Dr. Hadley Arkes

Featuring Dr. Hadley Arkes, Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence at Amhurst College, President of the James Wilson Institute on Natural rights and the American Founding

 

Dr. Hadley Arkes explores how in framing the United States Constitution the founders drew upon the principles of "right and lawfulness" that were "already there"; and why in applying the Constitution to cases it is necessary, even today, to appeal beyond the text of the document to principles that would exist even if it had never been written.

Dr. Arkes is the author of five books the most recent being "Natural Rights and the Right to Choose" (2002), and "Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths: The Touchstone of the Natural Law" (2010). His articles have appeared in professional journals as well as public forums like the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, and National Review. He has also been a contributor to First Things, a journal that took its name from his book of the same title.

Dr. Arkes was interviewed at Texas Tech University on September 17, 2015 in Lubbock, TX.