This article considers HLA Hart’s influence in the making of John Finnis’s book Natural Law and Natural Rights. In the style of an intellectual biography it traces the history of the interaction between the two Oxford legal ...

The thesis that there is a universal law working as a sort of supreme standard for morality has long been part of a strategy to ground the claim of objectivity. If it were possible to prove that ...

Este trabajo se centra, de un modo crítico, en el uso de la palabra “iusnaturalismo” que hace Cristina Redondo en su libro Positivismo jurídico “interno”, prestando especial atención a la relevancia práctica de dicho uso. ...

Assuming the existence of nuclear weapons as a reality of international relations that cannot simply be wished away, this essay explores what HLA Hart calls the ‘minimum content of natural law’ as applied to international ...

This paper tries to explain what comparative constitutional law is and takes the US legal practice as an example.The presence of comparative analysis is considered both in the academic arena and in the case law of the US ...

This article first explains what natural law is not; secondly, it explains what is natural law; finally, and hopefully more originally, the article explores two different ways in which natural law is relevant in constitutional ...

Abstract: This article considers HLA Hart’s influence in the making of John Finnis’s book Natural Law and Natural Rights. In the style of an intellectual biography it traces the history of the interaction between the two ...