# kaal:claim:2831040-017

**Claim.** The doctrine of stare decisis and judicial adherence to precedent decided decades or centuries earlier mean the court system is structurally a suspension system for rapid change, built to supply stability and predictability rather than speed.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- common law court systems bound by precedent

**Source quote.**

> The doctrine of stare decisis and the courts' adherence to and application of precedent decided decades or centuries earlier illustrate that the court system is actually structured as a suspension system for rapid change in order to provide stability and predictability.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Dynamic Regulation for Innovation* (2016), IV.1 Remedying the Pacing Problem, page 16

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation for Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2831040

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `de5156f14f44a5753cab55b6c4b03049eda58a143b99e08ef427aee1d261e1bf` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202016%20-%20Dynamic%20Regulation%20for%20Innovation.pdf

**Failure mode.** courts as suspension system for change  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, institutional-design

**Keywords.** stare-decisis, precedent, courts, institutional-design

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