A History of Natural Law

William M. R. Simpson is an Associate Professor at Ohio State University and a Research Fellow of the University of Oxford. He is the author of Hylomorphism (Cambridge, 2023) and co-editor of Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (2017). Justin Buckley Dyer is Dean of the School of Civic Leadership at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics (2022); C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law (2016); Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning (2013); and Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition (2012).

• Introduction William M. R. Simpson and Justin B. Dyer; 1. Natural law in Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics Susan Sauvé Meyer and Brad Inwood; 2. Natural law in the Roman world Jed W. Atkins; 3. Natural law in early Islam Karen Taliaferro; 4. Natural law in early scholasticism Jean Porter; 5. Natural law and eternal law in Aquinas Colleen McCluskey; 6. Natural law in the late middle ages Thomas Osborne; 7. Natural law in the school of Salamanca Thomas Izbicki; 8. Natural law in Grotius and Pufendorf Jonathan Price; 9. Natural law in Hobbes and Locke Diego Lucci; 10. Natural law and the American founding Justin Buckley Dyer and Vincent Phillip Muñoz; 11. Natural law and the neo-scholastic revival Romanus Cessario, OP; 12. The post-war natural law revival Candace Terman; 13. The African American natural law tradition Vincent W. Lloyd; 14. Natural law and contemporary ethics Matthew Shea; 15. The new natural law theory Melissa Moschella; 16. Natural law and the new Aristotelianism Daniel D. De Haan and William M. R. Simpson.