Recent Articles of Interest

Note to Readers: Recently, the number of articles being posted each week to the Social Science Research Network has grown dramatically. This has resulted in each Monday's posting on Religion Clause of "Recent Articles of Interest" becoming unmanageably long-- often 25 to 30 articles each week. Starting with this post, I plan to curate much more intensively my weekly list in the hope that this will make the list more useful to my readers. I will attempt to limit each week's list to a dozen or so articles. I would appreciate hearing from readers via email at religionclause@gmail.com whether you prefer this curated approach. I can revert to the lengthier versions if that is preferred. -- HF

From SSRN:

• Marc O. DeGirolami, The Conquest of Me Decade Religion, (Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy (forthcoming).
• Vivian Grosswald Curran, Disentangling the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, (Duke J. Comp. & Int'l L. (forthcoming)).
• Tiffany Williams Brewer & Eric Brewer, Faith, Freedom, and the Rule of Law: Christian Responsibility, the Beloved Community, and the Lawyer as Social Engineer, (August 15, 2026).
• Samuel L. Brayn, Nathan S. Chapman & Brent Strawn, Prescribing Religion: The Ten Commandments on Classroom Walls, (University of Chicago Law School, Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper No. 26-25 (2026).
• Antony Irungu, The Sacralization of Power: Exploring Religious Manipulation within the Electoral Process, (August 14, 2026).
• Audra Savage, The Whitewashing of Religious Liberty, (August 02, 2026).
• Sushil K Jain, Britain's Post-War Transformation and the Structural Presence of Islam: An Academic Rejoinder to "Islamic Republic" Rhetoric, (August 15, 2026).
• Paul J. Larkin, Gender Dysphoria, Public School Responsibilities, and Parental Rights, (August 17, 2026).
• Agustin V. Startari, The High Middle Ages: A Historiographical Framework, (August 16, 2026).
• Nicholas McBride, James Joyce as a Great Irish Christian Jurist, (McIlroy (ed), Christianity and the Making of Irish Law: Violence, Virtue and Reason (Routledge, 2025)).
• Torun Dewan & Limor Ressler, Reading the Economic Logic of Law from Its Recorded Disputes The Machloket as Identification,(June 30, 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Wenfu Zheng, The Dynamics of Redemption: From Sovereign Decree, Intercession, Compassion, Justice, Calling, Leading, and the Centripetal Rest of Grace-A Chiastic Exegetical and Doctrinal Study of Genesis 18:20-19:38, (August 05, 2026).
• Jennifer S. Bard, A Dangerous Can of Worms: Viewpoint-Based Exemptions from Professional Standards of Care After Chiles v. Salazar, (August 06, 2026).
• Peter J. Smith & Robert W. Tuttle, The Mistaken Turn to Church Autonomy, (14 Texas A&M L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2027)).
• Michael Conklin, The Dobbs Dissent Delay: Examining Allegations of Intentional Delay Amid Threats to the Justices, (August 06, 2026). 
• Jack Thorlin, Thou Shalt Not: Free Exercise Originalism and the Ten Commandments in Public Schools, (July 31, 2026).
• Yurii Sheliazhenko, When Will the European Court of Human Rights Rule on the Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Wartime?, (August 12, 2026).

From SSRN (Canada and Latin America):

• Shanaz Joan Parsan, Protecting All Canadians: Hate for None. Equal Protection for All. Combating Hate While Preserving Freedom of Conscience, Political Belief and Lawful Dissent, (August 08, 2026).
• Shanaz Joan Parsan, Taxing Faith? The Catholic Church, Public Value and the Fiscal Logic of Religious Exemption: A Canadian Historical, Economic and Interfaith Assessment, (August 01, 2026).
• Atile Dos Santos, Black Lgbti+ Pentecostal Families and Affect of Resistance: Decolonial Perspectives from The Brazilian Periphery, (August 02, 2026).
• Agustina Ramón Michel & Dana Repka, Medical Conscientious Objection in Latin America 30 Years After Cairo, (August 30, 2025).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Muhammad Irfan Haroon, Nurture, Not Liberty: Habeas Corpus, the Guardian Court, and the Limits of Constitutional Jurisdiction in Pakistani Child Custody Disputes, (August 07, 2026).
• Jalil Abbasi, Introducing Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Nekounam's "Wisdom-Oriented Jurisprudence" (Fiqh-i Ḥikmat-Garā) to Western Academic Audiences, (August 06, 2026).
• Muhammad Irfan Haroon, Second Marriage and Polygyny in Pakistan: Reconciling Qur'anic Conditionality, Hanafi Doctrine, and Statutory Regulation, (June 08, 2026).
• Muhammad Irfan Haroon, Aurat March, Women's Rights, and Islamic Legal Principles: Toward a Principled Reform Agenda in Pakistan. (August 07, 2026).
• Syed Raheel Shahzad, Testing Qur’anic Coherence Claims: A Pilot Method for Evaluating Structure, Placement, and Thematic Continuity, (August 13, 2026).
• Abideen Ajibade, A Comparative Analysis of Inheritance Under Islamic Law and the Customary Laws of the Igbo and Yoruba Peoples in Nigeria, (August 10, 2026).
• Jalil Abbasi, The Methodology of Executing Ḥudūd: A Critical Translation and Commentary on the Emancipatory Jurisprudence of Grand Ayatollah Nekounam, (May 27, 2026).

From SmartCILP:

• Maya Kreimer, British Imperial Constitutional Law and the Zionist Campaign against the Legislative Council in Mandatory Palestine, 43 Law & History Review 339-363 (2025).
• Saumyashree Ghosh, Between Law and Politics: Islamic Judges in the South Indian Littoral, 1808–1885, 43 Law & History Review 557-585 (2025).
• Book Reviews from Vol. 43, Issue 3, Law & History Review: R.H. Helmholz, Criminal-Inquisitorial Trials in English Church Courts: From the Middle Ages to the Reformation, by Henry Ansgar Kelly; Ilkay,Yilmaz, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State, by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky; Paul R. Katz, Buddhism in Court: Religion, Law, and Jurisdiction in China, by Cuilan Liu.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Essien Oku Essien, Cumulonimbus Cloud System and Indigenous Spirituality: A Comparative Semiotic Theology of Convective Storms in the Anthropocene, (July 30, 2026).
• Russell Powell, Framing Religious Constitutionalism, (25 Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion 63 (2026)).
• Mark Edward Blankenship Jr., IP Portfolios Within the Biblical Timeline, (July 14, 2026).
• Travis Gilly, The Selection Criterion: Attenuated Design, Sequence Evidence, and What Deregulation Cannot Explain About Federal Civil Rights Policy, (July 24, 2026).
• Amy J. Sepinwall, The New Speech-Conduct Equivalence, (July 28, 2026).
• Russell Powell, Religious Approaches to Constitutionalism: Empirical Scholarship and Exceptionalism, (July 24, 2024).
• Jaime Levin, Reframing Parental Rights in the Wake of Skrmetti, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law (forthcoming 2026-2027).
• Christian Edmonds, Mark David Hall & S. Ernie Walton, History, Tradition, and the Right of Parents to Direct the Education and Moral Formation of Their Children (July 29, 2026).
• Joseph Griffith, Is the Right of Parents to Direct Their Children's Education "Deeply Rooted" in our "History and Tradition"? , (Texas Review of Law and Politics¸ Vol. 28, No 3. (Summer 2024), 795).

From SSRN (Legal Issues in Europe, Asia and the Middle East):

• Mohammed Rida Nour, Religion and Conflict in the Middle East : Competing Narratives, Political Legitimacy, and the Erosion of the Social Contract, (June 30, 2026).
• Rob Kahn, Reforming European Hate Speech Jurisprudence (Book Review)(reviewing Natalie Alkiviadou, Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights, Routledge 2025), (21 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review (forthcoming)).
• Arvind P. Bhanu, Niharika Julka & Sonia Sthapak, Human Rights and Reproductive Choice: Developments in India and The United States, (March 01, 2026).
• Gergely Dezideriu, The Dynamics of  "Hate Crimes” in the Ecosystem of Discrimination and the Factors Influencing the Investigation of Acts Motivated by Discrimination in the Logic of ECtHR Case Law and Academic Perspectives. Data Set No. 2:  "Violation”, (Noua Revista de Drepturile Omului (New Human Rights Journal), 22(1), 93-120 (2026).
• Bilal Saleem, Silence and Spectacle: A Content Analysis of Religious Minority Coverage in Pakistan's English and Urdu Press, (July 6, 2026).
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From SSRN (Non-Profit Organizations):

• Mustafa Batman & Timur Kuran, The State Waqfs of Ottoman Istanbul, 1453-1923, (July 20, 2026).
• Sushil K. Jain, In the Best Interests of the Nonprofit: A Fiduciary Framework for Litigation Decision-Making, (June 10, 2026).
• Scott Hodge, Closing the $2.8 Trillion Nonprofit Business Loophole: A Tax Reform Proposal for Congress, (August 5, 2026).

From SSRN (Denomination-Specific Subjects):

• Tayson DeLengocky, D.O., Pilgrimage Under Siege: The Complete Story of Thích Minh Tuệ, Part IV—The Economy of Trust: Value without Capture in the Age of Institutional Distrust;     (Part V): Religious Freedom, System-Generated Harm, and Non-Institutional Authority in the Digital Age—Thích Minh Tuệ, the Walk for Peace, and the Future of Transnational Religious Mobility, (July 21, 2026).
• Russell Powell, The Relevance of Catholic Social Thought for Law, (23 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 1 (2025)).
• Carlos Alberto Dutra Fraga Filho, Progressive Revelation and the Omission of Information in the Process of Joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Information Omitted from Digital Religious Marketing and Door-to-Door Missionary Proselytism, Lack of Institutional Transparency, and Limited Access to Essential Information Prior to Religious Affiliation, (July 20, 2026).
• Yamin Salahi & Tanina Rostain, Brief of Amici Curiae 50 Jewish Scholars of Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, Middle East Studies, and Antisemitism in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Prichett v. Newsom, (N.D. Cal. San Jose Div. Dec. 9, 2025).
• Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Hindu Nationalism as Authoritarian Law, (Forthcoming, Oxford Handbook of Law and Authoritarianism (Cora Chan, Madhav Khosla, Benjamin L. Liebman, and Mark Tushnet, eds.).

From SSRN (Religion and Technology):

• Lloyd George Banda, Digital Technology and Models of Demand for and Supply of Religion: Empirical Evidence from World Values Surveys, (Cambridge Politics and Religion, Forthcoming).
• Russell Powell, Skynet and the Holy See: Magnifica Humanitas and Legal Norms for the AI Revolution, (Indiana Law Journal Supplement (forthcoming)).
• Mulima Owen, The Singularity and the Sacred: Navigating Theological Frontiers in the Age of Superintelligence, (July 28, 2026).

From SSRN (Islamic Law and Thought):

• Syed Muaz Shah, The Objectives Resolution -An Unfulfilled Objective? An Analysis of Its Constitutional and Judicial Impact in Pakistan Since 1949, (Policy Perspectives, volume 23, issue 2 (2026)).
• Muhammad Irfan Haroon, Khula in Name, Nashuz in Substance: Dower Entitlement After Arslan v. Nisha Shahid (2026 LHC 4758), (July 23, 2026).
• Abu Hayyan Saeed, Rationality, Qur'anic Thought, and Modern Secularization: A Critical and Analytical Review in the Light of International Scholars' Views, (July 22, 2026).
• Intisar A. Rabb, The Past and Future of Islamic Legal Canons, 7th-21st Century: A Storied History, An Emerging Field, (Cambridge Companion to Islamic Law, edited by Sohaira Siddiqui and Mariam Sheibani (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)).
• Intisar A. Rabb, Testing Ordinary Meaning in Islamic Law, (August 01, 2026).
• Muhammad Sarim Tahir, Khutba No. 4 of Khutbaat-E-Bahawalpur "Islamic International Law: A Historical Analysis, Development and Systematic Codification", (September 12, 2025).
• Dr. Mohammad Tareque, Turning Qur'an 2:280 into Prudential Policy: Forbearance Rules for Non-Performing Islamic Financing, (July 28, 2026).
• Muhammad Abrar, The Concept of Torts in Islamic Jurisprudence and English Common Law: A Comparative Study of Convergence and Divergence, (July 05, 2026).
• Armine Saakyan, Definition and Meaning of Fatwa in Islamic Law, (III All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference, (2026)).

Recent Articles of Interest

 From SSRN:

• Yuanlou Lin, Shut in Caves and Sealed in Jars: The Danielic Influence on the Long-Term Preservation of the Qumran Scrolls (July 09, 2026).
• Abu Hayyan Saeed, History, Hegemony, and Intellectual Opium: A Comparison of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Worlds, (July 09, 2026).
• David McGinley, Manifesting The Imago Dei Through Private Property: Promoting Justice And Guarding Against Anti-Image Systems Of Distortion, (January 07, 2026).
• Christina M. Sautter, Ricci Gramitto & Alberto Sergio , The Incorporation Ritual, (in The Nature of Corporations (Jonathan Hardman, Steve Kourabas, Billie Lythberg, Christoph Van der Elst & Susan Watson eds., Edinburgh Univ. Press forthcoming 2027).
• Thomas A. Smith, The Office of Citizen: A Reoccupation in Plain Sight, (July 28, 2026).
• Osama S. Qatrani, Beyond Arab-Jewish Reductionism: Broken Kinship, Political Visibility, and Exclusive Sovereignty in Palestine and Israel, (July 13, 2026).
• Richard Moon, The Limits of State Neutrality in Religious Matters. (May 19, 2026).
• Scott Altman, The Unexpected Case for Public School Opt-Outs, (July 30, 2026).
• Christine Bartholomew & Allen P. Grunes, From Rerum Novarum to Magnifica Humanitas: Antitrust Law and Catholic Social Teaching in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, (Concurrences 7-2026 (Insights)).
• Paul McLaughlin, The Imperative to Protect All Children from Genital Cutting: The Ethical, Legal, and Policy Reasons Why Laws to Prohibit Infant Male Circumcision Must Be Passed, (January 07, 2026).
• Margaret E. Johnson, Maryland Reproductive Freedom and the Full Personhood of Pregnant People, (The Harbinger| Vol. 53, 2026).
• James R. Campbell, Thomistic Forfeiture and the Rehabilitation of Defensive Abortion, Part II, (International Journal of Applied Philosophy, volume 38, issue 1, 2024).
• Zebaa Huq, HIJAB On The Job,(Drexel Law Review, Volume 18, Issue 4, Pp. 1005-1090 (2026)).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Muhammad Irfan Haroon this week has posted a number of articles written in July 2026: Nushuz and Daraba: Alleged Marital Misconduct and Physical and Mental Abuse of Women;  Maal or Mirage? Mufti Taqi Usmani's Fatwa on Cryptocurrency and the Future of Digital Assets in Islamic Jurisprudence;  Ṣulḥ Revisited: Islamic Reconciliation and the Making of Modern Alternative Dispute Resolution;  The RIBA Trap: A Structural and Jurisprudential Analysis of Interest's Grip on Pakistan's Economy;  Beyond the Label: Re-examining the Structural Distinctiveness of Islamic Banking in the Context of Pakistan's Constitutional Transition to a Riba-free Economy.
• Muhammad Irfan Haroon & Nikah Mushkil Zina Asan, The Commercialisation of Marriage in Pakistan, the Inverted Cost of Halal and Haram, and the Case for a Return to Nikah's Original Simplicity, (July 12, 2026).
• Abu Hayyan Saeed, A Critical, Selective Study of the Narrators of Tafasir al-Quranm, (July 04, 2026).
• Iqrq Naz, Alternative Dispute Resolution Islamic Principles and Modern Practice, (December 10, 2025).
• Armine Saakyan, Inheritance in Muslim Law, (June 06, 2026).
• Yaoharee Lahtee, The Architecture of Faqr, (July 19, 2026).
• Ingrid Dingelstad-Frankova, The Institutionalisation and Investigation of Zakat as a Revenue Instrument: The Islamic State, 2014-2017, (July 23, 2026)

From SmartCILP:

• Haoyuan Ding & Chang Xue & Yu Zhang, Blessing from the Sage: Guan Yu Worship and Financial Development in China.  69 Journal of Law & Economics 21-52 (2026).
• Salwa Tabassum Hoque, Rethinking Marriage: Blurring the "Legal" and the "Social", 51 Law & Social Inquiry 142-179 (2025).

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Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Sarah Barringer Gordon, The Holy Cause: Church and State in Revolutionary and Early National New York, (December 20, 2025).
• Dennis Wieboldt, The Study of Jesuit, Catholic Legal Education: An Idea and a Program, (2 Jesuit Ed. Q. 155 (2026)).
• Isaac Barnes May, AI Companies as Conscientious Objectors: RFRA and the Refusal to Design Autonomous Weapons, (June 30, 2026).
• Dennis Wieboldt, William Bentley Ball and the "Century of Struggle" for School Choice, (51 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. __ (2026)).
• Travis Gilly, The Exemption They Cannot Reach: Mandated Scripture, Mahmoud v. Taylor, and the Self-Defeating Logic of the Academic Defense, (June 28, 2026).
• Almaz Assan, The Matrix Model of Layered Subjectivity: Deconstructing Radical Political Theology in a Post-secular World, (June 15, 2026).
• Deborah Machalow, Miscarriage of Democracy: What Happened in Arkansas, Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota to Defeat Abortion-Related Ballot Measures in 2024, (April 11, 2025).
• Jeremy Christiansen, Natural Law, Unjust Laws, and Judicial Recusal: A Response to the "Natural Law" Originalists, (Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, Volume 41 (2026).
• Melissa Murray & Katherine Shaw, The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs, (Virginia Law Review, Vol. 112, p. 1, 2026).
• Trevor Reynolds, I Am a Person Too: The State's Failure to Secure Transgender Rights and Personhood, (Richmond Public Interest Law Review, Volume 28, No. 3. Pp. 331–352 (2025).

From SSRN (Issues in Middle Eastern Nations):

• Michal Saliternik, Yoav Sapir, Jonathan Yovel, Ori Aronson & Yair Lorberbaum, The Reintroduction of the Death Penalty in Israel: A Critical Assessment, (Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft, volume 138, issue 2, 2026).
• Ingrid Dingelstad-Frankova, The Institutionalisation and Investigation of Zakat as a Revenue Instrument: The Islamic State, 2014-2017, (July 23, 2026). 

From SSRN (Issues in South Asian Nations):

• Mohammed Afeef Saadulla, Ethnicizing Law: The Hindu Majoritarian Project to Convert Muslim Places of Worship in India, (November 30, 2025).
• Arafat Rahman Akram, Legal Issues Affecting Consent to Marry: A Comparative Study of Bangladesh, Malaysia and the United Kingdom, (June 20, 2026).
• Sharat Fatema Angelic, Legal Issues Affecting the Non-registration of Marriage: A Comparative Study of Bangladesh, Malaysia and the United Kingdom, (June 10, 2026).
• Liaqat Ali Khoso, Sacred Spaces, Shattered Lives: Institutional Child Sexual Abuse in Pakistan’s Religious Seminaries and the Imperative for Systemic Reform, (July 18, 2026).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Muhammad Irfan Haroon, Khulʿ in Pakistan: Between Sharīʿah Principle and Judicial Practice: A Practitioner's Critical Analysis, (July 01, 2026).
• Arafat Rahman Akram & Sharat Fatema Angelic, The Concept of Shūrā and its Contemporary Application in Governance and Law: An Islamic Perspective, (June 29, 2026).
• Michael J. T., McMillen, Islamic Finance in North America: A Highly Abbreviated, Ruthlessly Selective, and Overtly Personal History, (June 16, 2026).
• Muhammad Irfan Haroon, The Place and Respect of Women in Islam (May 27, 2026).
• Muhammad Irfan Haroon, A Wife's Unconditional Right to Maintenance: Analysing the Supreme Court of Pakistan's Jurisprudence in Ambreen Akram v. Asad Ullah, (July 06, 2026).
• Sharat Fatema Angelic, Talaq Tafwid and Khulu' Divorce: A Comparative Legal Analysis of Women's Right to Divorce in Bangladesh and Pakistan, (June 10, 2026).
• Arafat Rahman Akram, Criminalizing Triple Talaq: A Comparative Study of India, Bangladesh and Malaysia, (June 23, 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

 From SSRN:

• Nicola Lucchi, Public Order, Morality, and their Religious Foundations in Patent Law, (in E. Bonadio, N. Lucchi; B. Khan (eds), IP & Religion (Forthcoming, Hart Publishing, 2026)).
• Jon Auror, From Rest to Attendance: The 2004 Proclamation of Ahn Shil Il (安 侍日) and Calendrical Innovation in the Unification Movement, (June 26, 2026).
• Joung Hwang, The Misspecified Canon and the Failure of Cultural Updating, (June 25, 2026).
• Nicolin Decker, The Tithe as Ecclesiastical Economic Restraint Doctrine: Provision, Humility, and the Architecture of Spiritual Authority, (June 21, 2026).
• Anton Sorkin, How Law Schools Can Better Cultivate a Culture of Engagement and Dialogue, (June 22, 2026).
• Charles Plambeck & Brooks Graebner, The Road to Disestablishment: Church-State Relations in Colonial North Carolina and the Constitution of 1776, (May 02, 2026).
• Donata Anna Garsia, After the Natural Law: A Review Essay on J. L. Hill's Account of the Classical Worldview, (July 08, 2026).
• Christian "Cece" Worley, What About the Black Church’s History and Tradition? Exposing Covert Religious Establishment in “History and Tradition” Jurisprudence, (May 05, 2026).
• Thomas A. Smith, Catholic Constitutional Republicanism: Suarez, the School of Salamanca, and the American Law of Public Power, (July 13, 2026).
• Cathay Smith, A Religious Organization is Suing its Critics, and the Weapon of Choice is Copyright—RRT v. Cheryl Bawtinheimer, (March 17, 2026).
• Bruce Davis, Indecent Exposure And The Court As Custos Morum, (March 31, 2024).
• Eric Heinze, Natalie Alkiviadou, Tom Herrenberg, Sejal Parmar & Ioanna Tourkochoriti, The Oxford Handbook of Hate Speech: General Introduction, (Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 490 (2026)).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Bahman Khodadadi, Between Orthodoxy and Reform: Theorizing the Suspension of Islamic Corporal Punishments in Shiʿi Theocracy (June 15, 2026).
• Muhammad Irfan Haroon, "The Two-finger Test in Pakistani Rape Law: A Constitutional, Comparative, and Hanafi Critique", (June 27, 2026).
• Syed Muhammad Usman Ghani & Bilal Hussain, The Role of the Council of Islamic Ideology in the Promotion of Islamic Thought in Pakistan, (June 30, 2025).
• Elvir (Nedžad) Muslić, The Branches of Faith, (June 26, 2026).
• Mohd Muaaz Ansari, Karbala and the Modern Muslim: A Forgotten Legacy of Awakening, (June 20, 2026).
• Khuda Bakhsh, Form or Substance? A Uṣūlī and Maxim-Based Appraisal of Car Financing in Pakistani Islamic Banking, with Special Reference to Diminishing Mushārakah (Mushārakah Mutanāqiṣah), (June 19, 026).
• Muhammad Asif Khan & Qaisar Abbas, Marriage, Contribution, and Retained Enrichment: Towards a Classificatory Framework for Pakistani Law, (June 26, 2026).
• Osama S. Qatrani, When a Latin Chronicle Made the Muslim Caliph Judge the Christian King: King John’s Alleged Embassy to the Almohad Court (1212), (June 18, 2026).
• Saad Khizar Bosal, Before Ḥasan al-Baṣrī: The Khutba Fadakiyya as the Founding Document of Islamic Kalām A Computational Theology Analysis with Ṣadrān, Akbarian, and Muṭahharī Frameworks, (June 20, 2026).
• Irman Syahriar, Indera Dewi, Fifi Loanardy, Jamil Khairunnisah & Bukak Hussain, Judicial Neutrality in Corruption Trials: A Contemporary Islamic Law Perspective on Independence in Transitional Legal Systems, (December 31, 2025).
• Mohammad Tareque, Al-Bayʿ, Al-Dayn and Al-Ribā: A Qurʾān-First Reconstruction of Deferred Commercial Obligation, Ribā Escalation, and Debt Governance, (June 13, 2026).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• SYMPOSIUM, In Search of Common Ground: Religion and Secularism in a Liberal Democratic Society, 100 Chicago Kent Law Review 485-934 (2025).
• Amanda Harmon Cooley, Complicit Nullification: The Illegitimate (Abrogation) of School Religious Liberty Precedent, 47 Cardozo Law Review 975-1044 (2026).
• Arvind Kurian Abraham, America at 250: A “Christian Nation,” But Which Christianity?, Balkinization, July 17, 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Travis Gilly, The Church the Law Cannot Refuse: Automated Ministry, Disability Access, and the Collapse of the Church-Definition Tests, (July 06, 2026),
• Assaf Likhovski, Book review of Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History, by Simon Rabinovitch, (August 13, 2025).
• Kaathleen Brady & Steven J. Heyman,  Introduction to Symposium - In Search of Common Ground: Religion and Secularism in a Liberal Democratic Society, (100 Chicago-Kent Law Review 485 (2025)).
• Francesco Parisi & Maria Chiara Parisi, Comparative Equality, (Research Handbook on the Philosophical Foundations of Comparative Law (Siliquini-Cinelli, Gianti and Monateri, eds., forthcoming 2026)).
• Jamel Akbar, Intergenerational Rights Without Democracy: A Tailored Rights Framework, (2026).
• Laura Portuondo, What Personhood Means, (124 Mich. L. Rev. 1303 (2026)).
• R. George Wright, School-Sponsored Student Speech Today, (June 16, 2026).

From SSRN (LGTBQ Issues):

• Henry F. Fradella, Facially Neutral, Functionally Not: Law, Discretion, and the Status-Based Regulation of LGBTQ Identity in the Shadow of Equal Protection, (May 07, 2026).
• Deven Pierre, Using EMTALA To Achieve Gender Affirming Care, (May 27, 2026).
• Ifran Haroon, Between Constitutional Protection and Lived Exploitation: A Critical Assessment of the Khwaja Sira Community and the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018 in Pakistan, (July 07, 2026).

From SSRN (Islamic Law Issues):

• Syed Muaz Shah, Sexual Violence During Armed Conflict and Other Situations of Sexual Violence in the Islamic Historical Perspective, (September 12, 2025).
• Syed Tufail Ahmed, Islamic Human-in-the-Loop Governance for Responsible AI (I-HITL), (June 14, 2026).
• Zubair Abbasi, Judicial Treatment of Religious-Only Marriages Under English Matrimonial Laws, (June 14, 2026).

From SmartCILP:

• Amanda Hollis-Brusky, The Roberts Court's Judicial Zealotry, 72 UCLA L. Rev. 1392-1441 (2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Kevin Crow, Subjects and Objects of God: Non-state Normative Orders and International Corporate Theology, (June 07, 2026).
• Stephanie H. Barclay, Making Laws for the Human Mind: The Founding, Free Exercise, and Parental Rights after Mahmoud and Mirabelli, (June 28, 2026).
• Kerolos Kamal Rezk, The Metastasis of Infallibility and the Architecture of Factionalism A Socio-Ecclesiastical Study of Functional Sacredness, Monastic Sovereignty, and Faith Deconstruction in the Contemporary Coptic Context, (June 24, 2026).
• Tayson DeLengocky, D.O., Pilgrimage Under Siege: The Complete Story of Thích Minh Tuệ: A Silent Ascetic Under Global Watch; Part I: The Pilgrimage Before the Phenomenon (Chapters I-IV), (June 23, 2026).
• Tayson DeLengocky, D.O., Dharma and the State: Trần Nhân Tông and the Constitutional History of Buddhism in Vietnam, (June 14, 2026).
• Acharya Pt Dr Avdhesh Kumarr, Rebirth and Near-Death Experiences: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Study of Consciousness and Survival Hypotheses, (June 09, 2026).
• Sonia M. Suter & Naomi R. Cahn, IVG in a Post-Dobbs/Skrmetti World: Parentage, Personhood & Regulation, (Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2026-35 (2026).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Samia Jaman Karobi , Legal Language and Human Dignity in Muslim Marriage Documentation: A Critical Study of Kabinnama and Talaqnama in Bangladesh (June 08, 2026).
• Shehzad Ahmed & Rafiqul Bhuyan, The Jurisprudential Boundaries of an Interest-Free Substrate: Riba, Gharar, Maysir, and Qabd in Cash-Settled Synthetic Instruments, (June 09, 2026).
• Shehzad Ahmed & Rafiqul Bhuyan, Money as a Mirror: Classical Islamic Monetary Ontology and the Foundations of Interest-Free Pricing, (June 09, 2026).
• Muhammad Bilal Gill, Between Faith and Aspiration: Religion, Patriarchy, and the Educational Aspirations of Young Women in Pakistan, (June 08, 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Ayaga Max Liambilah & Miracle Mudeyi, Thou Shalt Not Replace Humanity: A Commentary on Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI and the Digital Age, (The Platform Magazine, Volume 125, June 2026 Issue).
• Alexander Yu. Monakhov, Religion as a Legal Argument: Three Legal Collisions Concerning Russia, Ukraine, and the Vatican, (June 03, 2026).
• Lynne Marie Kohm, C.S. Lewis’ Enduring and Unpretentious Lessons on Stepparent Child Custody - Part 1: “A Ticklish Job” — The Story Behind the Custody Crisis, (June 01, 2026).
• Mark Storslee, Free Exercise and Funding, (Notre Dame L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)).
• Christopher C. Lund, Religious Liberty and the New Ten Commandments Cases, (Wayne State University Law School Research Paper (forthcoming)).
• Zachary D. Fasman & Samuel Estreicher, Institutional Liability for Campus Harassment of Jewish Students, (June 06, 2026).
• Daniel J. Hemel, Madisonian Nonprofit Law, (64 Harvard Journal on Legislation (forthcoming 2027)).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Oruj Ismayilov, The Readable Cosmos: Science, Consciousness, and the Qurʼanic Concept of Āyāt, (May 23, 2026).
• Oruj Ismayilov, The Readability of Reality: Information, Consciousness, and the Metaphysics of Meaning, (June 05, 2026).
• Irfan Haroon, Islamic Banking in Pakistan: Shariah Compliance or Rebranded Riba? A Critical Analysis, June 02, 2026).
• Syafiq Izwan Ramlan, Reconceptualising Fiqh Muamalat Through Contemporary Theory Development Analysis (June 03, 2026).
• Irfan Haroon, Islamic Banking: Halal or Haram? The Accountant's Verdict and the Regulator's Confession: A Critical Legal and Financial Analysis, (June 02, 2026).
• Osama S. Qatrani, Justice, Mercy, and the Spirit of Law: Is Law a Tool of Punishment, Guidance, Accountability, Protection, or Revenge?, (June 05, 2026).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Nicole Stelle Garnett & John A. Meiser, Two Questions for School-Choice Funding After Carson, 24 First Amendment Law Review 157-194 (2026).
• Lori Freedman, Debra Stulberg & Elizabeth Reiner Platt, Not Here or There: How Catholic Hospital Abortion Bans Interact with State Bans, 28 Journal of Health Care Law & Policy 180-198 (2025).
• Itamar Rosensweig & Shua Mermelstein, Dignity, Equality, and the Duty of Assistance, 40 Touro Law Review 715-741 (2025).
• Kevin Tempe, Private Religious Schools and Disability Discrimination, 40 Touro Law Review 787-813 (2025).
• Aaron Tang & Ethan Hunt, "Original History" and the Free Exercise Case for Religious Charter Schools, 103 Washington University Law Review 639-704 (2026).
• Arvind Kurian Abraham, Remembering Gordon Wood: Religion and the Republic, (Balkinization blog, June 10, 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Johnny Davis, The Church, Statism, and a Biblical Worldview of Government, (May 03, 2026).
• Abraham Chan, When Tithing Becomes Fraud: Registration-Contingent Criminalization of Religious Economic Life in China, (June 04, 2026).
• Levi Cooper, Rabbi Mosheh Isserles and the Codification of Jewish Law, (Historical Atlas of Jewish Galicia and Bukovina, eds. Nathan Shifriss, Judith Kalik, and Levi Cooper, 2025).
• Jermaine E. Whiteside, Faithful Intelligence: A Theological Governance Framework for Artificial Intelligence in Interreligious Religious Education, (May 30, 2026).
• Robert J. Miller, Unraveling the International Law of Colonialism - The Doctrine of Discovery, (Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Paper No. 6884840 (2026)).
• Victoria Litman, Rethinking the Religious Purpose Test After Catholic Charities Bureau: The Sincerity-Then-Standards Framework, (August 01, 2025).
• Cynthia Soohoo, True Abolition: Dismantling Criminal Abortion Laws and Building Policies to Realize Reproductive Justice, (The Harbinger | VOL. 53 | June 2026).
• Tristin K. Green, Beyond Personal Offense in Antidiscrimination Law, (Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Legal Studies Research Paper No. 101 (2026)).
• Hosea Michael Horneman, Wrongful Death of Frozen Human Embryos (June 12, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6928859

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Irfan Haroon, When Husband and Wife Commit Zina - A Prophetic Warning and Its Manifestation in Contemporary Muslim Society — A Study in the Light of Sahih Bukhari, Islamic Jurisprudence, and Pakistani Family Law, (May 30, 2026).
• Ahmer Bilal Soofi, Article 1 of the Genocide Convention 1948 and the Qur'an (4:75) Are Pari Materia, (May 28, 2026).
• Ahmad M. Dipu, Competing Models of Islamic Legal Modernity: Jurisprudential Authority, Codification, and State Legitimacy in Saudi Arabia and Iran with Implications for Bangladesh, (June 04, 2026).
• Ekaterina Ryzhkova, Evolution of Fiqh: Lessons from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, (March 20, 2026).

From Elsewhere:

• Osama S. Qatrani, When a Latin Chronicle Made the Muslim Caliph Judge the Christian King: King John's Alleged Embassy to the Almohad Court (1212), (Zenodo, June 18, 2026).
• Osama S. Qatrani, Justice, Mercy, and the Spirit of Law: Is Law a Tool of Punishment, Guidance, Accountability, Protection, or Revenge?, (Academia, 2026).
• Steven H. Sholk, A Guide to Election Year Activities of Section 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) Organizations, (June 2, 2026 Edition).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Edgar A. Fernandez-Lopez, Turandot and the Exhaustion of Power: Ritual, Genealogy, Sacrifice, and the Twilight of Civilizations (June 06, 2026).
• Amir Downing, Religious Land Use Exceptionalism: The Meaning of "Substantial Burden" in RLUIPA, (Virginia Law Review, forthcoming March 2027).
• Dwight G. Newman & Kenechukwu Aneke, Associational Freedom in the Contexts of Religion and Sports. (Supreme Court Law Review, 3rd Series, Volume 14 (forthcoming)).
• Johnny Davis, Christian Nationalism, Trump, the Rise of the Far Right vs. a True Biblical Worldview, March 21, 2026).
• Gaston Rey, Magnifica Humanitas as the Constitution of Human Supremacy in the Digital Age, (May 28, 2026).
• Irfan Haroon, Redefining Harassment at the Workplace: A Critical Analysis of the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s Landmark Review Judgment, (May 28, 2026).
• Mahmoud A. El-Gamal, Zakāh as Tithe: Fiscal Engineering in Early Islamic Jurisprudence, (June 11, 2026).
• Stephen Greenway, Distinguishing Religion From Nonreligion After Catholic Charities, (Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, & Public Policy, Volume 40 (forthcoming 2026)).
• Laura Snyder, A Tale of Two Emigrations: Why the Pope Needs Protection from the United States, (May 18, 2026).

From SmartCILP:

• Alex Reed, The Class Action Fairness Act Amendments Act: A Proposal, 46 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 271-312 (2025).
• Yael Efron, Religious Conflicts in Disguise: The Limits of the Law in Tackling Conflicts with Religious Dimensions, 27 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 39-66 (2025).
• Bahman Khodadadi, The Theocratic Agency of the Iranian Legal System at the Legislative and Judicial Levels, 36 Yale Journal of Law & Humanities 251-274 (2025).
• S. Spencer Wells, Disciplining Conscience: Judging Ecclesiastical Courts in the Early American Republic, 36 Yale Journal of Law & Humanities 327-345 (2025).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• John Witte, Jr. & Andrea Pin, The Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom: Human Rights in the United States and Europe, (Notre Dame Press, April 2026).
• Mark A. Walters, Imran Awan, Mika Hagerlid, Alexander Kondakov, & Jennifer Schweppe, De Gruyter European Handbook on Hate Crime, (Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, April 2026).
• John Duddington, The Legal Legacy of the Reformation: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law, (Routledge, forthcoming July 2026).
• Donald L. Drakeman, The Free Exercise Clause and the Rights of Conscience, (Harvard University Press, forthcoming November 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Muhammad Munir, Depriving Women from their Qur'anic Shares in Inheritance: The Application of Statute of Limitation to Claims of Inheritance by the Courts in Pakistan, (May 20, 2026).
• Akshay Rajput, "Whether the Jewish Community in India Requires a Separate Personal Law Board: A Constitutional and Comparative Analysis", (May 22, 2026).
• Audra Savage, Slavery and the Myth of Religious Liberty, (BYU Law Review, Volume 51, Issue 5, pp. 1363-1408 (2026)).
• Jeffrey A. Brauch, Is the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice the Answer to the Religious Freedom Challenges in West Africa?, (African Human Rights Law Journal, Volume 26, No. 1, pp. 55-97 (2026)).
• Paul G. Cassell, The Clergy-Penitent Privilege and Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: A Response to Sacred Secrets Enabling Child Sex Abuse, (49 Law & Psychol. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)).
• Austin Smith, Lucius Caviola, & Heather Alexander, Denying Personhood to AI: An Analysis of U.S. State Legislation on AI Legal Status, (May 25, 2026).
• Joseph Kwaku Asamoah & Daniel Bewel, Medical Negligence and Religious Faith in Ghana: Reconciling Autonomy, Vulnerability, and Constitutional Rights, (June 03, 2026).
• Alshaymaa Alharbi, The Interpretation and Application of Uniform Substantive Law in Shari’ah Courts: A CISG Case Study, (April 06, 2026).
• Zainuddin, Behind The Talaq Pledge: The Husband’s Non-Compliance with Paying Iddah and Mut’ah Alimony in Talaq Divorce Cases at Religious Court in Indonesia, (Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice, Volume 22, Issue 1. Pp. 298-313 (2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Nathan B. Oman, "All Other Religious Sects Shall Have Free Toleration": Recovering the Early Mormon Conception of Religious Freedom, (Journal of Mormon History (forthcoming)).
• Michael Foran, Single Sex Spaces in the Workplace Following For Women Scotland, (Industrial Law Journal (Forthcoming)).
• Kasturi Sharma, Digital Cattle: Reimagining Livestock Microfinance Through Blockchain-Enabled Islamic Finance (May 26, 2026).
• Miranda Perry Fleischer, Symmetry and Speech: Nonprofits and the First Amendment, (103 Washington University (St. Louis) Law Review (forthcoming)).
• Linda C. McClain, Formal Victories and Roads Not Taken: Excavating Departures and Throughlines in Challenges to the Place of Marriage, (105 Boston University Law Review online 69 (2025)).
• Meghan Boone, Rationally Regulating Abortion, (July 01, 2025).
• Janet Koven Levit, Reproductive Rights on Campus, (Syracuse Law Review | Vol. 76:159 | 2026).
• Biff Baker, Transgenders in the Workplace: Governance Challenges for Organizational Leaders, (May 08, 2026).
• Suzanne B. Goldberg, Legal Scapegoating of Transgender People, Democratic Vulnerability, and the Problem of Judicial Blinders, (May 07, 2026).

From SmartCILP:

• Robert Showers, Justin Colemen & William R. Thetford, Sacred Spaces, Scattered Statutes: Understanding Virginia's Fragmented Church Law: Part One, 38 Regent University Law Review 1-45 (2025).
• Alfonso Gunaratnam & David Schultz, The Roberts Court and Religion: Hail Mary Goes Mainstream, 19 Charleston Law Review 581-632 (2025).
• Linda C. McLain & James E. Fleming, "What Shall Be Orthodox" in Polarized Times: Overview and Response to Commentators, 90 Missouri Law Review 659-712 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Yaoharee Lahtee, Marginal Hegemony in Thailand: Satire, the Muslim Minority, and the Politics of Power-literate Critique, (May 13, 2026).
• Shai Stern, From Classroom to Courtroom and Back: Exit, Voice, and the Struggle Over Public Education in America, (74 Buffalo Law Review 307 (2026)).
• Christopher C. Lund, The Wit and Wisdom of Douglas Laycock, (Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 41, p. 1, 2026 (festschrift)).
• Guy Baldwin, Positive Obligations to Protect the Population under Human Rights Law, (Judicial Review, volume 30, issue 3, 2025).
• Anna Lukina, Evil Law in St. Thomas Aquinas's Philosophy, (LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 7/2026).
• Rachel Kincaid, Deliberately Silenced, (December 31, 2025).
• Thomas Wuil Joo, A Long Story: Queues, Dreadlocks, and Cycles in Civil Rights History, (34 Asian Am. L. J. --- (forthcoming 2027)).
• Bernard W. Bell, Just Talk: Professional Regulation and Medical Malpractice Litigation After Chiles v. Salazar, (Rutgers Law School Research Paper Forthcoming).
• Mimi Marziani & Patrick Archer, Weaponized Oversight: Texas’s Escalating Campaign Against Nonprofit Advocacy & the Chilling Effect on Speech and Association, (45 Rev. Litig. (forthcoming 2026)).
• Egzon Musa, Freedom of Manifestation of Religion and Belief: Considerations from Constitutional Law and the Practice of the ECHR, (January 26, 2026).

From SSRN (Abortion Rights):

• Sara Ainsworth & Leigh Goodmark, Defending Imperfect Victims from Self-Managed Abortion Criminalization: Why Evidence of Intimate Partner Violence Matters, (97 University of Colorado Law Review 1267 (2026)).
• Elizabeth Kukura, Abortion, Power, and the Future of Healthcare, (April 01, 2026).
• Miranda McGowan, Dobbs’s Radical Remaking of the Fourteenth Amendment, (April 23, 2026). 

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Shahid Mahmood, Stages in the Development of the Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, (May 13, 2026).
• Azfar Samin, Reassessing Prophetic Literacy and the Written Transmission of Revelation: A Linguistic and Textual Analysis of the Qurʾān, (May 11, 2026).
• Sherifat Ajoke Dauda, An Analytical Study of Zihar and Illa under Islamic Family Law: Safeguarding Women's Dignity under Shariah, (September 30, 2025).
• Shahid Mahmood, The Da'wah Strategy of Prophet Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬ during the Makkan Period, (May 13, 2026).
• Stanislav Ageev, Implementation of AAOIFI Standards as a Legal Basis for Partnership Financing in International Projects Involving Russia, (April 03, 2026).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Clark L. Hildabrand, Judging Values: Public Confidence in the Federal Courts' Approach to Religion & Morality, 55 University of Memphis Law Review 979-1020 (2025).
• Arvind Kurian Abraham, The Ten Commandments Case: Constitutional Erastianism, Balkinization (May 11, 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Chad G. Marzen & William Woodyard, Pope Francis: The Progressive Pope of American Jurisprudence, (May 06, 2026).
• Christopher D. Hampson, For the Word of God is Posted and Passive, (University of Florida Levin College of Law Research Paper, Forthcoming).
• Vincent Bocchinfuso, How Hate Learned to Speak: Civil Rights Language, Institutional Shielding, and Reciprocal Standards, (May 08, 2026).
• Sachin Gupta, Sungjin Kim & Anirban Mukherjee, Is Volunteering a Gateway to Increased Monetary Giving? Evidence from a Field Experiment, (Marketing Letters, volume 37, issue 1, 2026).
• Aaron J. Saiger & Abner S. Greene, Religious Schools and the Secular State:  A Dialogue, (42 J. L. & Religion__ (2027)).
• Abu Hayyan Saeed, Human Reason, God, and Faith : A Kantian, Classical, Comparative Western, Eastern and Religious Perspective, (May 01, 2026).

From SSSRN (Reproductive Rights):

• David S. Cohen & Rachel Rebouche, The Origin and Future of Shield Laws, (94 UMKC L. Rev. 541 (2026)).
• Carole J. Petersen, From the Right to Choose to the Virtuous Victims?: Advocating for Reproductive Justice in the United States After Dobbs, (54.1 Denver Journal of International Law & Policy 1-26 (2025)).
• Eve Hanan, Presumed Guilt: Epistemic Closure in Pregnancy Prosecutions, (December 31, 2025).

From SSRN (Transgender Rights):

• Marc Spindelman, United States v. Skrmetti: On Realism, Reason, and Hope, (April 15, 2026).
• Susan Keller, The Double-Edged Rhetoric of Parental Rights: Conflicts between Freedom and Control in Cases Concerning Transgender Youth, (21 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy (2026)).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Oruj Ismayilov, Destiny, Free Will, and Divine Justice: An Analysis of the Concept of Trial and the Metaphysics of Oppression through a Qur'anic Perspective, (December 18, 2025).
• Abu Hayyan Saeed, The Evolution of Islamic Thought: Practical Implementation of the Qur'anic System and Related Studies, (February 04, 2026).
• Azfar Samin & Bashir Malik, The Qur'an, Hadith, and the Debate on Marriageable Age: A Textual Analysis, (September 30, 2025).

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

• Marek Antos, Filip Horak, Filip Jeline & Ondřej Preuss, Religious Neutrality and Treaty-Based Privileges: The Czech Constitutional Court on the Holy See Concordat, (May 04, 2026).
• Nikhil Dongre, Refugee Protection in India in the Absence of Specific Legislation: Legal Analysis, (May 01, 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Reva B. Siegel & Mary Ziegler, Dismantling Equality Rights Through "Biological-Sex" Talk, (105 Texas L. Rev. (forthcoming 2027)).
• Christopher C. Lund, Catholic Charities and the Coming War Over Religious Exemptions, (First Amendment Law Review, Vol. 24, p. 291, 2026 (symposium)).
• Christopher C. Lund, Soft Establishment, Religious Education, and Stone v. Graham, (Journal of Catholic Legal Studies (invited) (forthcoming 2026)).
• Luigi Zito, The Tiberian Senatus Consultum of 35 CE as External Legal Evidence of Early Christology, (Aequitas Magazine - Journal of Law and Legal Culture, Volume 2, 2026).
• Lewis S. Davis, Religious Orientations, Religious Beliefs, and Homophobia, (April 14, 2026).
• Erlang Tang, From McCarthyism to Bostock: The Judicial Evolution of Anti-Discrimination in Employment for Sexual Minorities in the United States, (Labor History, volume 67, issue 2, 2026).
• David S. Cohen & Carole Joffe, Continued Resistance and Resilience After Dobbs, (April 01, 2026).
• Alejandra Aldana Saravia, Reproductive Rights, Prenatal Personhood, and Constitutional Interpretation: A Legal, Biological and Ethical Analysis, (June 01, 2025).
• Avishai Akiva Dos-Lobitos, Yachas V'edut: The Covenant America Forgot, The Lineage the Costitution Named ‫ת‬ ‫דּו‬ ‫ֵע‬ ‫ּו‬ ‫ס‬ ‫ַח‬ ‫ַי‬, (April 04, 2026).
• Zalman Rothschild, Vaccines, Religious Liberty, and the GVR as Doctrinal Signal,. Harvard Law Review Forum (forthcoming).

From SSRN (Religious Philosophy):

• Elowen Hartley, Baruch Schwarz & Peregrine Shaw, Sacred Ambiguity: Folk Christianity and the Ontological Defense of the De-divinized African Body, (February 11, 2026).
• Donata Garsia, The Rawls Theological Paradox: His Original Position and the Architecture of Justice, (February 18, 2026).
• Brian Murray, Aquinas, Wilson, and Continuity on Crime and Punishment, (75 Catholic University Law Review 421 (2025)).
• Vincent Liu, The (In)justice of God: Wildness and the Love of Jesus Christ, (May 01, 2026).

From SSRN (Non-U.S. Law)

• Rabitah Khandoker, Quebec Bill 21: A Violation of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, (January 06, 2026).
• Kenneth Grad, Beyond Public Law: Recognizing a Tort Remedy for Hate Speech in Canada,(Constitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel, volume 34, issue 4, 2026).
• Shanaz Joan Parsan, From Bill C-63 to Bill C-9: Charter Limits on Canada's Emerging Hate and Online-Speech Regulation, (March 16, 2026).
• Ratu Durotun Nafisah, Judging and Social Cohesion: The Case of Interfaith Marriage in Indonesia, (Asian Journal of Law and Society (2026))
• Acharya Pt Dr Avdhesh Kumarr, From Totemism to Brahmanism: Evolution of Religious Consciousness in India, (April 23, 2026).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Saif Ali, Beyond the Gender Binary: An Intersectional Analysis of Law and the Recognition of Transgender People in Pakistan, (April 14, 2025).
• Ahmer Bilal Soofi, Imam Husayn's Stand at Karbala: A Testament to Upholding the Sanctity of  the Quranic Covenant of Shu'ra, (April 15, 2026).
• Hidayatul Ihsan, Eliyanora & Gustina, Integrating Islamic Social Finance and Environmental Conservation: Evidence from Bogor and Mojokerto Waqf Forests (March 20, 2026).
• Yaoharee Lahtee, Three Layers, One Moon, (March 20, 2026).
• Munidher Contractor, Agency Within the Covenant, (March 16, 2026).
• Mohamed Ghandour, The Big Short Vs. the Big Shield: What the 2008 Crisis Taught Us About Islamic Finance, (July 16, 2025).
• Mohamed Ghandour, Developing Shariah Compliant Financing Models Through Financial Technology for SME Financing in Egypt: A Reverse Factoring Model for Raw Material Financing Based on POS and Digital Payments, (November 01, 2025).
• Mohamed Ghandour, Digital Dawn for Islamic Finance: Shariah Compliant Tokenization Explained, (December 10, 2025).
• Zubair Abbasi, Book Review: Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia. By Dominik Krell. Leiden: Brill, 2025, (March 01, 2026).

From SmartCILP:

• Linda C. McClain, Do Bans on Conversion Therapy Impose a Governmental "Orthodoxy" about Sex and Gender?, 105 Boston University Law Review 1263-1294 (2025).
• Heather Walter-McCabe, 303 Creative: The Public Perils of Ignoring Public Health Harms in LGBTQ Rights Cases, 27 Journal of Health Care Law & Policy 188-216 (2024).
• Julie Novkov, No Return: Caste and the End of the Liberal Debate Over U.S. Antidiscrimination Law, 85 Maryland Law Review 209-242 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Avishai Akiva Dos-Lobitos, The Condition of the Mother: Partus Sequitur Ventrem and the Construction of Hereditary Status in Colonial America, (April 21, 2026).
• Ahmer Bilal Soofi, Articles of Association as Covenants, (April 15, 2026).
• Shima Baradaran Baughman, A Justice Index, (April 16, 2026).
• Ian Klein,  In Bad Faith: The Binding of the Establishment Clause on the Altar of Free Exercise, (March 20, 2026).
• Antony Kolenc, Is God Pro-Choice as a Matter of Law? The Establishment Clause and State Abortion Bans, (December 01, 2025).
• Angela Cargill, The Domestic Urban Cult: Immigration Exploitation, Coercive Control, and Multi-State Criminal Networks in a U.S.-Based High-Control Group, (April 12, 2026).
• Seth Cook, The Role of Moral Language in Death Penalty Advocacy, (October 11, 2025).
• Isaac Barnes May, Progressive Religious Liberty: Countering Conservative Free Exercise Doctrine, (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Volume 31, forthcoming 2027).
• Patrick E. Reidy, C.S.C., YIGBY Laws, (February 28, 2026).
• William Bouviet, Religion and Political Power: Historical Intersections and Structures of Influence, (March 03, 2026).
• Simon Brake, Are Religious Nondiscrimination Clauses Religion-Neutral?, (January 31, 2026).
• Jesse Burnett, De Valore Vitae in Bello: On the Value of Life in War, (March 24, 2026).
• Chagit Schiff Blass & Netta Barak Corren, When Science Disagrees: How Courts Should Navigate Empirical Contradictions In Constitutional Law, (February 10, 2026).

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

• M, Muktha, Ambedkar's Constitutional Morality in Modern Indian Governance, (February 22, 2026).
• Natia Nakashidze, Divorce as a Dual Legal Reality: The Intersection of Civil and Ecclesiastical Orders and Its Property and Status Implications in Georgia, (April 13, 2026).
• Saif Ali, Beyond the Gender Binary: An Intersectional Analysis of Law and the Recognition of Transgender People in Pakistan, (April 14, 2025).
• Simran Kaur, "The Economics of Belief: Religion, Behavioral Change and Public Policy Interventions", (April 25, 2025).
• Matías I. Rizzone, The Constitution That Was Never There, (March 19, 2026).
• Robert C. Blitt, Recognizing and Responding to Religious Support for Illegal War: The Russian Orthodox Church's Role in Russia's Aggression Against Ukraine, (April 16, 2026).

From SSRN (Judaism and Jewish Law):

• Hershey H. Friedman, The Most Cherished of Virtues: Human Dignity (Kvod Habriyot) in Jewish Law from the Talmud to the Digital Age (March 30, 2026).
• Hershey H. Friedman, The Good Life: Talmudic Wisdom on Ethics, Character, and Human Flourishing, (April 15, 2026).
• Jacob Goldman, First English Translation of the Kesef Mishneh on Hilchot Mamrim by Rabbi Yosef Karo (March 22, 2026).

From SSRN (Religious Issues in Africa):

• Anthony S. Aladekomo, Scientific and Historical Proofs That All Races Descended from A Common Ancestor in Africa, (April 18, 2026).
• Faith Afolabi, The Architecture of Ecclesiastical Malfeasance: A Comprehensive Analysis of Institutional Corruption and Covert Operations within the Christian Association of Nigeria and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, (April 23, 2026).
• Daniel Clement Unachukwu, A Study of Matthew 20:20–28 in Relation to Pentecostal Churches Leadership in Nigeria, (May 10, 2024).

From SSRN (Islam and Islamic Law):

• Nasrullah Qureshi & Bibi Saima Amanullah, An Analysis of Empirical Analogies of Quran for Resurrection: A Case Study of Surah Ar Rum, (September 19, 2025).
• Oruj Ismayilov, Striving or Fighting? Jihād in the Qur'an, (April 04, 2026).

From SSRN (Religious Philosophy):

• Edgar A. Fernandez-Lopez, Self-Identification and Human Experience in Liquid Times How Labels Shape the Way We Understand Our Lives, (April 22, 2026).
• Roman Petrov, Lead-Related Indicators and Cross-National Variation in the Belief That Morality Requires God: An Exploratory Ecological Sensitivity Analysis, (April 10, 2026).
• Hendrik Gommer, From Grotius to Biology: The Evolution of Natural Law, (May 10, 2025).
• Shamsaddin Amanov, Jurisdictional Sovereignty: A Consent-Based Critique of Divine Authority, (March 01, 2026).
• William Bouviet, Digital Faith: The Transformation of Religious Experience in Algorithmic Environments, (March 06, 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Amanda Harmon Cooley, Subjugating Liberty, (March 23, 2026).
• Shreya Mandal, Between Recognition and Erasure: Scheduled Caste Jurisprudence, Religious Conversion, and the Intergenerational Afterlife of Caste, (March 25, 2026).
• Muhammad Munir, The Teachings of Imam 'Ali and the Principles of International Humanitarian Law: Making Warfare more Humane, (March 25, 2026).
• Faizan Kirmani, Qiṣāṣ: A Misinterpreted Concept of Qur'an, (March 27, 2026).
• Sarah Lee, Between Agent and Governor: Local Officials' Selective Implementation of Religious Policies in China, (Local Government Studies, 24 February, 2026).
• Jeremy Ross, Accommodation Without Anarchy: An Empirical Analysis of Free Exercise Doctrine, (35 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. (forthcoming 2027)).
• Anibal Rosario Lebrón, Opting Out of Subordination: Minors' Right to Control Their Bodies and Futures, (forthcoming 47 Cardozo Law Review __ (2026)).
• Deborah N. Archer & Joe Schottenfeld, Civil Rights Administration, (78 Stanford Law Review (forthcoming).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Spencer C. Weiler, et. al., The 50-Yard Line of Teachers' Rights: Examining School District Policy Pertaining to Employee Speech and Religious Expression following the Kennedy Decision, 24 First Amendment Law Review 1-51 (2025).
• Stephanie Hall Barclay & Mathew M. Krauter, The Untold Story of the Proto-Smith Era: Justice O'Connor's Papers and the Court's Free Exercise Revolution, 174 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 435-548 (2026).
• Australian Journal of Law & Religion, Volume 7, 2026.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Dennis Wieboldt, 'But The Original Intent of the Constitution Would be Restored': Catholic Legal Thought and the Emergence of First Amendment Originalism, 1947-87, (65 Am. J. L. Hist __ (2026)).
• Abraham Chan, Instrumentalization of Criminal Law in the Governance of House Churches in China: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Practice (2015-2025), (March 01, 2026).
• Brian Broderick, School "Choice" for Whom?: The Lingering Prospect of Religious Charter Schools After Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School v. Drummond, (February 01, 2026).
• Murad Zeynalli & Mary Peshoff, Holy Work: How Religiosity Shapes Local Labor Market Outcomes, (January 30, 2025).
• Whittney Barth, Assessing New Frontiers: When Religion and Conscience Meet AI at Work, (January 26, 2026).
• Frederick Mark Gedicks, Fun with Dick and Jane: Religious Conservative Privilege in Mahmoud v. Taylor, (24 First Amendment Law Review (forthcoming Spring 2026)).
• Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, The Future of Nonprofit Regulation in the United States: Three Dynamic Trends, (April 01, 2026).
• Cynthia Soohoo, Lessons Learned From Global Responses To Criminal Abortion Laws, (Fordham Law Review Online, Vol. 94, pp. 115-137 (2026).

From SSRN (Religious Philosophy and Doctrine):

• Mohammad Bagher Saeidi Roshan & Hossein Rezaei, The Telos of Religion and the Scope of the Prophetic Mission of Muhammad (January 01, 2026).
• Ronald J. Colombo, A Contractual Analysis of Petitionary Prayer, (25 Ave Maria L. Rev. __ (forthcoming in 2027).
• Hershey H. Friedman, The Tongue as a Moral Force: Speech, Consequence, and Responsibility in Talmudic Thought, (March 17, 2026).
• Steven Douglas Smith, Reading the Signs of the Times: Sorokin, MacIntyre, Maritain, (American Maritain Association Conference 2026).
• Tahibul Islam ibn Mohammad Foyzul Islam Al Sayyidi, Al-Azhar and Bangladesh: Advancing Collaborative Transregional Islamic Jurisprudences in Industrial South-East Asia and Modern Bangladesh (Late 19th to 21st Century) (December 10, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• James deBoer, No Exception for Ultra Vires Discrimination, 33 American University Journal of Gender, Social Pollicy & Law 139-162 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Carl H. Esbeck, Church Autonomy and the Co-Religionist Hiring Practice at Issue in Union Gospel Mission of Yakima v. Brown, 162 F. 4th 1190 (9th Cir. 2026), (Notre Dame Law Review Reflections __ (forthcoming 2026)).
• Deborah Cantrell, Assessing the Law and Mindfulness Movement, (U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 26-14 (2026)).
• Abubakar Yusuf Mamud, From Securitization to Open War: Media Framing, Alliance Politics, and the Collapse of Coercive Diplomacy in the United States (US)-Israeli Bombing of Iran, (March 13, 2026).
• Jeremy Ross, The End of Peremptory Strikes?: Free Exercise and Religion-Based Batson Challenges, (87 Mont. L. Rev. 11 (2026)).
• Marie-Amelie George, Protecting Trans Rights, (January 01, 2026).
• Cyra Akila Choudhury, Reproductive Crimes, Digital Evidence, And The Limits Of Privacy Law (March 22, 2026).
• Charlotte LeBarron, Abortion Surveillance and the Data Broker Loophole, (N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, Volume 28, No. 1, pp. 245-289 (2025)).
• Hershey H. Friedman, Inside the Biblical Mind: Chizkuni's Psychological Genius and the Art of Medieval Commentary, (March 15, 2026).

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

• Yeshwant Naik, Human Rights Violations Against the LGBTQ+ Community in Iran, (March 14, 2026).
• Firas Sallam, The Separation of Legitimacies: Rethinking Shūrā in Islamic Constitutional Architecture, (March 11, 2026).
• Adekunle Saheed Akinola, Judicial Restraint and the Politics of Dignity: Rethinking Constitutional Silence in Nigeria's Same-Sex Marriage Law, (November 12, 2025).
• Zubair Abbasi, Book Review: Siddiqui, Sohaira Z. M. Islamic Law on Trial: Contesting Colonial Power in British India. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025, (February 01, 2026).
• Zubair Abbasi, Reconstruction of Sharīʿa through Judicial Ijtihād Inheritance Rights of Childless Widows under the Ithnā ʿAshariyya School in Pakistan, (March 14, 2026).
• Jacqueline Anthonysamy & Marlina Jamal, (De)Legitimation of Restrictive Abortion in Selected Malaysian Mainstream and Independent Newspapers: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis, (Social Science and Humanities Open (2026)).

From SmartCILP:

• Charles J. Russo, Controversies over the Free Speech Rights of Educators to Avoid Using Pronouns Inconsistent with Their Religious Beliefs: "The Beginning of the End" or "the End of the Beginning?", 23 Ave Maria Law Review 145-164 (2025).
• Jordana R. Goodman, Patently Inequitable, 105 Boston University Law Review 987-1048 (2025).
• Neal C. Ternes & Joseph Sabin, Them's Fighting Prayers, 49 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 43-70 (2025).