Schultz offers a timely book on the importance, history, and uses of legal precedent, especially in Supreme Court cases. This book is especially timely because Schultz uses the Supreme Court nominations of Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to discuss the shift in precedent during the Roberts Court, especially regarding Roe v Wade prior to its post-publication overturning in June 2022. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduates and general readers. -- T.T. Gibson, CHOICE Students and scholars alike will find a trove of materials on how the US Supreme Court has treated its own precedents over the past 230 years. Never has this been more important than today, as a newly empowered conservative majority is poised to reconsider the rulings of the past. -- Daniel Farber, University of California, Berkeley, US The book clearly explains genesis and the role of legal precedent in the construction of American law. What is extremely interesting, that David Schulz in a very convenient way shows us how the precedents are set, how they are modified, and what is a role of judges, especially of chief justices, for the ideology and the content of the courts decisions. -- Dalia Vasarien, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania and The Supreme Court of Lithuania
