Abstract
The article discusses the doctrine of law contra legem and the issues of the boundaries of its practical application. The main objectives of the article are to define the development of law contra legem and to present its differences from the development of law extra legem, to analyze the possibility and permissible limits of applying law enforcement agencies to the doctrine of the development of law contra legem in case of a blatant contradiction of law and law. The author claims that the law enforcement of contra legem and contra legem have similarities, therefore, in order to distinguish them, it is proposed to distinguish between hard and soft types of law enforcement of contra legem. Based on the practice of the Republic of Armenia, the article provides examples of law enforcement contra legem, which are subjected to critical analysis.