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Moral Truth and Constitutional Conservatism: Prof. Gerry Bradley in the Louisiana Law Review

By The James Wilson Institute • Jun 3 2021

JWI Trustee and Senior Scholar Gerry Bradley has written a "must-read" law review article that eloquently and forcefully argues for a jurisprudence of Natural Law as a corrective against the ills of progressive approaches to constitutional…

Revisiting ‘Roe’: Prof. Gerry Bradley in the National Catholic Register

By The James Wilson Institute • Jun 3 2021

In an article titled "Revisiting ‘Roe’: Why the Supreme Court Decision on Mississippi Case Will Likely Ditch Viability" for the National Catholic Register, JWI Senior Scholar and Trustee Gerry Bradley predicts the approach of certain…

“The Right to... WERK” – Prof. Hadley Arkes on Dissed Podcast

By The James Wilson Institute • Jun 3 2021

On an episode of Dissed, a podcast about famous Supreme Court dissents with attorneys Anastasia Boden and Elizabeth Slattery, Prof. Hadley Arkes speaks about the moral grounding for economic liberty in our constitutional order. Prof.…

The Court Sets Off Tremors – Again: Hadley Arkes in The Catholic Thing

By The James Wilson Institute • Jun 2 2021

In his column for The Catholic Thing, JWI Founder and Director Prof. Hadley Arkes comments on the Supreme Court decision to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks…

"Lemon v. Kurtzman at 50" - Francis Beckwith in Law and Liberty

By The James Wilson Institute • Jun 1 2021

In an article at Law and Liberty, JWI Scholar Francis Beckwith traces the history and eventual demise of the Lemon Test created by Chief Justice Burger in Lemon v. Kurtzman on its 50th anniversary. The Court has inconsistently applied the…

PODCAST: Sohrab Ahmari on "The Unbroken Thread," Part 2

By The James Wilson Institute • May 24 2021

Author and New York Post opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari joined JWI Deputy Director Garrett Snedeker and intern Guy Denton for a two-part discussion of his new book, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos.…

PODCAST: Sohrab Ahmari on "The Unbroken Thread," Part 1

By The James Wilson Institute • May 17 2021

Author and New York Post opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari joined JWI Deputy Director Garrett Snedeker and intern Guy Denton for a two-part discussion of his new book, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos.…

"In Defense of 'A Better Originalism'" - Prof. Hadley Arkes in Law & Liberty

By The James Wilson Institute • May 10 2021

In an essay for Law & Liberty, James Wilson Institute Founder and Director Prof. Hadley Arkes defends JWI's recent call in The American Mind for judges to adopt an "originalism of moral substance" against criticism by John Grove. Prof.…

"Originalism and Its Discontents" -- David Forte at Anchoring Truths and Law & Liberty

By The James Wilson Institute • May 6 2021

Senior JWI Scholar David Forte responds to the co-authored piece "A Better Originalism" at JWI’s online journal Anchoring Truths. In a symposium in collaboration with Law & Liberty, Forte defends the place of positive law in a "correct…

"An Opportunity to Overturn Roe" - Gerry Bradley in First Things

By The James Wilson Institute • May 4 2021

In an essay for First Things, JWI Senior Scholar and Trustee Gerry Bradley explores the future of Roe v. Wade and the implications of Justice Amy Coney Barrett's appointment to the Supreme Court for the pro-life movement. Recently, the…

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