Mere Natural Law: A Conversation with Hadley Arkes
July 18, 2023
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Episode 80 · July 18, 2023
Mere Natural Law: A Conversation with Hadley Arkes
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Mere Natural Law: A Conversation with Hadley Arkes
Summary
What is natural law, and what does it have to do with originalism? Why does the Right defend religion yet so often struggle to define it? Next up in our "Summer of Law" series, Hadley Arkes, the Edward Ney Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Amherst College and the Founder and Director of the James Wilson Institute sits down to chat about his recent book, Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution (Regnery Publishing, 2023).
More on Prof. Arkes is available here.
About the The James Wilson Institute, here.
The Stanford Review's "religion," referenced during the podcast is here.
Annika Nordquist is the Communications Coordinator of Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and host of the Program’s podcast, Madison’s Notes. She graduated from Stanford University in 2021, where she studied Classics and Linguistics. She was also Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Review and a member of the varsity fencing team. Previously, she was a Research Assistant in Education Policy at the American Enterprise Institute.
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