These open response writing prompts can be used as in-class reflections or as assessment activities.

a. Do you think that moral law is higher than the laws of society? Is there a moral law which we should obey, no matter what the laws of society say? Explain your answer. 

b. Hugo Grotius was a Dutch jurist who theorized that there is a common law among nations which is valid even in times of war. Do you think there are common laws among nations? Explain your answer. 

c. Natural law theory contains the idea that the way things are in nature are the way they ought to be. Do you think this is true or false? Can the way things are by nature provide the basis for knowing how they ought to be? Explain your answer and give an example.