What Might James Wilson Say to Today’s Supreme Court?
He can do more than, as John Roberts would have him doing, in affirming the law of non-contradiction.
Abortion
VIDEO: Hadley Arkes Receives 2025 Benedict Leadership Institute Award at Belmont Abbey College
IVF & Future of Federal Policy with Steve Aden
Blink and you may have missed it. President Trump signed into law another Executive Order, this one touching on a significant concern for pro-life Americans: in-vitro fertilization. The president’s latest EO reinserts us back into a debate over what legal protection should be afforded to embryos and the attendant public policy ramifications. But this debate …
Contra Koppelman: What Mere Natural Law Was About
Editors Note: This piece originally appeared in the Per Curiam section of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy as a response to a review by Prof. Andrew Koppelman of Hadley Arkes’s Mere Natural Law. It is reproduced here with permission from the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.
A Religious Liberty Right to Abortion? with Frank Beckwith
JWI Affiliated Scholar & Professor of Philosophy Frank Beckwith confronts a troubling trend among some legal scholars who, in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision, have constructed and advocated for a right to abortion rooted in religious liberty. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade and Casey in Dobbs, an increasing number of scholars argue …
Current Legal Issues Shaping Conservatism: Anchoring Truths Co-Founder Garrett Snedeker on Conservative Conversations with ISI
Anchoring Truths Co-Founder Garrett Snedeker joined the Conservative Conversations with ISI (Intercollegiate Studies Institute) Podcast. Hosts Tom Sarrouf (a former JWI Intern!) and Marlo Slayback discuss the recent Supreme Court term including the Court’s rulings on executive power in Trump v. U.S., administrative law after Loper Bright v. Raimondo, standing doctrine in Murthy v. Missouri …
Idaho v. United States: DIG’d, Ducked, and Demurred with Josh Turner
Listen as Joshua Turner, Chief of Constitutional Litigation and Policy for the State of Idaho and James Wilson Fellowship Alumnus, unpacks the ramifications of the Court’s decision to return the case of Idaho v. United States back to the 9th Circuit, dismissing it as improvidently granted. Josh outlines some of what we may expect from …
Minisode 6: National Conservatism Conference Scenes
For a special minisode, Hadley Arkes and Garrett Snedeker, who attended the 2024 National Conservatism Conference July 8-10, share impressions of both the public panel discussions and how the conference fits within our larger political and cultural moment. Edmund Burke Foundation, organizer of NatCon 4 Video of NatCon4 speeches and panels
A Discussion with Joshua Turner ’15
Josh’s experience arguing Idaho v. U.S. in front of SCOTUS and what EMTALA means for state abortion laws
Kari Lake Fumbles with Abortion
Hadley Arkes responds to the WSJ editorial on Kari Lake’s “abortion finesse.”
