Articles tagged as Law and Liberty
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Justin Dyer: “Standing Against Falsehood” James Wilson Symposium
In 2021, JWI begins a collaborative partnership with the Liberty Fund’s online journal, Law & Liberty. Led by its Director, Richard Reinsch, Law & Liberty has become one of the premier journals on the Right for writing on jurisprudence, politics, and the culture. Prof. Hadley Arkes opened our first symposium in February 2021 with “Letter to a […] -
“On the First Principles of Moral Reason”: Paul DeHart in Public Discourse
In an essay for Public Discourse, James Wilson Institute friend Prof. Paul DeHart continues his interaction with Prof. F.H. Buckley’s criticism of natural law reasoning. In an article for Law & Liberty, Prof. Buckley argued that “natural lawyers” fall victim to the “is-ought” problem pointed out by British skeptic David Hume – you cannot derive […] -
“Defending Religious Liberty Without the Constitution?”: Prof. Arkes in Law & Liberty
Last week the Supreme Court took a decisive step in striking down the so-called Blaine Laws, which barred the use of public funds in supporting religious activities, especially private religious schools. Professor Arkes argues that the Court, for a change over the last few weeks, managed to get something right. But in the ways of the […] -
“Is Relativism the Best Constitutional Defense of Free Speech?” Richard Reinsch Interviews Hadley Arkes for LibertyLawTalk
Richard Reinsch, the editor of the Online Library of Law and Liberty and the host of LibertyLawTalk, interviewed Hadley Arkes to discuss his thoughts on the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on issues of speech, as articulated in cases such as Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942), Matal v. Tam (2016), and NIFLA v. Becerra (2018). Their discussion centered on the Court’s tendency […]