Articles tagged as COVID-19
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“A Better Alternative to State Bankruptcy or Default”: John Baker and Robert Miller in the Wall Street Journal
In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, scholars John Baker and Robert Miller discuss the prospect of state bankruptcies during the Covid-19 pandemic. They discuss state sovereignty with respect to the eleventh amendment and argue that allowing states to declare bankruptcy fundamentally contradicts American federalism. States have always struggled with debt and have […] -
Prof. Arkes on COVID-19 and Limits to Authority
When the news came out that a panel of the 6th Circuit weighed in to help a governor find the limits to his authority under the Lockdown, it was suspected that one of our friends in that newly improved circuit would have a hand in it. And sure enough, that hand was detected, but it […] -
“The Virus – and Other Moral Hazards” Professor Hadley Arkes in The Catholic Thing
In his latest column for The Catholic Thing, JWI Founder and Director Hadley Arkes takes note of the curious way in which the commentators in the media have backed into a perspective of natural law in their uniform response to the COVID-19 virus. They take as a governing axiom, at every turn, the paramount importance […]