… self-preservation is a Law of Nature, and that we cannot act other than for this end) that
self-defense can be a dictate of Natural Law, and will be what Natural Law mostly requires. To …

… opened the door to the use of force in self-defense against non-immediate threats.13 … the
right of self-defense is the natural law and that the natural law requires that self-defense only be …

… of the natural law right of self-defense has important … Although some modem scholars deny
that natural law exists, … sense, the natural law basis of the right to armed self-defense is part of …

… law to claims of self-defense. It is not my intention, I should add, to consider specific interpretations
of selfdefense. … " has natural law origins, many authorities on international law reject …

… This has important implications for both the law of self-defense as well as our image of
the problem of battered women. The law of self-defense, if I am right, is far from as settled or …

… While I no doubt gloss over the law/morality distinction more than … law to mirror morality.
Indeed, it is only after we understand the moral contours of self-defense that we can decide if law …

… the right we inherited from English and natural law."); see also Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain,
The Natural Law in the American Tradition , 79 FORDHAM L. Rev. 1513, 1523 (2011). …

… may be detected a tincture of natural law doctrine. The natural law element appears in the
reference to 'inherent rights' and the use of analogies from private law. In Le Droit des gens …

… Natural law was that part of the eternal law which man inferred through his own rational …
Human law, finally, was the application by man of the principles of natural law to worldly affairs.…

… of this article, when the right to act in self-defense accrues, and, perhaps more important, when
it ceases… law concepts of a nation's right to resort to military force in its self-defense. Next, …