Saturday, February 25, 2006

Recent Publications On Church-State Issues

From SmartCILP:
Robert W. Gurry, The Jury Is Out: The Urgent Need For A New Approach In Deciding When Religion-Based Peremptory Strikes Violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments, 18 Regent Univ. Law Review 91-128 (2005-2006).

Symposium: Bankruptcy in the Religious Non-Profit Context, 29 Seton Hall Legislative Journal 341-557 (2005):
  • Boozang, Kathleen M., Introduction - Bankruptcy In the Religious Non-Profit Context.
  • Skeel, David A., Jr., "Sovereignty" Issues and the Church Bankruptcy Cases.
  • Cafardi, Nicholas P., The Availability of Parish Assets for Diocesan Debts: A Canonical Analysis.
  • Wells, Catharine Pierce, Who Owns the Local Church? A Pressing Issue For Dioceses In Bankruptcy.
  • DiPietro, Melanie, The Relevance of Canon Law In a Bankruptcy Proceeding.
  • Sargent, Mark A., The Diocese After Chapter 11.
  • Carmella, Angela C., Constitutional Arguments In Church Bankruptcies: Why Judicial Discourse About Religion Matters.
  • Brody, Evelyn, The Charity In Bankruptcy and Ghosts of Donors Past, Present, and Future.
  • Davitt, Christina M., Student Article: Whose Steeple Is It? Defining the Limits of the Debtor's Estate In the Religious Bankruptcy Context.
Mirror of Justice has a review of Jay Sekulow's recent book, Witnessing Their Faith: Religious Influence on Supreme Court Justices and Their Opinions (Rowman & Littlefield, Nov. 2005).