»The Natural Law of the Present and the Unavailability of Law. An Analysis of the Place of Natural Law thinking in Current Jurisprudence«: Natural law theory argues that principles, precepts, or entire supra-positive legal orders can be derived or recognized from reason or nature that provide a standard for just law. This long existing idea has been given too little attention in the recent past in German-language legal scholarship. This work therefore deals with the relevance of this theory and compares various attempts to justify it in terms of natural law.