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CONTRA LEGEM ЈУДИЦИРАЊЕ – ПАНДОРИНА КУТИЈА ПРАВНЕ ХЕРМЕНЕУТИКЕ
CONTRA LEGEM DECISION MAKING – THE PANDORA’S BOX OF LEGAL HERMENEUTICS

Author(s): Saša B. Bovan
Subject(s): Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду
Keywords: The movement of free law (la libre recherche du droit, Freirechtsbewegung); Freedom as a method of interpretation of law; Contra legem decision making; Radbruch's formula;

Summary/Abstract: The author examines the relation between the reality of contra legem decision making and the necessity for a methodical articulation of this form of judicial work. Contra legem decision making is analyzed as a method of the least painful and the most rational dealing with the value based discrepancies, which derive from the instances of relatively similar social relations being regulated differently. The author offers examples of the contra legem decision making of the Supreme Cassation Court of Serbia.

  • Issue Year: 60/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 95-116
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Serbian