The non-cognitive character of the judicial establishment of facts -- Descriptivity, normativity, and ascriptivity : a contribution to the subsumption/subordination debate -- The mental transformation of facts into a case -- On judicial ascertainment of facts -- The judicial process : a contribution to its philosophical understanding -- Law as history? -- Institutions as systems -- European integration and the uniqueness of national legal cultures -- Judicial reproduction of the law in an autopoetical system? -- Reflections on law and on its inner morality -- Macrosociological theories of law : from the "lawyer`s world concept" to a social science conception of law -- From legal customs to legal folkways -- Logic of law and judicial activity : a gap between ideals, reality and future perspectives -- The fact and its approach in philosophy and in law -- The place of law in Lukács`s Ontology -- The law and its limits -- Hans Kelsens Rechtsanwendugslehre -- Leibniz und die Frage der rechtlichen Systembildung -- Paradigms of legal thinking -- Patterns of thought, patterns of law -- Measuring through patterning in law : development of an idea in Europe -- Marxian legal theory