Treatise on Law

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

Grotius grounds the law of nations in natural law and asks when war is just and how it must be fought. Campbell's translation, with an introduction on Grotius and his influence on international law.

Hugo Grotius

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