Overruling Precedent

Abstract

The legal scholarship of Prof. G. Tedeschi is broad and comprehensive, encompassing all areas of the civil law and reaching into the public law as well. At its base, there lies a solid jurisprudential foundation, in the context of which Prof. Tedeschi has devoted considerable thought to the various issues of the theory of precedent. In gratitude to Prof. Tedeschi, my venerable teacher and dear friend, to whom I owe the greatest of debts, and who for me serves as both model and symbol, I would take this opportunity to consider one aspect of the doctrine of precedent – that of overruling precedent.