Courts
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“Garland’s Refusal to Protect Supreme Court Justices Endangers the Country” -Hadley Arkes in The Federalist
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 […] -
Leadership & the Law Awards Dinner 2023 – Honoring Judge Janice Rogers Brown
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 […] -
My Warm Up for Judge Duncan—and What Next for Stanford?–Hadley Arkes in Anchoring Truths
I supplied a rehearsal, or perhaps merely, a gesture of foreplay, for the spectacle that was loosed upon my friend Kyle Duncan recently at the law school at Stanford. I was invited to do a lecture there four years ago by the Federalist Society. And of course a campaign was launched by the Left to cancel […] -
Who Deserves Scalia’s Mantle?–Garrett Snedeker in The American Conservative
With Who Deserves Scalia’s Mantle?, JWI Deputy Director Garrett Snedeker in the March/April 2023 issue of The American Conservative considers whether a live debate on the subject of administrative law is a microcosm for the debate over the future of the conservative legal movement. And claiming the mantle of Justice Scalia is key for both […] -
Puzzle of 303 Creative –Hadley Arkes in First Things
In a piece for First Things, JWI Founder & Director Hadley Arkes analyzes how the issues of speech and religion have proven a challenge to the Court for years. should be clear that neither “coerced speech” nor “religious belief” can supply the ground of the judgment. At oral argument, he thought that Justices Kavanaugh and […] -
“Positivism Only?: Privileges or Immunities in The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment” – Garrett Snedeker in Anchoring Truths
JWI Deputy Director Garrett Snedeker offers his thoughts on Profs. Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick’s recent book, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. He discusses their positivist approach to interpreting the Privileges or Immunities Clause and questions whether natural law reasoning can be divorced from the recognition of unenumerated constitutional rights. We’ve included a […] -
After Dobbs & the Crisis of the House Divided–JWI Founder & Director Hadley Arkes
On October 28, 2022, Prof. Hadley Arkes, JWI Founder and Director, delivered the public address to kick off our Senior Seminar. The talk, “After Dobbs & The Crisis of the House Divided,” centered on the recent Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, on abortion and the split among pro-life conservatives that it […] -
VIDEO: Roe Changed the Culture, Was Dobbs the Cure? – Hadley Arkes at Notre Dame
On September 23, 2022, Hadley Arkes delivered a lecture at the University of Notre Dame titled “Roe Changed the Culture, Was Dobbs the Cure?”. The lecture was part of the James Wilson Institute’s Seminar on Natural Law at Notre Dame that weekend. We’d like to thank the Notre Dame Right to Life, the Center for […] -
“Liberty To Do What?” — Hadley Arkes at The Human Life Review
On June 1, 2022, James Wilson Institute Founder and Director Hadley Arkes joined First Things editor Rusty Reno and City College of New York’s George McKenna for a panel hosted by The Human Life Review. They first discussed the potential conflict between liberty and freedom as written in McKenna’s essay, “The Odd Couple: Freedom and […] -
“Hunt down the Supreme Court leaker” — Josh Hammer in The Spectator World
In “Hunt down the Supreme Court leaker,” 2021 James Wilson Fellow Josh Hammer discusses the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. He explains that, while the decision will likely help end abortion in America, no one knows who leaked Roberts’ opinion. If no one identifies the leaker, […]