The Rights of War and Peace

Cicero's dialogue on true law as right reason in agreement with nature, binding on all peoples at all times. Barham's translation of the text that carried Stoic natural law into the Roman and Christian tradition.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Questions 90 to 97 of the Summa Theologica, where Aquinas defines law and distinguishes eternal, natural, human and divine law. The classic statement of natural law theory, in the English Dominican translation.

Thomas Aquinas

A clear account of the debate between natural law and legal positivism, from Aquinas and Finnis to Hart and Raz, applied to how courts read a written constitution.

Oran Doyle

A comparative study of how Han Feizi, Hobbes and Habermas relate positive law to natural law, and what that means for legitimacy, rights and global justice today.

Xunwu Chen