Oxford University Press.(Constitutional)

Legal Publisher, January, 2008

"The Power of Precedent," to be released next month by Oxford University Press (Cary, NC), is a new book that illustrates how constitutional law is made and evolves both in and outside of the courts. The volume examines the extent to which the Supreme Court, Congress and the executive branch are constrained by precedent and discusses to what extent those institutions should be constrained.

It outlines the major issues in the ongoing debates on the significance of precedent in all its forms, including not only the Court's past decisions, but also norms, historical practices and the traditions that justices have chosen to follow. The new book costs $45.