Natural law theorists from St. Thomas Aquinas to the present have frequently been statists.
Chartier contends that the state is not needed to maintain social order, and that natural law theorists need not be attached to it in preference to other means of maintaining order, including custom, convention, and various voluntary arrangements.
Adolf Bernhard Philipp Reinach (23 December 1883 - 16 November 1917) was a German philosopher, phenomenologist (from the Munich phenomenology school) and law theorist.
This view is strongly associated with natural law theorists, including John Finnis and Lon Fuller.
Merely placing a fence around land rather than using the land enclosed would not bring property into being according to most natural law theorists.
The full-time Fletcher faculty comprises economists, international law theorists, historians, and political scientists who hold the academic ranks of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, and lecturer.
This can be taken as a statement that is similar to the views of modern natural law theorists.
Identifying a particular theorist as a positivist or a natural law theorist sometimes involves matters of emphasis and degree, and the particular influences on the theorist's work.
Natural law theorists and others have thusly challenged many man-made laws over the years, on the grounds that they conflict with what the challengers assert to be natural, or divine, laws.
Frank Van Dun (born February 22, 1947, Antwerp) is a Belgian law philosopher and libertarian natural law theorist.