Maverick Manufacturing creates dress slacks for men and women. Maverick decides to expand its business by opening a new manufacturing plant in China to create slacks that will be sold in China as well as in the United States. Maverick will hire both American and Chinese employees to work in the plant. Maverick's upper management thinks that the same laws that protect U.S. employees should apply to the Chinese workers as well. Maverick's upper management subscribes to the:

a) natural law school of legal thought.
b) historical school of legal thought.
c) legal positivism school of legal thought.
d) legal realism school of legal thought.