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“Rethinking Libel, Defamation, and Press Accountability” Anchoring Truths Podcast with Carson Holloway

By The James Wilson Institute • Nov 1 2022

In this episode of the Anchoring Truths Podcast, Garrett Snedeker and JWI intern Jacob Shields sit down with Professor Carson Holloway of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, to discuss his recent article for the Claremont Press…

"What Thomas Aquinas via Harry Jaffa Can Say to the New Right" - Glenn Ellmers in Anchoring Truths

By The James Wilson Institute • Nov 1 2022

Glenn Ellmers outlines the lessons the New Right can learn from Harry Jaffa’s insights on the need for a “ruling principle” in a political society. Ellmers argues that, while the New Right’s tendency to emphasize the concrete grounds of…

VIDEO: Roe Changed the Culture, Was Dobbs the Cure? – Hadley Arkes at Notre Dame

By The James Wilson Institute • Oct 29 2022

On September 23, 2022, Hadley Arkes delivered a lecture at the University of Notre Dame titled “Roe Changed the Culture, Was Dobbs the Cure?”. The lecture was part of the James Wilson Institute’s Seminar on Natural Law at Notre Dame that…

"Protecting Babies Who Survive Abortions Is the First Step" - Hadley Arkes in WSJ

By The James Wilson Institute • Oct 13 2022

In a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal, Hadley Arkes argues for a reintroduction of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. We've included an excerpt of the letter below: "Surely the most critical political challenge to…

James Wilson Summer Legal Fellowship 2022

By The James Wilson Institute • Sep 9 2022

On July 31 2022, we convened our annual James Wilson Fellowship. The class and fellowship were among our best yet. In the spring, we selected a group of outstanding law students and young lawyers to comprise our ninth class of Fellows. We…

"Don’t Ignore the Federal Levers on Abortion" - Hadley Arkes in National Review

By The James Wilson Institute • Aug 29 2022

Hadley Arkes argues that conservatives must use federal power to protect the rights of the unborn. Even before Roe v. Wade, the federal government involved itself in regulating abortion. After Dobbs, Arkes says the levers of federal power…

Fundraising Dinner: Leadership & the Law Award

By The James Wilson Institute • Jul 15 2022

Judge Janice Rogers Brown was confirmed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 2005 where she served until she retired in 2017. From 1996 to 2005, she was Associate Justice of the California Supreme…

"Liberty To Do What?" — Hadley Arkes at The Human Life Review

By The James Wilson Institute • Jul 6 2022

On June 1, 2022, James Wilson Institute Founder and Director Hadley Arkes joined First Things editor Rusty Reno and City College of New York's George McKenna for a panel hosted by The Human Life Review. They first discussed the potential…

"The Greatest Living American Issues His Career-defining Court Opinion" - Josh Hammer

By The James Wilson Institute • Jun 28 2022

Josh Hammer is opinion editor of Newsweek, a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, counsel and policy advisor for the Internet Accountability Project, a syndicated columnist through Creators and a contributing editor for…

"What Comes After Roe" by Gerard V. Bradley

By The James Wilson Institute • Jun 28 2022

Gerard V. Bradley is a trustee of JWI and a professor of law at Notre Dame School of Law "Almost fifty years after handing down its calamitous abortion decision on January 22, 1973, SCOTUS has finally corrected the biggest mistake it…

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