History of legislative adoption and judicial application of legal analogy in foreign European criminal law: theoretical analysis and lessons for the future

The article examines how two interests, the ensuring of inviolability of civil liberty and the need for suppression of harmful acts, which legislature failed to foresee in advance and, therefore, include into legislation, have been competing in the history of legislative adoption and judicial application of legal analogy in foreign European criminal law. The findings suggest that it is required to effect both interests in mentioned legal practice with the fulfillment of principle of legality. The paper provides theoretical model to achieve this goal, and demonstrates historical examples of corresponding practice. Moreover, further continuation of the latter is suggested.