Ensuring Uniform Case Law in Slovenia: Jurisprudence Constante, Stare Decisis, and a Third Approach
The judicial doctrine of jurisprudence constante is a civil-law equivalent of the common law doctrine of stare decisis. Both doctrines resulted from the 19th-century legal positivist movement criticizing the liberty of courts when deciding like cases. If stare decisis has developed into a normativel...
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| description | The judicial doctrine of jurisprudence constante is a civil-law equivalent of the common law doctrine of stare decisis. Both doctrines resulted from the 19th-century legal positivist movement criticizing the liberty of courts when deciding like cases. If stare decisis has developed into a normatively serious doctrine ensuring coherent and consistent adjudication, jurisprudence constante, however, did not go that far. After a short historical introduction regarding the development of both doctrines, this paper discusses their most important normative differences, provides reasons for these differences, and analyzes the problems that the civil-law doctrine presents in the Slovene legal system in particular, the possibility of transplanting the common law doctrine to our country, and the need for a third way approach to better ensure uniform case law in Slovenia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5980e7dd5ff34b84b19f9e2f2fef6d322022-12-21T17:26:50ZengMaria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityStudia Iuridica Lublinensia1731-63752018-05-0127110.17951/sil.2018.27.1.1314994Ensuring Uniform Case Law in Slovenia: Jurisprudence Constante, Stare Decisis, and a Third ApproachMarko Novak0Nova UniverzaThe judicial doctrine of jurisprudence constante is a civil-law equivalent of the common law doctrine of stare decisis. Both doctrines resulted from the 19th-century legal positivist movement criticizing the liberty of courts when deciding like cases. If stare decisis has developed into a normatively serious doctrine ensuring coherent and consistent adjudication, jurisprudence constante, however, did not go that far. After a short historical introduction regarding the development of both doctrines, this paper discusses their most important normative differences, provides reasons for these differences, and analyzes the problems that the civil-law doctrine presents in the Slovene legal system in particular, the possibility of transplanting the common law doctrine to our country, and the need for a third way approach to better ensure uniform case law in Slovenia.https://journals.umcs.pl/sil/article/view/6611sloveniacase lawjurisprudence constantestare decisisthird approach |
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| title | Ensuring Uniform Case Law in Slovenia: Jurisprudence Constante, Stare Decisis, and a Third Approach |
| title_full | Ensuring Uniform Case Law in Slovenia: Jurisprudence Constante, Stare Decisis, and a Third Approach |
| title_fullStr | Ensuring Uniform Case Law in Slovenia: Jurisprudence Constante, Stare Decisis, and a Third Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ensuring Uniform Case Law in Slovenia: Jurisprudence Constante, Stare Decisis, and a Third Approach |
| title_short | Ensuring Uniform Case Law in Slovenia: Jurisprudence Constante, Stare Decisis, and a Third Approach |
| title_sort | ensuring uniform case law in slovenia jurisprudence constante stare decisis and a third approach |
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