Justin Dyer

July 22, 2022

Selective History in the Dobbs Dissent

JWI Affiliated Scholar Justin Dyer criticizes Justice Sotomayor's dissenting opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case. However, he also appreciates that the dissent does not exclusively rely on historicism.
July 4, 2022

The God of the Declaration

The American Founders and Lincoln believed in a Natural Law and a natural lawgiver at the moral core of the project they brought forth, argues JWI Affiliated Scholar Justin Dyer
February 23, 2021

Why Positive Law Needs Natural Law

Justin Dyer explains why Originalism at its root requires a foundation in Natural Law to make coherent sense.
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