Hadley Arkes
“Constititional Issues Post-Dobbs” JWI at Nat Con 3

The James Wilson Institute was one of the co-sponsors of the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, Florida from September 11-13 2022. We were grateful to be invited by the Edmund Burke Foundation, the conference organizer, to convene a panel titled “Constitutional Issues Post-Dobbs.” This panel provided unique insights into the state and direction of legal …
Stricter Scrutiny for Common Good Constitutionalism
The Future of Abortion Law — Hadley Arkes on The Daily Signal Podcast
Did The Dobbs Decision Go Far Enough? — The Federalist Radio Hour
The Declaration’s Substantive Global Appeal
Hadley P. Arkes & Why The Supreme Court Got It Right – The Ben Domenech Podcast
The Conservative Legal Movement at the Edge of Schism
What the Hearings Missed
Once More Unto the Breach: Arkes v. Whelan on the Overruling of Roe

In a response to Ed Whelan’s critique of “On Overturning Roe,” Prof. Arkes insists that the moral argument against Roe is the only logical one for judges who believe in the deep wrong of abortion. The pro-life cause rests on objective moral truths, not on value judgments, and as a result does not require judges (as Whelan claims) “to read their own moral convictions into the Constitution.”