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Looking Back at our 2024 Winter Fellowship
In praise of our 2024 Winter James Wilson Fellows -
Finishing My Law School Marathon
On December 14, 2023 I visited the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, surrounded by a small group of colleagues, friends, and family, for the culmination of a more than four year journey from law school through the bar exam. Judge Greg Katsas was kind enough to offer to swear me in to the D.C. […] -
Professor Hadley Arkes: “The Wages of Dobbs: And the Confusions of Conservative Jurisprudence”
In his article, The Wages of Dobbs: And the Confusions of Conservative Jurisprudence, written for the Summer 2023 issue of the Claremont Review of Books, Professor Hadley Arkes reflects on Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization and how the overturning of Roe is true to form for the last four decades of conservative jurisprudence. The conservative […] -
2023 UT and UVA Natural Law Jurisprudence Seminars
In these last couple of weeks of September, we were ecstatic to host our Natural Law Jurisprudence Seminars at the University of Texas Law School and the University of Virginia Law School. Though it is customary for us to host only one seminar per semester, the enthusiasm for this program was so great that we […] -
2023 UT and UVA Seminar Photos
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Legally Defining Real Religious Communities
Prof. Hadley Arkes's review of Prof. Mark Movsesian's article "Defining Religion in the Court." -
2023 James Wilson Fellowship
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
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”
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
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 […]