Hadley Arkes is the Edward Ney Professor of American Institutions at Amherst College, whre he has taught since 1966 and was the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence. Professor Arkes is the author of six books and numerous articles appearing in academic journals and national media outlets. Professor Arkes was the principle advocate for the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which Congress passed into law in 2002. At Amherst Professor Arkes founded the Committee for the American Founding, a student and alumni group whose mission is to understand and preserve the doctrines of natural rights ascribed to by the American Founders and Abraham Lincoln. After graduating from the University of Illinois, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Books:
Bureaucracy, the Marshall Plan, and the National Interest (1972),
The Philosopher in the City (1981),
First Things (1986),
Beyond the Constitution (1990),
The Return of George Sutherland (1994)
Natural Rights and the Right to Choose (2002)