James Wilson XXVI: Senior Seminar

The James Wilson Institute will convene May 3-4, 2024 the twenty-sixth meeting of the Senior Seminar. The Seminar gathers some gifted teachers of philosophy and law with stars of the federal as well as state bench for an intensive weekend of discussions on moral philosophy and the law. This invite-only event is one of the flagship programs of the James Wilson Institute.

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Anchoring Truths - a James Wilson Institute project

The James Wilson Institute has sought to recover, and to teach again, those anchoring truths that provided for the Founders the moral ground of the law.

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Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge.

— James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1790

The James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding