About Us
About the Natural Law Institute
The Natural Law Institute researches, teaches, and applies the logic and science of legal decidability — making conflict measurable, judgeable, and settleable under law.
Our public work today centers on lawfare services: case strategy, record analysis, and court-ready briefing for litigants, counsel, and courts. That applied practice rests on decades of research into human cooperation, constitutional order, and the science of lawful adjudication.
What we do
| Division | Role |
|---|---|
| Lawfare Services | Case strategy, briefing, amicus work, and dispute architecture for live matters — learn more |
| NLI Academy | Structured courseware and training — naturallawinstitute.org |
| Research & Foundations | The theoretical corpus, reform framework, books, and historical mission of the Institute — explore |
Leadership
Curt Doolittle — CEO & Founding Fellow
Philosopher and social scientist; architect of the natural-law framework and the Institute’s research program.
Brandon Hayes — President
Manages relations, operations, and public contact for the Institute.
A brief history
The Institute’s research program began in the 1990s with a single aim: a fully commensurable, value-neutral language and logic of ethics, law, and politics. By 2012 the work had produced algorithmic natural law and a basis for constitutional analysis; by 2017–2018 the core grammars and major volumes were complete.
That research now supports the Institute’s applied lawfare work, academy, and publications — not as abstract theory alone, but as the foundation for deciding disputes under law.
Truth is enough
The Institute holds that public conflict can be resolved when institutions are forced to decide on truthful records and stated rules — not on narrative, procedure, or institutional habit.
Truth is enough.