NATURAL JUSTICE

Aquinas on Biblical law, its purposes and relation with natural law; Torah as exterior / New Testament as interior - 2019, 183, 118
Aquinas on development of natural law by addition, substraction and changes in application by interpretation or dispensation - 2019, 183, 134
Aquinas on how human law can be judged in terms of natural law, by examples in the Torah & by custom that circumvents unjust law - 2019, 183, 155
Aquinas on natural law: 'primary' precepts always apply, 'secondary' precepts are deduced - 2019, 183, 118
Aquinas on the role of lawgivers to formulate & apply natural law with prudence - 2019, 183, 155
Aquinas sees human law as applying natural law to particular historical situations; it develops to do this better - 2019, 183, 118
Aquinas taught that natural law is an act of reason & we can formulate what is good / humanizing - 2019, 183, 118
Augustine on law & justice; importance to Western Christian thought & natural law theory - 2020, 185, 140
Blackstone, Stoics & St. Paul on natural law & importance to rebuilding of legal system in post-war Europe - 2014, 172, 4
Buddhist views of international law based on natural law theory - 2010, 164, 3
Catholic & Protestant differing approaches to natural law - 2016, 176, 59
certiorari, the prerogative writ of - 1969, 25, 170
Christian concerns over access to justice for the poor in England - 2013, 170, 19
Christian views for and against modern human rights law: problems of aggressive individualism - 2013, 170, 19
civil and common law principles compared - 1981, 68/69, 9
'constitutional' changes in Divine and natural law due to the Fall & atonement; matrimony used to illustrate - 2019, 183, 134
critical natural law theory, law and justice; objective morality (how to find and apply?) - 2020, 184, 7
development of Divine and natural law e.g. defining usury; proactive unfolding e.g. capital punishment; divine pedagogy e.g. perhaps polygamy - 2019, 183, 118
development of natural law with regard to slavery and capital punishment - 2019, 183, 192
development of the Torah's laws on slavery, as an exemplar of applying & unfolding natural law though salvation history - 2019, 183, 155
early Protestants, e.g. Calvin, recognised natural law as important as a basis for positive law & theology - 2019, 179, 117
experience is the main way people learn what natural is - 2020, 184, 25
Hindu law, use of natural law in - 2010, 164, 45
how law works: is it based on sovereignty / power (Hobbes) or justice / natural law (Grotius)? - 2020, 184, 7
human rights based in natural law: Catholic & Protestant approaches & objections to; exemplified by Finnis and Wolterstorff amongst others - 2017, 179, 135
human rights, origins & development of the idea of; links to Christianity and the image of God - 2017, 179, 135
Jewish concepts of law, natural law and salvation - 2010, 164, 63
Locke's theory of natural rights & WWII experiences make human rights a way to hold governments to account - 2014, 173, 129
Luther thought natural law most clearly expressed in Decalogue but also revealed through reason and conscience - 2017, 178, 6
Luther's view that God's natural law set at creation provides foundation for all positive law and public morality - 2017, 178, 6
magistrate's role in elaborating & enforcing natural law through positive law applied equitably (according to Luther) - 2017, 178, 6
natural justice as part of virtues based accounts of rule of law - 2015, 174, 5
natural law assumed in both Roman and Canon law; posits a close connection between law & morality - 2019, 179, 117
natural law in Roman legal system & the Bible; Augustine's analysis of both - 2020, 185, 140
natural law today & human rights inadequacies - 2020, 185, 140
Norman Anderson: seeking to understand natural law - 2009, 163, 110
objective moral order, difficulties of finding this when historical perspectives shift - 2020, 185, 140
Opderbeck, David: an account of natural law requiring God as source of objective goodness - 2022, 189, 157
principles reviewed - 1969, 25, 170
Protestant England (early) saw natural law (& Christianity) as a legitimate source of common law - 2019, 179, 117
rabbinical dismissals: no judicial review available when religion involved - 1991, 110/111, 88
religious freedom, Jew not available to attend hearing on a holy day - 1979, 60/61, 61
suicide as a crime: Dyer's argument from natural law etc - 2018, 180, 38
trade union rules, ultra vires where arbitrary - 1971, 30, 29
Germany
Böckenförde: why secular law should not be grounded in natural law - 2021, 186, 10
Scotland
Stair (Viscount): the law of Scotland and it's basis in godly Natural Law - 2012, 169, 189
Stair's Institutions: philosophical, theological, scriptural and natural law principles on which Scottish law is built - 2012, 169, 189
Wales
legal sub-committee of Church in Wales, system of seeking legal advice may in some cases conflict with natural justice - 2017, 179, 171

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