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02875aam a2200361 i 4500 001 A8819836CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210617010040 008 200921s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020043255 020 $a 0197556493 020 $a 9780197556498 035 $a (OCoLC)1198085930 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a K450 $b .B36 2021 100 1 $a Banner, Stuart, $d 1963- $e author. 245 14 $a The decline of natural law : $b how American lawyers once used natural law and why they stopped / $c Stuart Banner. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a vii, 255 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The law of nature -- The common law -- The adoption of written constitutions -- The separation of law and religion -- The explosion in law publishing -- The two-sidedness of natural law -- The decline of natural law and custom -- Substitutes for natural law -- Echoes of natural law. 520 $a "Before the late 19th century, natural law played an important role in the American legal system. Lawyers routinely used it in their arguments and judges often relied upon it in their opinions. Today, by contrast, natural law plays virtually no role in the legal system. When natural law was part of a lawyer's toolkit, lawyers thought of judges as finders of the law, but when natural law dropped out of the legal system, lawyers began thinking of judges as makers of the law instead. The Decline of Natural Law explores the causes and consequences of this change. It discusses the ways in which lawyers used natural law and why the concept seemed reasonable to them. It examines several long-term trends in legal thought that weakened the position of natural law, including the use of written constitutions, the gradual separation of the spheres of law and religion, the rapid growth of legal publishing, and the position of natural law in some of the 19th century's most contested legal issues. It describes the profession's rejection of natural law in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And it explores the ways in which the legal system responded to the absence of natural law"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Natural law. 650 0 $a Common law. 650 0 $a Religion and law. 650 7 $a Common law. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00869795 650 7 $a Natural law. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034366 650 7 $a Religion and law. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093835 776 08 $i Online version: $a Banner, Stuart. $t The decline of natural law $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021? $z 9780197556511 $w (DLC) 2020043256 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526013815.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A8819836CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search