The natural law:
what it is. what it isn't. why it still matters.
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Santiago Legarre
Santiago Legarre is an Argentine public intellectual, law professor and natural law scholar.
He received his law degree in 1992 in Argentina, and then clerked for the Argentine Supreme Court. He earned a Master of Studies in legal research from Oxford University, under the tutelage of the natural law scholar, John Finnis. He also holds a PhD in political science from Universidad de Buenos Aires. While at Oxford he wrote a dissertation entitled "The Historical Background of the Police Power", published in 2007 by the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.
He began his academic career in 1995, teaching law at Universidad Austral. Professor Legarre moved to the Universidad Catolica de Argentina in 2007. He is an independent researcher at CONICET, the Argentine National Council for Research. He has written regularly for La Nación, a leading Argentine media outlet.
Legarre's academic interests include constitutional law and jurisprudence. His work has been published by major legal journals including the American Journal of Jurisprudence, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Jurisprudence: an International Journal of Legal and Political Thought, Louisiana Law Review, Tulane Law Review, Loyola Law Review, Journal of Civil Law Studies, Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law, Chinese Journal of International Law, and Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Journal of Law and Society. He also teaches a workshop on creative writing for law students.
He has lectured widely at US and international law schools on topics related to natural law, constitutional studies and comparative constitutional law.
FURTHER READING
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Santiago Legarre. A new natural law reading of the constitution. Louisiana Law Review, 2017-2018
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Santiago Legarre. Derivation of positive law from natural law revisited. American Journal of Jurisprudence, 2012
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Santiago Legarre. HLA Hart and the making of the new natural law theory. Jurisprudence, 2017
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Note. Justice Breyer: The Court's last natural lawyer? Harvard Law Review, March 2023
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Ralph McInerney. The principles of natural law. American Journal of Jursprudence, 1980
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David Novak. Does natural law need theology? First Things, November 2019
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Philip Soper. Some natural confusions about natural law. Michigan Law Review, 1992
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Kent Greenawalt. The natural duty to obey the law. Michigan Law Review, 1985
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Philip Soper. In Defense of Classical Natural Law in Legal Theory: Why Unjust Law is No Law at All. Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence
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Philip Soper. Making Sense of Modern Jurisprudence: The Paradox of Positivism and the Challenge for Natural Law. Creighton Law Review, 1988
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Philip Soper. Choosing a legal theory on moral grounds. Social Philosophy and Policy, 2009
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William H. Rooney. Why did american lawyers abandon natural law? First Things, October 2022