Acknowledgements

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List of Contributors

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Introduction: Differences amid Uniformity: Some Reflections on Legal Cultures

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Part I The Concept, Rule and Interpretation of Law / Andrei Marmor

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What Exactly Is the Problem with Judicial Supremacy? The Rule of Law, Moral Legitimacy, and the Construction of Constitutional Law / Andrei Marmor

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Interpretation in International Law and International Rule of Law - Any Lesson for jurisprudence? / Kenneth Einar Himma

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Part II Adjudication, Democracy, the Rule of Law / Miodrag Jovanovic

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Judicial Creativity / Miodrag Jovanovic

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Democracy and Living Constitutionalism / Dragoljub Popovic

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Politics of Constitutional Courts in Democratizing Regimes / Wil J. Waluchow

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Part III Legal Hermeneutics and jurisprudence / Tanasije Marinkovic

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View on the History of Topics, Rhetoric and jurisprudence From Topoi and Legal Topoi to Regulae Iuris and Codical Topoi Catalogues, and From Aristotle, Cicero and Justinian to Dudley Field, Ahmet Cevdet (Jawdet) Pasha or Valtazar Bogi[š]ic / Tanasije Marinkovic

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Emilio Bettis Legal Hermeneutics: Between a Theory of Legal Interpretation and a Hermeneutical Theory of Law / Jasminka Hasanbegovic

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Part IV Various Aspects of Judicial Reasoning / Bojan Spaic

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Antinomies between Implicit Legal Principles: A Solution to the Total-Partial Antinomy / Bojan Spaic

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Between Law and (In)Justice: Strategic Manoeuvring with A Simili and A Contrario Arguments in Judicial Reasoning / Luka Burazin

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On Legal Gaps and New Interpretative Techniques of the Court's Decision-Making / Ana Dimi[š]kovska

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