The decline of natural law : how American lawyers once used natural law and why they stopped / Stuart Banner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banner, Stuart, 1963- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural law.

Common law.

Religion and law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

In 'The Decline of Natural Law', Stuart Banner explores a fundamental change in the way American lawyers thought about the law. Until the late 19th century, lawyers understood the law in part as something found in nature, the way we think of scientific laws today. After the change, by contrast, lawyers understood the law as something entirely made by people, especially by judges. It explains the reasons for this change and how it affected the legal system.

Contents:

Cover

The Decline of Natural Law

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Before the Transition

1. The Law of Nature

2. The Common Law

Part II: Causes of the Transition

3. The Adoption of Written Constitutions

4. The Separation of Law and Religion

5. The Explosion in Law Publishing

6. The Two-​Sidedness of Natural Law

Part III: The Transition and After

7. The Decline of Natural Law and Custom

8. Substitutes for Natural Law

9. Echoes of Natural Law

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-755652-3

0-19-755650-7

0-19-755651-5

OCLC:

1198087548