The Role of International Human Rights Law and Comprehensive Historical Methodology in Resolving the Conflict between Positive Law and Natural Law Theories
An age-old dispute persists over a fundamental problem of jurisprudence: what makes law law at its greatest level of generality ("Law").' There have been many schools of thought on the subject. Two of the major ones integral to solving the problem-positive law and natural law theories-have been locked in a battle royal for centuries.2 Disengaging and reconciling them so as to inform the concept of Law is this article's central agenda.