JWI Founder & Co-Director Hadley Arkes joined by Judge Edith Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit as well as Prof. Randy Barnett of Georgetown University Law Center discussed Prof. Arkes’s book Mere Natural Law on Nov. 10, 2023 at the Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention. Prof. Robert George of Princeton …
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.
In reviewing “Mere Natural Law,” scholar Jordan Perkins argues that it is necessary that legal cognition be infused with moral reasoning.
“The pitfall of the argument in favor of parents’ rights is that it makes the decision for children to be exposed to information about sexual activity or access to puberty blockers a matter of a parent’s will,” writes Sarrouf.
This is latest installment of an ongoing interview series with First Things contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Hadley Arkes joins the podcast to discuss his new book Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution. The conversation is embedded above. For your long-term convenience, follow this podcast on SoundCloud or subscribe via iTunes or Stitcher.
In this article, Phillip Muñoz suggests how we can read the religious free exercise and establishment clauses in light of the Constitution’s original design and purposes, being situated properly in a tradition of natural law and rights.
Prof. Hadley Arkes recently appeared on Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler, where the two discussed the principles animating Prof. Arkes’s latest book, Mere Natural Law.
Prof. John Yoo of California’s Berkeley Law School joins the Anchoring Truths Podcast for a light-hearted and spirited discussion of his new, co-authored book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court as well as the recent decisions of the Supreme Court in its OT 2022 term. Yoo clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas, served in …
Cline argues that the roots of a nation’s receptiveness to the Natural Law grow from its Christian foundation.
David Deavel reviews Mere Natural Law, showing how it ddraws out the moral arguments present in nature.
