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In his column for The Catholic Thing, JWI Founder and Director Prof. Hadley Arkes expresses worry that the Supreme Court might seek to take the easy way out of the ultimate question haunting our jurisprudence: should the Court overturn Roe v. Wade? Prof. Arkes suggests that the Court, under the guise of prudence, may invent […] …
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SCOTUS101, a Heritage Foundation podcast, recently interviewed JWI Fellowship alumnus and junior associate at the law firm Schaerr Jaffe LLP Joshua Prince (’18) about “how a young lawyer can start a career as an appellate advocate.” The podcast can be heard here. …
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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 interpretation and positivist originalism. We share with you the full text of the article below, appearing in the Summer […] …
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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 Justices of the Supreme Court thought to be pro-life after the announcement of that the Court would hear Dobbs v. […] …
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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. Arkes cites Justice Stephen Field’s dissent in the 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases as recognizing the natural right of people to their […] …
