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| Introduction | |
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| The Dilemma of Legal Reasoning: Moral Evaluation or Description of the Law? | |
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| A Theory of Legal Reasoning | |
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| Legal Decision-Making and Evaluations | |
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| The Concept "Legal Decision-Making" | |
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| Why do the Lawyers Need Special Interpretation Methods? | |
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| Legal Knowledge? | |
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| Rationality of Moral Judgments | |
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| Cognitivism and Non-Cognitivism | |
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| Practical and Theoretical Meaning of Practical Statements | |
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| More About Theoretical Meaning of Practical Statements Prima-facie Moral Statements | |
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| Weighing and Balancing | |
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| Some Examples of the Role of Weighing in Moral Theories | |
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| Examples of Weighing in Theories of Justice | |
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| Support in Moral Reasoning | |
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| Rationality of Legal Reasoning | |
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| Support of Legal Reasoning. Introduction and an Example | |
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| Analysis of Support in Legal Reasoning | |
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| Legal Rationality and Legal Paradigm | |
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| The Ultimate Justification of Moral and Legal Reasoning | |
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| Coherence | |
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| Coherence, Correctness and Truth | |
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| Rational Discourse | |
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| Why Shall Legal Reasoning be Rational? | |
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| What is Valid Law? | |
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| What is a Valid Law? - Introductory Remarks | |
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| Law and Morality - On Natural Law | |
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| Law and Morality - Legal Positivism | |
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| More about Law and Morality | |
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| The Question of Existence of the Law. Legal Realism | |
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| Norms as a Component of Valid Law | |
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| More About External Validity of Legal System. Action as a Component of Valid Law | |
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| Fact and Values in the Law | |
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| One Right Answer to all Legal Questions? | |
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| The Doctrine of the Sources of the Law | |
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| Substantive Reasons and Authority Reasons. The Sources of the Law | |
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| Must-Sources, Should-Sources and May-Sources of the Law | |
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| Norms Concerning the Sources of the Law | |
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| Custom | |
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| Precedent | |
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| Legislative Preparatory Materials | |
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| Professional Juristic Literature | |
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| Foreign Laws | |
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| Draft Statutes and Formerly Valid Law | |
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| The Methods of Legal Reasoning | |
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| Reasoning Norms | |
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| Logical, Literal and Systematic Interpretation | |
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| Reduction, Restrictive Interpretation, Extensive Interpretation and Creation of New Norms | |
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| Conclusion by Analogy | |
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| Teleological Construction of Statutes | |
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| Solution of Collisions Between Legal Norms | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |