Natural law is not some theory hanging in the clouds, but an essential element of the very act of judging.
Hadley Arkes
What role does natural law play in originalism?
To say that people flown with high confidence offer specious things as moral truths is not to say that there are no moral truths there to be known.
An Apologia pro Sua Vita: A defense of why I've tried to summon my wit over the years to shape a jurisprudence of natural law.
In Espinoza, the Court elevates a principle that finds no mention in the text of the Constitution.
The conservatives have joined the Left on the Court in creating a spiral of relativism that promises to bore down ever further.
Hadley Arkes is the Ney Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Amherst College and the Founder/Director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights & the American Founding. His forthcoming book from Regnery is Mere Natural Law.