How and Why Do Courts Cite?: Intertextual References in the Decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and the Supreme Court of Canada - Couverture souple

Steigler-Herms, Joy

 
9783662719336: How and Why Do Courts Cite?: Intertextual References in the Decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and the Supreme Court of Canada
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ISBN 10 : 3662719339 ISBN 13 : 9783662719336
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2026

Synopsis

Court decisions can neither be made nor drafted without references to other texts; citations are omnipresent in judicial rulings. Every decision takes relevant normative texts or precedents into account, primarily to ensure coherent case law. Through the act of referencing, courts demonstrate that their decisions are based on an established legal doctrine. This integration into the existing doctrine legitimizes the decision and thus creates legal certainty through predictability.

Moreover, court decisions also contain references to texts that do not possess legal authority and therefore cannot be assigned such a function. Among the sources cited by courts, alongside statutory texts, are—for example—references to foreign law, scholarly sources, or even literary texts.

In view of this, the present study addresses the question of how and why courts cite. Using decisions from the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and the Supreme Court of Canada as examples, the interdisciplinary study proposes both philological and legal evaluation criteria for the empirical reconstruction of citation functions and furthermore adopts a comparative perspective on jurisdiction-related differences in citation practices in courts.

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À propos de l?auteur

Joy Steigler-Herms is a research associate in subproject B02, “How and Why Do Courts Cite? Citations and References in Judgments of the Federal Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Canada,” at the Collaborative Research Center 1385 “Law and Literature” at the University of Münster.

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3662719339
ISBN 13 
9783662719336
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
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