Its features are normative, qualificative, operable, inheritable and changeable. 它的特征是规范性、限定性、可操作性、传承性和变迁性。
And "normative ethics" is characterized by its peremptoriness, that is, rules are laid down through legislation to set one's goal and norms of behavior. “规范伦理”的特性在于它的强制性，即通过理性的立法自身立定规则，规定行为的目标和行为的活动方式。
In the United States and the rest of the Anglophone world, “philosophy of law” is a subdiscipline of philosophy, a special branch of what is nowadays frequently called “normative theory. 在美国或是其他英语国家，“法哲学”是哲学的一个子学科，也就是我们现在称之为“规范理论”的那个哲学分支。