Hadley Arkes, Ph.D.

Hadley P. Arkes, Ph.D. (b. 1940), is the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions Emeritus at Amherst College, where he taught for 50 years beginning in 1966. He earned his B.A. from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Leo Strauss. He is the founder and director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding. He has written extensively on a priori moral principles and constitutional interpretation, publishing five books with Princeton University Press and additional volumes with Cambridge University Press.