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Classic Legal Theory

About Natural Law

Natural law, developed through such writers as Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas, is based
on the theory that law arises from “nature” or by beliefs accepted by people; it found some of its greatest proponents within the Catholic Church. In the natural law tradition, for a law to be a true law, it must comport with the values accepted by society.

"Legal Theory in Relation to Public Law," Craig Forcese et al in Public Law: Cases, Commentary and Analysis

Broadly speaking, theories within the natural law tradition emphasize an essential conceptual connection between law and morals. In response to the core jurisprudential question, ‘What is law?’, such theories elaborate a conceptual view that necessarily links (and subsumes) legal reason to moral reason, legal obligation to moral obligation, legal validity to moral validity, and so on.

“Natural Law Theory,” Roger Brownsword, in The New Oxford Companion to Law

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