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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: Oxford Public International Law - Natural Law and Justice. | Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Liberty University - Scholars Crossing - On the Indispensability of Natural Law on the Moral Theory of the State (PDF). | Jan 31, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: City University of New York - Queensborough Community College - Problems with Natural Law. | Sep 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: PhilArchive - Three Concepts of Natural Law (PDF). | May 09, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History - The Natural Law ? Its Nature, Scope and Sanction (PDF). | Feb 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CUA Law Scholarship Repository - Lex Naturalis and Jus Naturale. | Oct 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Libertarianism.org - Natural Law. | Sep 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: NDLScholarship - Natural Law Theory: Its past and its present. | Jul 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mises Institute - Introduction to Natural Law. | May 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Michigan - The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert - Law of nature, or Natural law. | Apr 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Civil Disobedience and Natural Law. | Jan 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Value Comparability in Natural Law Ethics: A Defense. | Dec 29, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi - Philosophy - Natural Law. | Sep 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Corporate Finance Institute - Natural Law. | Jul 11, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University - Natural Law. | May 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Natural Law. | Feb 24, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Natural Law Theory. | Jan 13, 2023 | ||
| Added mention of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. | Sep 30, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Aug 13, 2019 | ||
| Changed "of" to "or" in the definition of natural law quoted from Thomas Hobbes. | Feb 16, 2010 | ||
| Added image of Aristotle. | Feb 16, 2010 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 21, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Natural Law Theories. | Dec 17, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Natural Law. | Dec 17, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Natural Law. | Dec 17, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Jul 11, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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