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    Challenges→Natural law theory of law is approximated by Dworkin's account of law and adjudication, both in frontier cases like Nuremberg and in ordinary legal reasoning.

    This distinction means Dworkin's 'law as integrity' is a sophisticated positivism about particular legal systems, not natural law theory.

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    • 1.Dworkin grounds law in actual legal system practices and conventions, not transcendent moral truths, which defines positivism.
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    • 2.Integrity as 'fit with existing law' prioritizes coherence within a specific system over universal moral principles.
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    • 3.Dworkin rejects natural law's claim that unjust laws aren't truly law, instead evaluating legitimacy within each system.
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    • 1.Integrity requires judges to interpret law through best moral principles, making it fundamentally normative-ethical theory.
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    • 2.Dworkin explicitly denies positivism's fact/value separation; he insists law requires moral judgment, distinguishing him from positivists.
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    • 3.Integrity's community-based moral reading resembles natural law's appeal to higher principles, not positivism's descriptive neutrality.
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