Natural Law for Lawyers

About this book

In the chaos of legal chatter how can we know what is right? J. Budziszewski provides a clear brief and practical introduction to a tradition which is mostly ignored in law school but was once the foundation of legal education and is presently enjoying a renaissance: the Natural Law. At the root of this tradition is the idea that the legislative decrees of governments depend on a higher law for their authority - a law human beings discover rather than enact but whose foundational principles we "cant not know."