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2025 Law School Seminars
Posted on Dec 2 2025
Since 2016, JWI has brought a condensed version of its Fellowship program to law school campuses around the country. In the span of two days, JWI provides an introduction to Natural Law Jurisprudence for these students. The law school seminars provide a unique and impactful jurisprudential approach where these approaches are needed most. Each seminar spans one-to-two-days and introduces students attending top law schools across the nation to the philosophical concepts and practical applications of Natural Law. At their core, the seminars provide students with commonsense principles of moral judgement; principles that are unfortunately ignored by the academy and underappreciated by many -- even in the conservative legal movement. With gatherings of eager law students from University of Michigan, Cornell, and University of Texas, the James Wilson Institute enjoyed an intellectually rich fall!
JWI Co-Director Gerry Bradley led our first seminar ever at the University of Michigan, hosting students from the law school and from the University of Akron law school and discussing religion and the Constitution among other topics.
Our Founder and Co-Director Hadley Arkes led our first ever seminar at Cornell, discussing the first principles of law and their application to cases that are likely to appear in litigation.
JWI returned for a third time since 2019 to one of our favorite campuses, the University of Texas at Austin. One of the crucial elements that made it possible for JWI to double our law school seminar offerings this past year was the addition of Professor Justin Dyer as our first Senior Fellow. Professor Dyer led our law school seminar at the University of Texas, where he is the dean of the School of Civic Leadership. Dyer, joined by JWI Deputy Director Garrett Snedeker, led one of our largest seminars of the year for twenty-five students, including a half-dozen undergraduates listening to a graduate seminar for the first time.
2025 was the first year that JWI ahs been able to host six seminars in a single year. This is thanks to the generosity of the Lynne and Harry Bradley Foundation. The six seminars held in 2025 are triple what we hosted in 2023, and we hope to keep up this pace into 2026. Students have begun to notice the unique education that JWI provides, and we now have a waiting list of over ten schools whose students have asked us to put on a seminar on their campus.
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