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Natural Law vs. Legal Positivism: Philosophical Foundations

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In 1945, German courts were asked to judge Nazi-era informers who had caused the deaths of fellow citizens by reporting them to the Gestapo. Legal positivists say those informers simply obeyed valid law, while natural lawyers argue that such 'laws' were so immoral they were never law at all.

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We call a law 'unjust' all the time—but does an unjust law even deserve the name 'law'? This question splits modern jurisprudence into two opposite camps.