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Contra Koppelman: What Mere Natural Law Was About

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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

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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

Legal Conservatives: Fear Not a Second Trump Term

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Veteran judiciary-watcher Ed Whelan—who has faithfully and fruitfully served the conservative legal movement since its early days—has written an article that will appear as “Who’s Afraid of Trump II?” in the September 2024 print edition of National Review. Whelan’s article presents an informative summary of the thought process shared by many highly intelligent, well-informed Republicans

Justice Barrett & Rejecting Judicial Supremacy with Prof. Kevin Walsh

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Join the Anchoring Truths Podcast team and Professor Kevin C. Walsh from Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law for a discussion over Prof. Walsh’s fascinating talk with Justice Amy Coney Barrett. We trace the intellectual origins of judicial supremacy from Lincoln’s time to the years of the Warren Court to our current political moment and discuss the proper role of the Supreme Court to distill what the law means today.

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