# John Finnis Australian-British legal philosopher (b. 1940), Oxford; author of *Natural Law and [[Natural Rights]]* (1980), the founding work of **New Natural Law theory** — a secular-reasoned restatement of [[Thomas Aquinas]] used across the religious right's law-and-bioethics arguments. Doctoral supervisor of [[Neil Gorsuch]]. > [!info] Stub — created 2026-06-06 as a link target for the elite-theory cluster buildout. Expand.