Scientific versus heuristic legal reasoning
The sources of linguistic vagueness
Value pluralism and absence of a hierarchy of norms
Precedent and the 'no law' situation as sources of legal uncertainty
Legal reasoning : the interpretative stage
Vagueness and value pluralism in the primary materials of the EU legal order
The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice I : the available topoi
The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice II : the approach to precedent
The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice III : the cumulative approach
The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice IV : the in-built communautaire tendency of the cumulative approach
The legal reasoning of the Court of Justice V : the steadying factors.