James Wilson Fellowship

Prof. Arkes and the James Wilson Institute will be hosting the 2020 James Wilson Fellowship from August 2 - 7. This week of intensive seminars will introduce a class of young attorneys to the arguments and foundations of natural law and its proper place in our modern jurisprudence. The seminars will be led by Prof. Arkes along with members of the JWI Affiliated Scholars. This Fellowship will be co-sponsored by First Liberty Institute.

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Anchoring Truths - a James Wilson Institute project

The James Wilson Institute has sought to recover, and to teach again, those anchoring truths that provided for the Founders the moral ground of the law.

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Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge.

— James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1790

The James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding