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To restore the American Founders’ understanding of the moral grounds of our rights…
by bringing back a commonsense foundation to the study of law…
2025 Fall Law School Seminars - Michigan, Columbia, and Texas
to inspire a new generation to discover anew our nation’s absolute truths.
2026 Winter Fellowship Class
Testimonials
The James Wilson Seminars are virtually unique in the academic world. These seminars are the most important conferences I attend.
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Robert Miller
• Allison and Dorothy Rouse Chair in Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School
By participating in the James Wilson Institute fellowship, I was able to deepen my understanding of the foundational principles of our nation, the “laws of Nature and reason,” central to which is the intrinsic right to life of every human being, from conception to natural death.
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Catherine Foster
• 2016 James Wilson Fellow
“I went to college and law school at Harvard … [the James Wilson Fellowship] was an even higher level than many of those classroom conversations.”
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Tyler Dobbs
• 2025 James Wilson Fellow
Key Programs
The James Wilson Fellowship
The Senior Seminar
Law School Seminars
James Wilson Boards of Jurists and Scholars
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Anchoring Truths
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