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Will Warnisher ‘24

“When else are you going to have a full week dedicated to reading some of the most foundational texts in our jurisprudence, in our moral reasoning tradition, and really come together with an intellectual community that is serious and is ready to discuss them? I really don't think you can find that anywhere else."

Prof. Robert Miller

Senior Seminar Participant
"These seminars are the most important conferences I attend."

Steven Foster ‘24

“The thing that struck me the most was how we placed the common good and the human being at the center of all our discussions, which I think is missing a lot of the time in the law.”

Ugonna Eze '22

"An experience unlike any other I have ever had...the James Wilson Fellowship really brought out the richness of the law and the very rich tradition that underlies the legal profession.”

Daniel Shapiro '21

“This Fellowship has demonstrated the moral basis of legal reasoning...that the law is deeply moral, and it can never be abstracted away from those morals."

Garett Anderson ‘24

“Going through this program has really opened my eyes to the natural law and to the faults in today's legal society that we need to address.”

Grant Newman

Harvard Law School
"I learned more in two days with the James Wilson Institute than I did in my entire semester course on Constitutional Law."

Zach Carstens ‘22

“I would recommend this to anybody.”

Ethan Szumanski ’24

“A lot of lawyers nowadays seem to be walking around aimlessly, not caring about the moral or legal failings of society... the James Wilson Institute gets at the heart of that and says: we're not going to walk around aimlessly and be indifferent to the things going on, we have to address them because if we don't, no one will.”

Ellie Ritter ‘24

“I think young lawyers should be or would be well advised to apply to fellowships like this, especially the James Wilson Fellowship. There's no other fellowship out there that gives you such a close-knit group of people who are thinking in the same way and who are really working to come together on issues that are difficult but exciting and challenging.”
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Prof. Robert Miller

Senior Seminar Participant

“The James Wilson Seminars are virtually unique in the academic world. Not only are they always devoted to what may be the most important question in American law—the relation of natural law to contemporary legal questions—but they also consistently bring together essentially the same set of scholars and judges, which allows the participants to have a much more substantive, serious, and sophisticated conversation, a conversation extended over time in an ongoing pursuit of the truth. These seminars are the most important conferences I attend.”

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Steven Foster ‘24

“I could readily tell that every single person here, both faculty and fellows, were deeply passionate about America and the flourishing of our country, and that's what made our discussions very important."

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Daniel Shapiro '21

“I think this is the perfect experience to have...because you're going to think about the law differently after this, you're going to think about the law in a sounder way, in a more logical way, but also in a in a more moral way, and that will inform everything you do and it will make every case feel like it's a part of a coherent whole rather than just kind of groping around in the dark.”

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Garett Anderson ‘24

“I think that this institute and the people in it, the faculty and the fellows, my co-fellows, past fellows, will continue to help shape the conservative landscape throughout the legal community in America.”

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Zach Carstens ‘22

“The James Wilson Institute is giving people a philosophical vocabulary to objectively describe what it is that makes people moral...attending the James Wilson Fellowship was like unlocking a door to a body of knowledge.”


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