The Role of Law in the Crisis of Our Age
May 10, 2024. The Hale Institute is hosting a fundraising dinner in downtown Coeur d’Alene. The event will feature lectures from two renowned speakers: Theo Wold, former Solicitor General of the State of Idaho and current Director of the Administrative State Project for the Claremont Institute, and Jeff Shafer, Director of the Hale Institute. Our speakers will address the evening’s timely theme: The Role of Law in the Crisis of our Age.
The Scientific Revolution and the Reduction of Health, Man, and Community
Oct 26, 2023. The Hale Institute is hosting Dr. John Patrick for a lecture event at the Sword & Shovel Bookstore: "The Scientific Revolution and the Reduction of Health, Man, and Community." The event is open to the public and is free to attend. Seating is limited; to RSVP please email: acarpenter@haleinstitute.org .
The State and Health, the State of Health, and the Health of the State: Assessing Terms and Conditions
May 25, 2023. Characterizing our ascendant legal-political order are its exertions in service of public health—with “health” understood in a way fitted for despotic rule: in terms of a mechanistic reduction of persons into merely empirical, measurable features.
The Establishment Clause After Kennedy v. Bremerton School District
March 29, 2023. Judge Ryan Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will discuss the Supreme Court's adjustments to its First Amendment religion clause jurisprudence as presented in its recent decision in the case of Kennedy v. Bremerton School District.
Biblical Law and Wisdom
March 23, 2023. The relevance and role of biblical law in modern life, when considered at all, tends to be rigorously contested. One area of disagreement is in terms of how to understand the point and character of the legal material in the Scriptures to begin with. What is biblical law?
Reconsidering Religious Establishment: Political Theology Then and Now
October 26, 2022. An evening lecture with Professor Glenn Moots on the role of church and theology in the political order.
Life After Roe: The Supreme Court's Decision in Dobbs and the Future of Abortion in America
September 23, 2022 the Hale Institute and the Idaho Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society will host an event entitled “Life After Roe” with panel debate at the University of Idaho's Pittman Center in Moscow, Idaho, to hear from experts on both sides of the abortion controversy about the important and thorny questions surrounding the recent decision by the Supreme Court.
Law at a Crossroads: Natural Family as Justice? Or Disintegration as Organizing Precept?
May 25, 2022. An entry in Justinian’s Institutes famously observes that knowledge of law amounts to little if it overlooks the persons for whose sake law is made.
Tearing Down the Walls that Keep American Jurors in the Dark
April 20, 2022. There is much about the American criminal jury system that citizens should know, but that most don’t.
The Common Law Constitution of the American Republic
January 22, 2022. Considering the remarkable legal inheritance we possess in our common law constitution, and how we might rehabilitate its role within American law.