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  • Legally Defining Real Religious Communities

    by James Wilson Institute on September 21, 2023
    Prof. Hadley Arkes's eview of Prof/ Mark Movsesian's article "Defining Religion in the Court."
  • 2023 James Wilson Fellowship

    by James Wilson Institute on September 1, 2023
    In early August of 2023, we convened our annual James Wilson Fellowship. The class and the Fellowship can certainly be counted among our best yet. We share this report with you as a way of celebrating our 2023 Class.  Early this spring, we selected a group of outstanding young lawyers and law students to comprise our tenth class of Fellows. […]
  • Equal Protection for All – Josh Craddock ’19 on the Overturn of Roe

    by James Wilson Institute on June 28, 2023
    JWI Affiliated Scholar Josh Craddock ’19 speaks on the momentous overturning of Roe v. Wade, and what are the next steps for the Pro-Life movement in ensuring the Equal Protection of the pre-born.
  • “Prof. Hadley Arkes Appearance on the Rules for Retrogades Podcast”

    by James Wilson Institute on May 27, 2023
    Professor Hadley Arkes recently appeared on Timothy J. Gordon’s “Rules for Retrogrades” podcast to discuss his new book Mere Natural Law and the natural law principles he has advocated for decades. The two enjoyed a wide-ranging and extensive conversation. The full discussion can be found here.
  • “Hadley Arkes Addresses the Moral Reticence of Judicial Conservatism”- Gerard Bradley in the National Catholic Register

    by James Wilson Institute on May 17, 2023
    In this article for the National Catholic Register, Prof. Gerard Bradley discusses the points made by Prof. Hadley Arkes in his new book Mere Natural Law. Prof. Bradley emphasizes how the current textualist strain of originalism, which predominates in the conservative legal ecosystem, has been ineffective at substantively countering the progressive moral framework, advancing no […]
  • “Mere Natural Law” – Hadley Arkes on the Acton Line Podcast

    by James Wilson Institute on May 11, 2023
    JWI Founder & Director Hadley Arkes appeared on the Acton Line Podcast with Dan Hugger, Librarian and Research Fellow of the Acton Institute. They discussed Prof. Arkes’s new book Mere Natural Law in a wide-ranging interview. You’re invited to listen!
  • “Garland’s Refusal to Protect Supreme Court Justices Endangers the Country” -Hadley Arkes in The Federalist

    by James Wilson Institute on May 11, 2023
    In a piece for The Federalist, Professor Hadley Arkes criticizes Attorney General Merrick Garland’s evasion of his duty to protect Supreme Court justices from ongoing verbal harassment. Although it is a federal crime to picket outside a justice’s residence, protestors continue to congregate around the homes of Justices Alito and Kavanaugh with impunity. AG Garland […]
  • Mere Natural Law Book Launch – May 2

    by James Wilson Institute on May 5, 2023
    We were pleased to host a special evening in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the release of Prof. Arkes’s latest book, Mere Natural Law. Prof. Arkes presented the core argument of his book and then sat down for a fireside chat with Judge Neomi Rao of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The […]
  • “A Crisis in Messaging: The Pro-Life Movement at the Federal Level with Jon Schweppe and Garrett Snedeker”

    by James Wilson Institute on May 5, 2023
    Jon Schweppe of the American Principles Project and Garrett Snedeker sit down to discuss the confusion in the pro-life movement among conservative politicians, particularly at the Federal level. While some have taken up the standard of national restrictions on abortion, others have taken the line simply that the Dobbs decision returned the choice to the […]
  • Leadership & the Law Awards Dinner 2023 – Honoring Judge Janice Rogers Brown

    by James Wilson Institute on April 25, 2023
    We had the pleasure of celebrating the jurisprudence and life’s work of former Judge Janice Rogers Brown this spring with our second Leadership & the Law Award. It was a wonderful evening to spend with friends and colleagues, commemorating one of our nation’s finest legal minds and bravest leaders. Judge Brown is the second recipient […]
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