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"Are Intellectual Property Rights Moral?" - Gunnar Gundersen in Starting Points Journal

By The James Wilson Institute • Dec 5 2017
In the digital age, intellectual property - from proprietary algorithms to music - may be just as valuable as real estate and factories.  In a piece for Starting Points Journal entitled, “Are Intellectual Property Rights Moral?,”  JWI…

Natural Rights and Health Care: An Interview with Dr. Yuval Levin

By The James Wilson Institute • Dec 1 2017
Dr. Yuval Levin is the founding editor of National Affairs and contributing editor to National Review and The Weekly Standard. The Hertog Fellow and Director of the Bioethics and American Democracy program at the Ethics and Public Policy…

Forgotten Cases: "Worthen v. Thomas and the Contract Clause" --Prof. David Forte in The Federalist Society Review

By The James Wilson Institute • Nov 13 2017
In a recent article for the Federalist Society Review, Professor David Forte, JWI Senior Scholar, corrects our jurisprudential history on the Contract Clause by re-examining two opinions from the Supreme Court of the 1930s: Home Building…

James Wilson Lecture - "The Scottish Enlightenment and the Founding" --Prof. Daniel Robinson

By The James Wilson Institute • Nov 9 2017
On November 3rd, 2017, Prof. Daniel Robinson, Fellow of the Faculty at Oxford University and Senior Fellow at the Wheatley Institution, delivered the bi-annual James Wilson Lecture. Prof. Robinson has published over 40 books on psychology…

Interview with US Commission on International Religious Freedom Chairman - Prof. Daniel Mark

By The James Wilson Institute • Sep 29 2017
Professor Mark was recently elected chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). He is an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University, a visiting fellow at the University of Notre Dame,…

Free Speech and Religious Liberty at the Supreme Court

By The James Wilson Institute • Sep 25 2017
Jack Phillips, Barronelle Stutzman, Blaine Adamson, and the Larsen Family: each are blessed with extraordinary creativity and faith along with success in their private businesses. Jack bakes personalized cakes, Barronelle designs unique…

Prof. Hadley Arkes on Life Talk - "The Moral Turn"

By The James Wilson Institute • Sep 14 2017
On Life Talk , a production of Sacred Heart Radio in Washington State, Prof. Hadley Arkes gives a behind-the-scenes look into his recent essay  in First Things, "The Moral Turn."  Prof. Arkes discusses how he came to write the essay, the…

"Natural Justice and the Amistad"--Professor Justin Dyer in Starting Points

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 28 2017
Justin Dyer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri and an Affiliated Scholar of JWI, recalls the oral argument of John Quincy Adams in the historic Supreme Court case of United States v. Amistad (1841). In a piece…

Prof. Hadley Arkes on The Mike Janocik Show - "The Moral Turn"

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 18 2017
Prof. Arkes joined The Mike Janocik Show to discuss his recent essay in First Things,  "The Moral Turn." Prof. Arkes examines the treatment of moral arguments by progressive and conservative lawyers, explains several schools of…

The Seth and Chris Show - Prof. Hadley Arkes on Charlottesville and Free Speech

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 15 2017
Prof. Arkes joined The Seth and Chris Show to discuss the protests in Charlottesville, VA and analogies to the Nazis who marched through Skokie in the late 1970s. Prof. Arkes examines the contradictory position of the ACLU in its defense…
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