Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Nathan B. Oman, 'I Will Give Unto You My Law': Section 42 as a Legal Text and the Paradoxes of Divine Law, (Embracing the Law, Essays on Doctrine and Covenants Section, Jeremiah John, ed., p. 42, Salt Press, Forthcoming).
• Iain T. Benson, Unexamined Faiths and the Public Place of Religion: Emerging Insights from the Law,  (April 1, 2011).
• Tetty Havinga, Regulating Halal and Kosher Foods: Different Arrangements between State, Industry and Religious Actors, (Erasmus Law Review, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 241, 2010).
• Dr. Muhammad Munir, Triple Talaq in Islamic Law and Personal Laws of Muslim States: Continuity versus Change, (April 15, 2011).
• Joel A. Nichols, Misunderstanding Marriage and Missing Religion, (Michigan State Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Jessica Knouse, Civil Marriage: Threat to Democracy, (Michigan Journal of Gender and Law, 2012).
• Kenneth L. Marcus, The New OCR Antisemitism Policy, (Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, Vol. 2, 2011).
• Michael Allsep, James E. Parco, and David A. Levy, E Pluribus Unum: Open Homosexuality and the Culture War within the US Armed Forces, (Air and Space Power Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 68-76, 2011).
• Perry S. Bechky, Lemkin’s Situation: Toward a Rhetorical Understanding of ‘Genocide’, (Brooklyn Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Joan’s Two Bodies: A Study in Political Anthropology, (Social Research, Forthcoming).
• Hannibal Travis, On the Existence of National Identity Before ‘Imagined Communities’: The Example of the Assyrians of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Persia, (April 13, 2011).

From SmartCILP:

• Ofrit Liviatan,  Faith in the Law--The Role of Legal Arrangements in Religion-Based Conflicts Involving Minorities, 34 Boston College International and Comparative Law Review 53-89 (2011).
• David Nimmer, Queen Anne in the Emperor's Shadow, 47 Houston Law Review 919-964 (2010).

New Books:

• Sanjiv Bhattacharya, Secrets and Wives: The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy, (Soft Skull Press, 2011). Religion Dispatches has an interview with the author.
• Jonathan Dudley, Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics, (Random House, April 2011).
• Charles Kimball, When Religion Becomes Lethal : The Explosive Mix of Politics and Religion in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, (Jossey-Bass, April 2011).