Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Re-reading the Classics -- The Relationship of Natural Law and Natural Rights: Organic, Contingent, or Logically Contradictory? -- Introduction: two fundamental questions -- Two diametrically opposed answers -- The conventional story -- The alternative story -- Conclusion -- References -- International Coercion and the Requirement of an International Rule of Law -- Introduction -- Defining the rule of law -- The international vs. the national realm -- An international rule of law -- Back to the basics: The relationship between law and coercive power -- The international rule of law reconsidered -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Jurisprudential Methodology -- The Subject Matter of Jurisprudence -- Introduction -- 'Law' -- 'Nature' -- Conclusion -- References -- Is 'Naturalised' Methodology in Legal Theory Helpful? -- Introduction -- The subject of legal theory -- Stages in the construction of analytical legal theory -- Conceptual analysis -- Methodological naturalism -- Concluding remarks: The usefulness of modest methodological naturalism -- References -- Part III Legal Reasoning and Objectivity -- Objectivity as Coherence in Practical Discourse -- Introduction -- Methodology: the bottom-up approach -- 'Meaning in use' based on Langacker's cognitive grammar -- Objectivity of law vs. objectivity in law -- Objectivity as 'legal argument' -- Conclusion -- References -- Court rulings -- Court of Justice of the European Union -- Poland -- Supreme Court of Poland -- Polish Constitutional Tribunal -- Supreme Administrative Court -- Courts of Appeal -- Voivodship Courts -- Part IV Judiciary, Legitimacy, Democracy -- Within Democracy's Reach? Revisiting Some Objections to Judge-made Law -- Introduction -- The foundations of the objection.

Providing context and limiting the scope of the objection -- Can judge-made law fit our constitutional design? (Re)interpreting constitutional and political doctrines -- Conclusion -- References -- Cases -- Slovenian Constitutional Court -- A New Trend in the Debate on Justifying Judicial Review: Considering the Benefits of Judicial Reasoning -- Introduction -- A procedural response to the institutional question -- Waldron's arguments against the judicial mode of moral reasoning -- The benefits of judicial decision-making in constitutional issues -- Conclusion -- References -- Cases -- Hungarian Constitutional Court -- Between Reflexivity and Effectiveness: Dilemmas of the Democratic Legitimacy of Constitutional Justice -- Introduction -- Transformation of the public sphere and the concept of legitimacy -- The difficulties of judicial supremacy: in search for a constitutional judge's legitimacy -- The deliberative turn in the theory of democracy -- Constitutionalism as good governance: towards output legitimacy and effectiveness -- Reflexivity as the missing link -- Two dimensions of reflexivity -- References -- Part V The Boundaries of Criminal Justice -- Shielding Criminal Justice from Politics -- Introduction -- Direct public involvement as a generator of punitiveness -- The benefits of shielding -- Unexplored consequences -- Conclusion -- References -- Introduction of Criminal Law Powers in Other Legal Procedures: A Convenient Bypass for Obtaining Evidence? -- Introduction -- Border powers -- The inviolability of dwellings and privacy and personality rights in the Constitution of Slovenia -- The Relationship between the State Border Control Act and the Criminal Procedure Act -- Conclusion -- References -- Legislation -- Cases -- Slovenia -- United States -- European Court of Human Rights.