LAWS 3908 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Liberty Issue, Hugo Grotius, Good Governance

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Discuss classical natural law theory by undertaking the following tasks, explain how natural law was generally understood by greco-roman philosophers (plato, aristotle, cicero, plato. Just law has an essential and purified nature that (certain) humans can decipher through reason and logic: aristotle. Issue with this case: problem of when a law can be considered valid, and whether an immoral statute can properly be called law: explain why lon fuller (natural law theory) would agree or disagree with the west. Hart (legal positivist theory) would agree or disagree with the. West ger(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:272)ourt"s de(cid:272)isio(cid:374: regardless of whether we think this nazi law is moral or immoral, it was in force and had. Focus on extra-legal, informal, unspoken, social, cultural and psychological factors are affecting judicial decisions. Judges conform real-life problems that require solutions in the present, and no simple rule finding will suffice: discuss the main characteristics/elements/arguments for each of the following legal theories, modern natural law theory.