Outside Back Cover 27.3 Printed in Canada by Preney Print & Litho Inc. on recycled paper. In Volume 28, Number 1 (2008) Forthcoming On-line, Open-access at: Special Issue on Models for the Analysis of Legal Argumentation Weighing and Balancing the Justification of Judicial Decisions Eveline Feteris David Godden & Douglas Walton In View of an Express Regulation: Considering the Scope and Soundness of A Contrario Reasoning Topics in Contemporary Legal Argumentation: Some Remarks on the Topical Nature of Legal Argumentation in the Continental Law Tradition Guenther Kreutzbauer www.informallogic.ca Defeasibility in Judicial Opinion: Legal or Procedural? Henrike Jansen Damiano Canale & Giovanni Tuzet On the Contrary: Inferential Analysis and Ontological Assumptions of the A Contrario Argument John Woods Beyond Reasonable Doubt: An Abductive Dilemma in Criminal Law Edited by Eveline Feteris