Natural Law and the Nature of Law: A Response to Commentators

Abstract

I am grateful to the Executive Committee of the Australasian Society of LegalPhilosophy for choosing Natural Law and the Nature of Law as the subject of thisyear’s book symposium.1 And, most of all, I would like to thank the threecommentators for reading my book and providing such rich, generous and thoughtprovoking responses. There is no scope here to do full justice to the depth of their comments, and some interesting points will inevitably be left undiscussed. My aim, however, is to treat their remarks as a series of invitations that I will do my best to accept, rather than decline