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Philosophy

Distinguishing Natural Law from Legal Positivism in Judicial Reasoning

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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.

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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.