Abstract:In this dissertation I present a theory about the nature of law that is rooted in the natural law tradition, and I defend that theory against objections or challenges to it from the tradition of legal positivism. This dissertation demonstrates that the best articulation of a natural law theory of law more is explanatorily fruitful and at least as descriptively accurate as the best versions of legal positivism.
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