Introduction: The Central Question and Its Ramifications / Timothy Endicott, Hafsteinn Dan Kristjansson, and Sebastian Lewis
I. The Nature of Precedent
1. Precedent: The What, the Why, and the How / Larry Alexander
2. The Doctrine of Precedent and the Rule of Recognition / Grant Lamond
3. On the Nature of Stare Decisis / Sebastian Lewis
4. Why Precedent Works / Nicholas W. Barber
5. Precedent and Legal Creep: A Cause for Concern? / Adam Rigoni
6. Elements of Precedent / Hafsteinn Dan Kristjánsson
7. Precedent and Paradigm: Thomas Kuhn on Science and the Common Law / Leah Trueblood and Peter Hatfield
8. Supplementing Defeasible Rules / Barbara Baum Levenbook
II. Precedent and Legal Argument
9. The Uses of Precedent and Legal Argument / Claudio Michelon
10. The 'Expiscation' of Legal Principles / Luís Duarte d'Almeida
11. The Hermeneutics of Legal Precedent / Ralf Poscher
12. Do Precedents Constrain Reasoning? / Emily Sherwin
13. Precedent, Exemplarity, and Imitation / Amalia Amaya
14. How Does Precedent Constrain? / John Horty
15. Precedent, Contest, and Law: A Logocratic Agony That Fits / Scott Brewer
16. Dog Law: On the Logistical Structure (or Lack Thereof) of Distinguishing / Bruno Celano
17. Analogical Reasoning and Precedent / Cass R Sunstein
18. Precedent and Similarity / Frederick Schauer and Barbara A Spellman
III. Precedent and Legal Theory
19. Presumptive Reasons and State Decisis / Andrei Marmor
20. An Artefactual Theory of Precedent / Kenneth M Ehrenberg
21. The Gravitational Force of Future Decisions / Nina Varsava
22. A Precedent-based Critique of Legal Positivism / John CP Goldberg and Bejamin C Zipursky
23. Realism About Precedent / Brian Leiter
24. Precedent and the Source-Norm Distinction / Fabio Perin Shecaira
25. Precedent as Generalized Second-Order Reasons / Stephen Perry
26. Reasons Holism and the Shared View of Precedent / Torben Spaak
IV. Precedent and Judicial Power
27. Should Courts Follow Mistaken Statutory Precedents? / Dale Smith
28. Precedent and Law-Making Powers / Mikolaj Barczentewicz
29. Shaping Our Relationship: The Power to Set a Precedent / Maris Köpcke
30. Constitutionally Erroneous Precedent as a Window on Judicial Law-Making in the US Legal System / Richard H Fallon Jr.
31. Statutory Interpretation and Binding Precedents in the Civil Law Tradition / Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña
32. The Oracles of Codification: Informal Authority in Statutory Interpretation / Nils jansen
33. Predictability and Precedent / Hillary Nye
V. Effects of Precedent in Morality and Law
34. Precedent Slippery Slopes / Katharina Stevens
35. 'A Previous Instance': Yamamoto and the Uses of Precedent / Jeremy Waldron
36. Consistency in Administrative Law / Adam Perry
37. Escaping Precedent: Inter-Legality and Change in Rules of Recognition / Nicole Roughan
38. Hoary Precedents / Matthew H Kramer
39. Partnering with the Dead to Govern the Unborn: the Value of Precedent in Judicial Reasoning / Heidi M Hurd
40. Emotions and Precedent / Emily Kidd White