Crowe on 'The Evolution of Natural Law'

Professor Jonathan Crowe of the University of Southern Queensland School of Law and Justice has published 'The Evolution of Natural Law'.  The paper appears as a chapter in the edited collection Research Handbook on Legal Evolution (edited by Wojciech Zaluski, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, and Adam Dyrda).  Here is the abstract:

"This chapter examines the evolution of natural law - not natural law ideas or theories, but natural law itself. The chapter begins by exploring how the normative inclinations by which humans identify the content of natural law are shaped and guided by social circumstances and practices. It then discusses two specific mechanisms by which social expressions of natural law evolve: communal norms and value commitments. I argue that these processes play a central role in the development of natural law and should be recognised as such within natural law theories."