Essays
July 13, 2023
Can Natural Law Be "Mere"?
Cline argues that the roots of a nation's receptiveness to the Natural Law grow from its Christian foundation.
July 11, 2023
Natural Born Lawyers: A Scholar Challenges The Conservative Legal Movement
David Deavel reviews Mere Natural Law, showing how it ddraws out the moral arguments present in nature.
June 30, 2023
'Dobbs' a Year Later: The Lady in the Hat and the Vase
Hadley Arkes reflects on the year since the overturning of "Roe v. Wade" and unpacks the next steps a brave judge could take in protecting the pre-born.
June 16, 2023
Standing Athwart History, Redux: Review of Patrick Deneen's "Regime Change"
John Ehrett '21 wants a successful postliberal theory to have "bigger and brighter dreams" than Patrick Deneen does in "Regime Change."
June 2, 2023
The Urgent Need to Remove DEI from Higher Ed in Ohio
Hal R. Arkes's testimony on a paradigmatic effort to remove mandated DEI from higher ed in one state
May 19, 2023
Hadley Arkes on "Mere Natural Law," Role of the Judiciary, Debates within Originalism, and the Moral Foundations of the Law—Originalist Angles
Prof. Hadley Arkes sat down for an interview with Originalist Angles to discuss his new book "Mere Natural Law" and the principles of Natural Law that undergird our constitutional order.
May 9, 2023
VIDEO: Judge Janice Rogers Brown, 2023 Leadership & Law Award Remarks
Judge Janice Rogers Brown delivers stirring remarks on the future of the country and the role of the judge upon receiving the 2nd JWI Leadership & Law Award.
March 31, 2023
Why We Cannot Avoid Natural Law in Constitutional Debates
Michael Hayes (JWF '20) analyzes the Court's positions on substantive due process in the key Dobbs decision, and makes clear that try as we might, we never can truly escape from moral reasoning and the Natural Law.
