Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Hershey H. Friedman & Joshua Krausz, Water from Stone: Extracting Leadership Wisdom from Moses' Mistake in Striking the Rock, (February 13, 2025).
• Hershey H. Friedman, The Life and Teachings of Rabbi Yosi: A Brilliant Scholar and Friend of the Prophet Elijah, (January 27, 2025).
• Adriano Diaz Cisneros, The Social Market Economy, Christian Humanism, and Antitrust: Foundations of Article 42 of Argentina's Constitution, (February 05, 2025).
• Craig Woody, The Inseparability of Pro-Life Speech and Religious Expression (FACE Act), (May 15, 2024).
• Maria Dugas, Gender According to World Athletics: The Regulation of Racialized Athletes from the Global South, (Dalhousie Law Journal, Volume 47:2 (2024)).
• Joshua Schroeder, Pure//Evil Part Deux: Why American Judicial Prophets Fixate on Chastity and Monsters, (SchroederLaw, Working Paper No. 107 (2025)).
• Mohd Javed, A Short History of Charitable Work/ Philanthropy Work /NGOs / NPOs, (January 31, 2023).
• Nancy A. McLaughlin & Jill R. Horwitz, Debra Turner v. Laurie Anne Victoria, et al., (University of Utah College of Law Research Paper Forthcoming,).
• Luke Boso, Fear and Hope for LGBTQ Rights in the Second Trump Administration, (54 Southwestern Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2025)).
• Eka Nugraha Putra, Non-Believers And The Problematic Blasphemy Laws In Indonesia, (October 10, 2024).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Haseeb Fatima Saikhu, Report of the Commission on Marriage and Family Laws in Pakistan: Analytical Examination of its Ijtihad on Succession Rights of Orphaned Grandchildren, (September 10, 2024).
• Sismanto, Siswanto & Djalaluddin, Ahmad, The Meaning of Mujahadah Values for Muslim Entrepreneurs Culinary Business in East Kutai Regency, (October 25, 2024).
• Sami Uddin, Muhammad Asghar Shahzad & Muhammad Abubakar Siddique, Legal Foundations for Shariah-Compliant Islamic Banking in Pakistan: Challenges and the Way Forward, (Majallah-yi Talim o Tahqiq, Volume 6, No. 4, October-December 2024).
• Shiraz Ahmad Khan, A Proposed Amalgamation of the Doctrines of Khiyar-al-aib and Caveat Emptor in Islamic Law and Common Law Respectively, (September 16, 2024).
• Badreddine Berrahlia, M. Kabir Hassan, & Aishath Muneeza, A Shari’ah Appraisal of Virtual Currencies Based on Historical Perspective, Recent Legal Development and Financial Trends, (May 15, 2024).

From SmartCILP:

• Vania Blaiklock, A License to Discriminate: The Risky next Step of Religious Charter Schools, 19 Harvard Law & Policy Review 235-277 (2024).
• Eleni Coundouriotis, Book Review. The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought, by Sonali Thakkar, 46 Human Rights Quarterly 549-552 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jeremy Ross, Fulton, Foster Care, and Free Exercise, (Tex. Rev. L. & Pol. (forthcoming 2025)).
• Thomas Charles Berg, Defining Neutrality, Combating Polarization: Laycock’s Essential Contributions, (Journal of Law and Religion (forthcoming 2025)).
• Caroline Mala Corbin, New Judicial Federalism and the Establishment Clause: Classroom Ten Commandments as a Case Study in State Constitutional Protection, (Texas Law Review (forthcoming)).
• R. George Wright, On the Justification of Academic Freedom and of Free Speech On the University Campus, (December 26, 2024).
• Catherine Archibald, Still Problematic, Even Post-Settlement: Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Law and the Federal Constitution, (28 Chapman Law Review 1 (2024)).
• Valeria Gomez, The New Abortion Borders for Immigrant Women, (Minnesota Journal of Law and Inequality (Forthcoming, Vol. 43)).
• Teresa Stanton Collett, The Unsettled (and Unsettling) State of Abortion Law in the United States in 2024, (Abortion: A Comparative Perspective, Centro para el Bien Común Global Instituto Razón Abierta (2025)).
• Clare Ryan & Benjamin J. McMichael, The Future of Frozen Embryos, (SMU Law Review, Forthcoming 2025).
• Dov Fox & Mary Ziegler, The New Abortion, (Columbia Law Review, Vol. 126 (forthcoming 2025)).

From SSRN (Non-U.S. Law)

• Ahmer Bilal Soofi, The Lost Sunnah Of Treaty Negotiation – Need For Revival, (December 15, 2024).
• Ahmer Bilal Soofi, The Prophet (pbuh) as an International Law Practioner,  (December 02, 2024).
• Susanna Mancini, Freedom of Religion in Italy and Europe, (December 10, 2024).

From SmartCILP:

• Ann C. McGinley, Religious Accommodations in the Dobbs Era, 27 Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal 276-334 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Kusal Amarasinghe, Eliminating Unnecessary Suffering in War: A Review on the Applicability of International Humanitarian Law & Selected Theravada Buddhist Principles, (International Research Conference- 2024, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo).
• Ann E. Tweedy, The Right to Practice Polyamory, (Southwestern Law Review, forthcoming 2025).
• David S. Cohen & Greer Donley, From Medical Exceptions to Reproductive Freedom, (Michigan Law Review, Volume 124, forthcoming 2025).
• Ian Stephens, Concrete and Particularized Standards to Resolve the Difficulty of Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, (October 21, 2024).
• Lauren van Schilfgaarde, American Cultural Heritage's Embrace of Tribal Cultural Heritage, (33 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 275 (2024)).
• Hannibal Travis, Genocide by Deportation into Poverty: Western Diplomats on Ottoman Christian Killings and Expulsions, 1914-1924, (Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper (forthcoming)).
• Laura D. Hermer, Abortion and Embodiment, (The American Journal of Bioethics, 2025).
• Lauren van Schilfgaarde, Native Reproductive Self-Determination,76 UCLA L Rev __ (2025)).
• Vincent Phillip Muñoz, What Is an Establishment of Religion? and What Does Disestablishment Require?,  (December 13, 2024).
• Risa L. Goluboff & Richard Schragger, Grants Pass and the Vagrancy Revolution Revisited, (The Supreme Court Review: Volume 2024).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Ihsan Yilmaz, The Diyanet's Role in Shaping National and Transnational Identities: Religion, Politics, and the AKP's Pragmatic Islamism, (September 02, 2024).
• Romi Setiawan, Nurul Hak & Adi Setiawan, Synergising Normative and Cultural Frameworks in Reforming Core Principles for Effective Zakat Supervision in Indonesia, (September 19, 2024).
• Ekaterina Ryzhkova, The Institute of Public Finance in the Legal Tradition of the Arab East, (November 06, 2024).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Australian Journal of Law & Religion, (Vol. 5, 2024).
• Willan Chester Jordan, Book Review: Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England, by Elizabeth Allen, [Abstract], 41 Law & History Review 841-842 (2023).
• Joseph Chu, Past Wounds, Present Scars: A Historical-Legal Analysis of Religion, Regulation and Rights in Article 36 of the Chinese Constitution, 33 Minnesota Journal of International Law 113-154 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Maria Javed & Varun Sharma, Courts Shaping Religion: Moving Beyond the Essential Religious Practices Test, (August 01, 2024).
• Ekaterina Ryzhkova, The Institute of Public Finance in the Legal Tradition of the Arab East, (November 06, 2024).
• Robert Watson, Applying Bostock: The Queer Case Against Public Single-Sex Schooling, (Journal of Law & Education, Vol. 51, No. 2, Fall 2022).
• Robert Watson, A New Sex Education: The Title IX Defense Against “Don’t Say Gay”, (Indiana Law Review, Vol. 57:403 (2023)).
• Robert Watson & Neha Srinivasan, Under (Conduct-Based) Attack: Rejecting the Trans Care Bans, (August 01, 2024).
• Scott Skinner-Thompson, Transgender Disenfranchisement, (102 Washington University Law Review (forthcoming 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• Mihir Khetarpal, Permissive Exemptions and Entrenchment. 85 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 27-80 (2023).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Cristina Tomuleț, Free Will in the Context of Sexual Offences. Why Is It Different?, (November 21, 2024).
• Kate Redburn, The Equal Right to Exclude: Religious Speech and the Road to 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, (December 18, 2023).
• Sam Mbago, Peaceful Coexistence: The Undeniable Liberty of Conscience ,(November 14, 2024).
• Hidayatul Ihsan, et. al., Factors Affecting the Motivation of Prospective Waqifs to Endow Insurance in Indonesia, (International Journal of Scientific and Management Research, volume 07, issue 11, 2024).
• Hidayatul Ihsan, et. al., A Digital Transformation in Waqf Management: Leveraging Microsoft Access for Financial Accountability, (International Journal of Scientific and Management Research, volume 07, issue 11, 2024).
• Jane Calderwood Norton, Weighing Benefits and Detriments in the Law of Charity, (March 16, 2021).
• Jane Calderwood Norton & Matthew Harding, Charities and politics: where did we go wrong?, (Legal Studies, volume 44, issue 4, 2024).
• Jeffrey A. Van Detta, Heresies, Heretics, and Hermeneutics: The Battle of Textualism Against Pragmatism-And Itself-On the Roberts Court, (Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2024-15).
• Steven Douglas Smith, Jurisdictional Diversity, Tradition, and the Religion Clauses, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 25-003 (2025).

From SSRN (Abortion rights):

• Kelsey Perault, A Woman's Right To Change Her Mind: The Abortion Pill Reversal Debate, (Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2024-19).
• Lawrence Rosenthal, Closing the Remedial Gap After Whole Woman's Health, (December 03, 2024).
• Jonathan F. Will, Embryonic Children, Double Effect, and the Regulation of Reproductive Technologies, (January 13, 2025).
• Zanita E. Fenton, (Re)Birth of a Nation: Reconstruction's Unfinished Business, (October 24, 2024).

From SSRN (Religious doctrines):

• Hershey H. Friedman, From Battlefield to Torah: The Military Prowess of Biblical Heroes, (December 20, 2024).
• Hershey H. Friedman, When Heaven Speaks: The Bath Kol as a Bridge to the Divine, (November 30, 2024).
• Ratna Kapur, TWAIL and Religion, (forthcoming in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law, Anghie, A.T, Chimni, B.S., Fakhri, M. Nesiah, V., Mickelson, K. , Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2025).
• Jeffrey A. Pojanowski, St. John Henry Newman's Development of Doctrine and Law: Some Preliminary Notes and Questions, (2024 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy: Per Curiam 36).

From SmartCILP:

•  Emily Kazyak, Kelsy Burke, Maia Behrendt & Marissa Oliver, Religious Exemption, LGBT Rights, and the Social Construction of Harm and Freedom, 49 Law & Social Inquiry 980-1003 (2024).
• Anthony E. Varona, Michele Alexandre, Michael J. Kaufman & Madeleine M. Landrieu, Panel: Religious Freedom and Diversity Missions: Insights from Jesuit Law Deans, 47 Seattle University Law Review 1427-1442 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

 From SSRN:

• Evangelos Venizelos, Religious Freedom for Muslims: A Challenge to the Historical Foundations and Resilience of European Constitutionalism, (June 15, 2023).
• Gader Wren, A Continued Sign of the Court’s Unwillingness to Overrule Smith, 7 Nev. L.J. Forum (2023).
• Gader Wren, The Establishment Clause: No Longer a Lemon, (100 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. Online 1 (2023)).
• Gader Wren, Dobbs: A Powerful Opinion with Discrete Weaknesses, (Idaho Law Review Spotlight, Vol. 2 (2023), Iss. 1, Art. 2).
• Kate Redburn, The Equal Right to Exclude: Religious Speech and the Road to 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, (December 18, 2023).
• Natasha Bakht & Lynda Margaret Collins, Notwithstanding the Notwithstanding Clause: A Case for Constitutional Guardrails on Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, (November 21, 2024).
• Carl H. Esbeck, Church Autonomy, Textualism, and Originalism: SCOTUS's Use of History to Give Definition to Church Autonomy Doctrine, (108 Marquette Law Review (forthcoming 2025)).
• Mark Storslee, History and the School Prayer Cases, (110 Va. L. Rev. 1619 (2024)).
• John Witte, Table Talks on Law & Religion, Canopy Forum, 2024 (forthcoming).
• John Witte, “Foreword,” to Walters-Sleyon, The Rush for Black Diamonds, (forthcoming).
• Jeffrey A. Van Detta, Heresies, Heretics, and Hermeneutics: The Battle of Textualism Against Pragmatism-And Itself-On the Roberts Court, (Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2024-15).

From SSRN (Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and Islamic Law):

• Amit Kumar Ghosh, Tantric Union of Male and Female in Vajrayana, (November 25, 2024).
• Haseeb Fatima Saikhu, Inheritance Rights of Orphaned Grandchildren under Section 4 of Muslim Family Law Ordinance, 1961 and its Alternative Solutions, (Law and Policy Review, Volume 3, No. 2, Pp.21–42 (2024).
• Christopher Hampson, The Spirit of Jubilee, (University of Florida Levin College of Law Research Paper Forthcoming).
• John Witte, The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law, (Canopy Forum, 2024).
• Johari, et. al., The Role of Temporary Waqf in Improving the Social Welfare of the Muslim Community (November 26, 2024).
• Ihsan, Hidayatul Ihsan, et. al., Factors Affecting the Motivation of Prospective Waqifs to Endow Insurance in Indonesia, (International Journal of Scientific and Management Research, volume 07, issue 11, 2024).
• Hidayatul Ihsan, Firman Surya, Eliyanora & Nurul Hafizah, A Digital Transformation in Waqf Management: Leveraging Microsoft Access for Financial Accountability, (International Journal of Scientific and Management Research, volume 07, issue 11, 2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Sandrine Brachotte, The Limits of Arbitration Law in Addressing Cultural Diversity: The Example of Ismaili Arbitration in the United Kingdom, (May 26, 2021).
• Tabrez Ebrahim, Comparative Intellectual Property & Religion, (14 IP Theory 1 (2024)).
• Laura Portuondo, Are Voters Allowed To Protect Abortion?, (November 03, 2024).
• Ira C. Lupu & Robert W. Tuttle, The Ten Commandments in Louisiana Public Schools: A Study in the Survival of Establishment Clause Norms, (Forthcoming, 2025, Chicago-Kent Law Review, in Symposium: “In Search of Common Ground: Religion and Secularism in a Liberal Democratic Society”).
• Michael DeBoer, State Constitutions and State Abortion Laws After Dobbs, (Santa Clara Law Review, Volume 64, No. 1. Pp. 217-264 (2024).
• Adam Steene, Can the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Survive TransUnion's Test for Article III Standing?, (November 12, 2024).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Muhammad Ishaque Gabol, Islamic Banking System Is the Only Alternative in the Current Financial Crisis of Pakistan: Need of Legislation Abstract, (January 3, 2023).
• Shamila Dawood, Islamic Law and Gender Equality: Challenges and Reforms in Sri Lanka's Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act, (Journal of Islamic Law, volume 5, issue 2, 2024).
• Hacer Saduman Okumuş & Mustafa Alper Gümüş Revitalizing 'Mahr' for the Financial Empowerment of Muslim Women within Türkiye's Secular Legal System, (Social Science and Humanities Open (2024)).
• Samiul Hasan, The Muslim Majority Countries as Islamic State: Importance, Performance, Future, (October 30, 2024).
• Muh Shadiqul Fajri AF, The Role of Mudharabah Contracts Towards MSME Capitalization in Samarinda, (Jurnal Penelitian Ilmiah INTAJ, volume 8, issue 2, 2024).
• Salsabilla Nur Anisa & Muh Shadiqul Fajri AF, The Impact of Islamic Financial Literacy on Gen Z's Investment Decisions in The Islamic Capital Market, (Islamic Capital Market, Volume 2, No. 2. Pp. 1-10 (2024)).
• Ahmad Fauze Abdul Hamit, Dynamic Triangulation between Shariah Compliance, ESG Transparency, and Firm Profitability, (International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, volume VIII, issue XII, 2025).
• Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli, A Constitutional Emirate. Legal Development in Taliban Afghanistan, (March 15, 2022).

From SmartCILP:

• Michael H. LeRoy, Accommodating Religious Liberty in an Artificially Intelligent Workplace, 38 Notre Dame Journal of Law Ethics & Public Policy 681-714 (2024).
• Melanie B. Stambaugh & Laura Creech, Church, State, and the New Mexico Civil Rights Act: How Litigants and Courts Can Invoke the State Constitution to Protect Establishment Clause Rights, 54 New Mexico Law Review 523-550 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Is Israel a Liberal Democracy?, (The Cairo Review of Global Affairs (December 2024)).
• Syed Khalid Mohiuddin & Danish Ahmed Siddiqui, The Development of the Maqasid Al Shariah Index to Assess the Sharia Compatibility Performance of Islamic Industry Including Other Industry and Financial Industry & Banks, (September 18, 2024).
• Taisu Zhang, "Natural Hierarchies", (Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Volume 36 (forthcoming 2025)).

From SmartCILP:

• Theresa Glennon, Book Review. Acknowledgement: Restoring Human Rights and Dignity. Redress: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice, edited by Katherine O'Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke, James M. Smith, 42 Boston University International Law Journal 1-26 (2024).
• Julie F. Kay, Prioritizing Children's Educational Interests When One Parent Leaves an Ultra-Orthodox Community, 57 Family Law Quarterly 231-264 (2023-2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Almir Sivalee,  Historical Aspects Of The Discipline For The Construction Of Primitive Christianity, (November 01, 2022).
• Dennis Wieboldt, Conservative Constitutionalism Reconsidered, (Journal of American Constitutional History 2 (2024)).
• Marc O. DeGirolami, "The Very Idea of Tradition in the Law", (Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy: Per Curiam, No. 35 (2024)).
• Robert Junqueira, The Sacred Nature of Human Rights: Vladimir Solovyov’s 1898 Saint Petersburg Speech, (JusGov Research Paper No. 2024-19 (2024).
• Jennifer Lee Koh, Immigration from a Christian Perspective: The Challenge and Imperative of Racial Justice, (December 05, 2024).
• Benjamin M. Leff, Challenging the Johnson Amendment: What SAFE SPACE Gets Right -and Wrong, (October 07, 2024).
• Timothy Zick, New Threats to Campus Protest, (First Amendment Law Review (forthcoming, 2025)).
• Alexander Tsesis, The Establishment of Religion in Schools, (FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper, Forthcoming).

From SSRN (Non-U.S. Law):

• Imam Sujono, Implementing and Developing Islamic Law Internationally: Challenges in the Modern Age, (Journal of Modern Islamic Studies and Civilization, vol. 1, issue 02 (2023)).
• Frutuoso Rocha, Miriam, Portuguese Multicultural Jurisprudence: Foreign Women or Women Members of Ethnic or Religious Minorities, (JusGov Research Paper No. 2024-18 (2024)).
• Patricia Jerónimo, Religious Time Accommodation Claims and Non Discrimination in the Workplace - Portuguese Constitutional Case Law in Comparative Perspective, (JusGov Research Paper No. 2024-25 (2024).
• Zeeshan Rais Khattak, Impact of Riba Based Transactions on the Socio-Economic System of Pakistan, (March 20, 2024).
• Dr. Sheikh Inam Ul Mansoor, Shari'ah and the State: Analysing Recent Legal and Political Changes in Türkiye, (May 10, 2024).
• Jualie Ada Tchoukou, Regulating Gender Violence in Postcolonial Societies: Is Legal Pluralism a Problem for Human Rights?, (November 21, 2024).

From SmartCILP:

• Forrest Tahdooahnippah, The "Ceremonial Use" Defense to Infringement of Psychedelic Patents, 39 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 917-960 (2024).
• Mike Steenson, Kaplan v. Independent School District of Virginia—The Max Kaplan Story, 50 Mitchell Hamline Law Review. 238-303 (2024).
• Leslie C. Griffin, Catholic Sexual Abuse in Louisiana, 101 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 375-456 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Steven Douglas Smith, We Hold . . . What Truths? Further Reflections on the American Proposition, (Rice-Hasson Lecture, Delivered at Notre Dame Law School, November 1, 2024).
• Andrew C. Michaels, Ayahuasca and Religious Freedom, (October 15, 2024).
• Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Coercion by the Orthodox Minority in Israel, (October 28, 2024).
• Catherine E. Smith, Tanya Washington & Suzette Malveaux, Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars for the Advancement of Children’s Constitutional Rights in Support of Defendant-Appellees in St. Mary v. Roy, (October 24, 2024).
• Mark V. Tushnet, Some Thoughts About Free Speech and Hostile Environment Discrimination on College Campuses, (October 16, 2024).
• Bernard M. Levinson, In Memoriam Norbert Lohfink SJ (28 July 1928-23 September 2024), (Society of Biblical Literature In-Memoriam Archive (2024)).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Ali Rod Khadem, Islamic Apocalyptic Justice, (Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 31, No. 3, p. 260 (2024)).
• A.B.M. Asrafuzaman & Mohammad Golam Sarwar, Recent Trends of Judicial Activism for the Advancement of Muslim Family Laws in Bangladesh: A Critical Appraisal, (September 12, 2020).
• Eleni Polymenopoulou, Sharia and Human Rights Law in the Constitutional Framework of Gulf States, (May 01, 2023).
• Zeeshan Rais Khattak, Examining Conditions of Maṣāliḥ Mursalah Fulfilling the Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah) in the Modern Age, (June 20, 2022).
• Rauf Iqbal, Muhammad Asghar Shazad, Abbas Abbas & Muhammad Akmal, Determinants of Performance of Insurance Companies having Window Takāful Operations in Pakistan, (Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice, Vol 20, Issue 3, 2024).
• Madhushka Kannangara, The Transition from LIBOR to RFRs: Implications on Islamic Banking and Finance (May 23, 2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Conor Casey, Natural Law, Practical Reasoning, and Legal Interpretation in 'Natural Law and Modern Society', (Forthcoming, Jurisprudence, 2025).
• Caroline Mala Corbin, Regulating LGBTQ Speech in the Classroom, (24-19 Knight First Amend. Inst. (Oct. 25, 2024)).

From SSRN (Abortion Rights):

• Catherine Dowd, Where There's a Will. There's a Way: Abortion Litigation in the States, (Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 484 (2024)).
• Dr. Tania Penovic, Exporting the American Playbook: The International Reach of the US Anti-Abortion Movement, (January 30, 2024).
• Stephen Gilles, Federal Free-Exercise Challenges to Restrictive Abortion Laws, (37 Regent University Law Review, Issue 2 (2025), forthcoming).
• Alyssa Curcio, Immunizing Roe: How Court Treatment of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Supports Reproductive Freedom, (Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, volume 43, issue 1, 2023).
• Deborah Machalow, Terminating Democracy: The Antiabortion Movement's Attempted Subversion of Direct Democracy Since Dobbs, (October 08, 2024).
• Michael L. Smith, Dignity and Abortion Rights Under State Constitutional Law, (75 Syracuse L. Rev. (Forthcoming 2025)).
• Guha Krishnamurthi, Abortion Regulation and Chilling from Extremists, (October 13, 2024).

From SSRN (non-U.S. Law):

• Rasham Armab Saikhu, Zakat Exemptions under Pakistani Law: An Analysis of Case Laws, (March 01, 2024).
• Hamed Hikmany & Abdul-Nasser Hikmany,  East African Reforms and the Future Stake of Muslims, (TIJER || November 2023, Volume 10, Issue 11).
• Haroun Rahimi & Faiza Muhammad Din, Female Madrasas & Islamic Agency of Afghan Women (November 04, 2024).
• Oonagh B. Breen, Niamh Carruthers, Niall O’Sullivan & Patricia Quinn, Philanthropy in Ireland, (UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11 (2024).

From SmartCILP:

• Christopher R. Green, Citizenship and Solicitude: How to Overrule Employment Division v. Smith and Washington v. Davis, 47 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 465-506 (2024).
• Bari Weiss, Barbara Olson Memorial Lecture. You Are the Last Line of Defense, 47 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 289-308 (2024).
• James deBoer, Dispelling the RFRA Shibboleth: Affirming Religious Freedom and Expressive Rights, 38 Wisconsin Journal of Law Gender, & Society 192-267 (2023).

Recent Articles, Books, and Podcasts of Interest

From SSRN:

• John Witte, The Richard O'Sullivan: Memorial Lecture A New Great Awakening of Religious Freedom in America, (Law & Justice, 2023).
• Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Coercion by the Orthodox Minority in Israel, (February 16, 2022).
• James Toomey, Introduction—Bioethics After Dobbs, (45 Pace Law Review 1 (2024)).

From elsewhere:

• Special Issue, Reevaluating the Norms of Law and Governance in Islamic Legal History, Journal of Islamic Law, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2024).
• Special Issue, Scholarly Debates: Moving Past Structural Death, Journal of Islamic Law, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2023).

Recent Podcasts:

• America Trends Podcast, Some Red States Putting Religion Back in Schools, (with Prof. Ira Lupu), (Nov. 25, 2024).

Recent Books:

• Daniela Berti & Anthony Good, Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia, (Routledge, Nov. 2024).
• Matteo Corsalini, Business, Religion and the Law-- Church and Business Autonomy in The Secular Economy, (Routledge, Aug. 2024),
• Jelle Creemers & Tatiana Kopaleishvili  Religious Freedom and COVID-19-- A European Perspective, (Routledge, Aug. 2024).
• Mareike Riedel, Law and Jewish Difference: Ambivalent Encounters, (Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2024).
• David Hollenbach, Human Rights in a Divided World, (Georgetown University Press, July 2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

 From SSRN:

• Caroline Mala Corbin, Regulating LGBTQ Speech in the Classroom, (24-19 Knight First Amend. Inst. (Oct. 25, 2024)).
• Seval Yildirim, Populist Secularism, (Minnesota Journal of International Law 39 (2024)).
• Jack Fiander, Apache Stronghold versus United States of America; a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Aberration, (October 27, 2024).
• Kyron Huigens, Theistic Illiberal Constitutionalism: A Review of Adrian Vermeule’s Common Good Constitutionalism, (63 U. Louisville L. Rev. 1 (2024).
• Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, Are Nonprofit Tax Exemptions And Deductions 'Federal Financial Assistance'?, (October 31, 2024).
• Anthony Michael Kreis, Sex and Control in Redeemer Georgia, (41 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025)),
• Kurt Lash & Stephanie H. Barclay, 'A Crust of Bread': Religious Resistance and the Fourteenth Amendment, (November 13, 2024).
• Quinn Yeargain, The Right to Health Care Freedom in State Constitutions, (93 UMKC L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024-25)).

From SSRN (Non-U.S. Law):

• Prithivi Raj, Judicial Stewardship of Secularism and Religious Sentiments in India: A Comprehensive Examination, (May 01, 2023).
• Yueduan Wang, Render unto Caesar: Strategic Avoidance in Chinese Courts, (International Journal of Constitutional Law (Forthcoming)).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 39, Issue 2 (2024).
• Symposium, Building LGBTQ+ Inclusive Legal Systems, 34 Indiana International and Comparative Law Review 1 (2024).
• Wayne Batchis, The Discriminatory Religion Clauses, 97 Southern California Law Review 367-416 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Saroj Shekhar Mallick, The Constitutional Framework of Secularism in India: A Legal and Historical Perspective, (September 30, 2024).
• P. Saliya Sumanatilake, A Universal Philosophy of Law, (August 19, 2023).
• Abubakar Yusuf Mamud, The UMMAH Project: A Comprehensive P/CVE Framework for Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria, (October 01, 2024).
• Mitchell F. Crusto, Equality, Morality, & Religious Liberty, 77 SMU L. Rev. F. 219 (2024).
• Arhant Kumar, Comprehending Individuals’ Religious Freedom under Indian Secularism, (October 01, 2024).
• Valentino Cattelan, The Making of Law in Islam: Fiqh as Delivery of Verdicts, (March 20, 2024).
• Moritz Schroeder, From Fragmentation to Unity - A Conceptual Approach for Enhanced Transparency, Digitalization, and Coordination in the Donation Market, (October 04, 2024).

From SmartCILP:

• Rabea Eghbariah, Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept, 124 Columbia Law Review 887-992 (2024).
• Bente de Leede & Nadeera Rupesinghe. Registering and Regulating Family Life: The School Thombos in Dutch Sri Lanka, 41 Law & History Review 501-522 (2023).
• Christopher C. Lund, Book Review. Favoritism, Coercion, and the Establishment Clause. Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience, by Nathan S. Chapman, Michael W. McConnell, 122 Michigan Law Review 1303-1320 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Hershey H. Friedman, The Desire to Be Liked: Talmudic Insights on Truth-Seeking in a Polarized World, (September 22, 2024).
• Anthony Ikechukwu Ugwu, Chikaodili Juliet Ugwoke & Uchenna Virginus Eze, Ethnicity and Religion as the Breeding Grounds for Insecurity in Nigeria, (September 20, 2024).
• Blaine Hutchison, Title VII's Religious Liberty Rules in Carter, (Texas Review of Law & Politics, Volume 28, No. 2. Pp. 714-39 (2024).
• Mohammad Fadel, Beyond Liberal Zionism: International Law, Political Liberalism and the Possibility of a Just Zionism, (Forthcoming, Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems).
• Vincent Phillip Muñoz, James Madison's Political Science of Religious Liberty, (July 01, 2021).
• Matteo Winkler, Matteo & Ilias Bantekas, The Re-Criminalization of Sexual Minorities as a Testing Ground for International Human Rights Law in Africa, (July 31, 2024).
• Sandeep Bhupatiraju, Daniel Chen, Shareen Joshi & Peter Neis, Legal Disparities and Judicial Mitigation: Muslim Petitioners in an Indian High Court, (September 13, 2024).
• Greer Donley, Regulatory Turbulence in Post-Dobbs America, (in Regulation In A Turbulent Era (Daniel Walters & Cary Coglianese eds., Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2024).

From SmartCILP:

• Stephanie Hennette Vauchez, Can Religious Schools Discriminate on the Basis of Religion?: A Comparative Law Approach, 39 Connecticut Journal of International Law 80-126 (2023).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Ruth Colker, Christian Domination, (Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 885 (2024)),
• Kathleen Brady, Law, Religion, and Education, (in Faith in Law, Law in Faith: Reflecting and Building on the Work of John Witte, Jr. (Rafael Domingo et al. eds., 2024) (forthcoming)).
• Richard Kenneth Sherwin, Constitutional Over-Belief: Affective Intensity as a Function of Law's Legitimation, (September 18, 2024).
• Jeffrey R. Baker, Christian Realism and the Sins of Mass Incarceration, (Georgia Criminal Law Review (forthcoming 2025)).
• Richard Kenneth Sherwin, The Challenge of Legal Chorology: Rethinking Political Theology, (September 18, 2024).
• Nomi Maya Stolzenberg, The Protestant (Dis)Establishment: Its Overlooked Role in the Ongoing Battles Over Religious Liberty (A Prospectus), (August 26, 2024).
• Nomi Maya Stolzenberg, The Legal Imagination and the Protestant (Dis) Establishment, (September 10, 2024).
• Dr. Allah Ditta Qadri, Hafiz Muhammad Usman & Dr. Irshad Hussain, Islamic Distinctiveness and Prohibition of Imitation of Non-Muslims: A Rational Review, (September 22, 2024).

From SmartCILP:

• John Fee, Harmonizing Freedom of Speech and Free Exercise of Religion, 32 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 677-720 (2024).
• Allan Walker Vestal, Tax-Funded Education Savings Account Payments to Religious Schools Violate State Constitution Compulsion Guarantees: The Iowa Example, 32 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 771-844 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Lin Fang, Zhige Yu & Yi Zhang, Does Confucianism Mitigate Court Conflicts?, (October 19, 2024).
• Ardiansyah, Enforcement of Prophetic Law in Settlement of Land Cases in Indonesia, (August 14, 2024).
• Carolyn Powers, The Next Evolution of Religious Accommodation in Employment, (59 Gonz. L. Rev. 543 (2024)).
• Michelle LeBaron & Maged Senbel, Conflicts With Religious or Worldview Dimensions: Why They Matter and How to Engage Them (July 01, 2022).
• Prithwish Ganguli, Justice or Silence: Navigating Sexual Violence Jurisprudence in Shariah Law from the Victim's Lens (October 24, 2024).
• Syed Tayyab Shere & Danish Ahmed Siddiqui, Shariah Compliance Issues in Tawarruq Financing for Short-Term Liquidity Management: A Response to Global Financial Market Trends in Islamic Banking, (September 16, 2024).
• Alfitri, Rijal Imanullah & Aulia Rachman, Unregistered Polygamy Validation: Isbat Nikah, Polygamy Permit, and Due Process of Law in Indonesian Religious Courts, (September 11, 2024).

From SmartCILP:

• Jeffrey A, Redding, Book Review. The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims. Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism, by Katherine Lemons; Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia, by Elizabeth Lhost, 49 Law & Social Inquiry 611-617 (2024).
• Marcia L. MCCormick & Sachin S. Pandya, The Braidwood Exploit: On the RFRA Declaratory Judgment Class Action and Title VII Employer Liability, 58 University of Richmond Law Review 413-458 (2024).

Recent Articles and Videos of Interest

From SSRN:

• Akshat Agarwal, Supriyo and the Politics of Indian Family Law, (Indian Law Review (Forthcoming 2024)).
• Nimra Saghir Ahmed & Danish Ahmed Siddiqui, How Religiosity Complements the Effect of Promotional Strategies on Attitude and Purchase Intention of Customers towards Islamic Banks, (June 12, 2024).
• Mugambi Jouet, Abortion and American Exceptionalism, (Criminal Justice Law Review (2025), Forthcoming).
• Jordan Blair Woods, The New Sexual Deviancy, (113 Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2025)).
• Ido Katri & Maayan Sudai, Intersex, Trans And The Irrationality Of Gender Affirming Care Bans, (134 Yale Law Journal (Forthcoming)).
• Richard F. Storrow, Gender Identity and Birth Certificates: The Surrogacy Nexus, (31 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 125-72 (2024)).
• Mustafa Hammad Hussain & Danish Ahmed Siddiqui, Analyzing the Performance of Full-fledged Islamic Banks in Pakistan from Maqasid-ul-Shariah Perspective, (June 12, 2024).
• Jennifer Mosley, Nicole P. Marwell, Emily Claypool & Cameron Day, Impact, Equity and Philanthropic Foundations: Can Randomized Controlled Trials Help Account for The Democratic Deficit?, (August 30, 2024).
• Tendai Mukau, Accords of Dignity: The U.S. Constitution’s Article VI Treaty Power as a Mechanism to Bolster Human Rights Reform in the United States, (Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 175-289 (2023)).
• Tèmítọ́pẹ́ Bọ́ládalẹ́, Medico-Legal Issues in Compulsory Vaccinations and Quarantine, (August 31, 2023).

From Elsewhere:

• Columbia Law School Law, Rights & Religion Project, The Black Religious Liberty Curriculum, (2024) (12-part video series).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Paul E. McGreal, Resolving the Ministerial Exception's Economic Paradox, (September 03, 2024).
• Andrew Paul Gwaza & Joseph Ochogwu, Building Inclusive Religious Education in Nigeria, (February 21, 2024).
• Sayed Qudrat Hashimy, Justice for Victims of Atrocity Crimes: The ICC’s Pursuit in the Prosecution of War Crimes in Afghanistan, (Eastern Africa Journal on International Humanitarian Law, Vol. 3 Issue 1 (2024), pp. 49-111).
• Chanchal Kumar Singh & Mritunjay Kumar, The Uniform Civil Code Debate in India: Conceptual Predicaments, Historical Legitimacy, and Challenges to Pluralism V Sml. L. Rev. 12 (2022).
• Rosalind Simson, Transgender Students, Fairness, and the Protection of Female School Sports, (Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy, Spring 2025 (forthcoming)).
• Sherif Girgis, Originalism's Age of Ironies (September 23, 2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Io Jones, The IVF Exception: Strengthening Free Exercise Challenges to Abortion Bans, (UC Law Constitutional Quarterly, Volume 52, Issue 3 (forthcoming February 2025)).
• Netta Barak Corren & Noam Shlomai Kunitz, Minimalism, Law, Ideology, and the Public Impact of the Supreme Court, (Journal of Law and Empirical Analysis, (volume 1, issue 2, 2024)).
• P. Saliya Sumanatilake, ‘Dhamma’ – The Grundnorm of Sri Lanka’s ‘Living Law’, (August 19, 2023).
• Maria Francesca Cavalcanti, Varieties of Constitutionalism and Religion: Greece, Israel and Lebanon in Comparison, (European Yearbook of Constitutional Law (EYCL), Vol. 6 (forthcoming)).
• Katie R. Eyer, Title IX in the Age of Textualism, (86 Ohio State L. J. __ (forthcoming, 2025)).
• Naomi Schoenbaum, Rethinking Sex as Biology Under Equal Protection, (U.C. Davis Law Review (2024), Forthcoming).
• Samiul Hasan, European Colonization of the Abode of Peace: Engineered Insecurity in Muslim Majority Countries, (August 24, 2024).
• Sunil Sondhi, Hindu Law in Greater India Ancient Roots of Indigenous Law, (August 29, 2024).