consequential Precedent

Lee Epstein,

 

Barry Friedman & Nancy Staudt

 
From Judge to Justice:  Social Background
Theory and the Supreme Court

Tracey E. George

 
The Big Picture:  External and Internal Influences on the
Roberts Court's Handling of Precedent
 
The Law of Small Numbers:  Gonzales v. Carhardt,
Parents Involved in Community Schools, and
Some Themes from the First Full Term of the
Roberts Court

Pamela S. Karlan

 
Ideological Cohesion and Precedent (or Why the
Court Only Cares about Precedent When Most
Justices Agree With Each Other)

Neal Devins