Philosophy
Distinguishing Natural Law from Legal Positivism in Judicial Reasoning
Quick fact
In 1946, the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal implicitly rejected legal positivism: it held that Nazi laws so deeply violated conscience that they couldn't count as law, echoing the natural law tradition.
Why this is interesting
What makes a rule a law? Is it the authority behind it, or its moral worth? The answer changed what happened to Nazi war criminals after WWII.