Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Chad Flanders, Is Yoder v. Wisconsin Limited to Its Facts?, (Saint Louis U. Legal Studies Research Paper Series 2025-05).
• Josh McDaniel, Religious Minorities and Secular Rights, ((March 15, 2025). Liberty & Law Center Research Paper).
• Ahmer Bilal Soofi, The Quran's Covenantal Structure and Letters of the Prophet – Non-Use of Force in International Relations, (November 28, 2024).
• Carlos A. Ball, Supreme Court LGBTQ Orthodoxy, (forthcoming vol. 90 Missouri Law Review (2025)).
• Julia Cage & Malka Guillot, Is Charitable Giving Political? Evidence from Wealth and Income Tax Returns, ((March 01, 2025), CESifo Working Paper No. 11731).
• Michelle M. Wu, Exposing the Unconscious Bias in Abortion Laws Through Comparison with Routine Removal, (January 10, 2025).
• Nancy J. Knauer, LGBTQ Rights in an Age of Democratic Uncertainty: How to Counter the Politics of Eradication, (February 26, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• Josh A. Roth, No Escape: How the Library of Congress Weaponized Internal Relocation Against Persecuted Sikhs and How to Fight Back, 31 Asian American Law Journal 83-103 (2024).
• Nathan J. Ristuccia, Christianity and Originalism: The Machen Brothers and the Question of Legal Fundamentalism, 36 Regent University Law Review 251-292 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Sascha O. Becker, Amma Panin, Steven Pfaff & Jared Rubin, Religion and Economic Development: Past, Present, and Future, (CESifo Working Paper No. 11724 (2025)).
• Steven Douglas Smith, The Once and Future Freedom of the Church: Three Stories, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 25-008 (2025).
• Nausica Palazzo, The Religion of Illiberals and the Anti-Gender Backlash, (Law & Ethics of Human Rights, 18 (2):107-137 (2024)).
• Elizabeth Sepper, James David Nelson & Charlotte Garden, Expressive Association at Work, (124 Michigan Law Review__ (forthcoming 2026)).
• Dylan Morrissey, How Bruen and Dobbs Resolved Opposing Historical Traditions Through Hidden Equal Protection Analysis, (Forthcoming, Columbia Law Review Forum, Vol. 125, May 2025).
• Teresa Stanton Collett, Partial Personhood for the Unborn, (January 28, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• Journal of Law & Religion, Vol. 39, Issue 2 (May 2024).
• Vrinda Narain, What's Love Got to Do with It? Anti-Love Jihad Laws and the Othering of Muslims in India, 30 UCLA Journal of Gender & Law 167-202 (2023).
• Maggie Crain, Fear and Loathing in Animus: Moral Panic, the Contextualizing Tool for Challenging Gender-Affirming Care Bans, 39 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender, & Society 21-54 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Melvin Otey, Toward a Broader Theocentric Environmentalism, (December 01, 2024).
• Robert C. Blitt, From Zero to Holy War: The International Community's Ongoing Silence in the Face of the Russian Orthodox Church's Escalating Support for War Against Ukraine, (February 03, 2025).
• Kerrel Murray, Discriminatory Effect(s), (78 Fla. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2026)).
• Helen Alvare, 46th Annual Donald A. Giannella Memorial Lecture: Religious Liberty and Nondiscrimination Law, (Villanova Law Review, Vol. 69, No. 5, pp. 881–920 (2024)).
• Zalman Rothschild, The Right to Exit Religion, (Georgetown Law Journal, forthcoming).
• James Gerard Dwyer, Mired in Meyer's Mischief A Century After Fabrication of Constitutional Parents' Rights, (26 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 107 (2025)).
• S. Ernie Walton, Brief of Amicus Curiae Professor S. Ernie Walton in Support of Petitioners in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, (March 03, 2025).
• David Eliot Bernstein, The Supreme Court’s Mysterious 1920s Due Process Education Trilogy, (The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, Vol. 26, pp. 41–54 (2025)).
• Kumar Bal Govind Singh, Hate Speech, (January 12, 2025).

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

• Stephen James Bogle, Spiritual Duties and Legal Debts in Seventeenth Century Scotland: A Preliminary Study, (January 25, 2025).
• Hesham Abdelgawad, The Impact of Islamic Law on Cryptocurrency Regulation in Egypt, (MJTILP, Vol 20, Issue 3, 2024).
• Roni M. Rosenberg, Moral and Practical Considerations in the Debate on Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in England, (January 09, 2025).

From SSRN (Hindu law and rituals):

• Sanjay Koul this week posted 17 recent papers on Hindu law, beliefs and rituals: Liberation and Divine Union: A Study of Moksha in Hindu; The Foundations of Hindu Thought: An Examination of Key Scriptures Across Philosophy, Ethics, and Devotion; Fire Ritual in Sanatana Dharma; Meditation in Sanatana Dharma: An Exploration of Ancient Practices and Philosophical Insights; Exploring Kashmir Shaivism: Philosophy, Practices, and Contemporary Relevance; The Gurukul System Evolution, Impact, and Resurgence of India's Ancient Holistic Education Model; Sacred Texts and Spiritual Pathways: A Comprehensive Analysis of Shaiva, Vaishnava, and Shakta Agamas in Hindu Tradition; The Creation of the Universe and Core Principles of Sanatana Dharma: A Comprehensive Exploration of Hindu Philosophical Foundations; The Rig Veda: A Gateway to Understanding Ancient Indian Spirituality; The Atharvaveda: The Veda of Knowledge and Magic; Exploring the Puranas The Cultural and Spiritual Tapestry of Hinduism; The Upanishads: Foundations of Indian Thought and Their Global Philosophical Impact; The Yajurveda: The Veda of Ritual and Sacrifice; The Samaveda: A Melodic Expression of Ancient Indian Spirituality; The Vedas: Foundations of Ancient Knowledge and Philosophy in Hinduism; Namaste and Namaskar: The Spiritual and Cultural Essence of India's Sacred Greetings

From SmartCILP:

• Vincent J. Samar, Conceptual Schemes/Frameworks and Their Relation to Law: A New Argument for Separation of Church and State, 30 Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice 379-424 (2024).
• Weldon P. Sloan & Joseph M. Capobianco, Faith, Federal Courts, and Free Speech: Do Federal Courts Protect Religious Speech More than Non-Religious Speech?, 22 First Amendment Law Review 147-188 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

NOTE to Readers: An unusually large number of articles of interest were posted online during the past week--

From SSRN:

• Matthew K. Minerd, The Influence of John of St. Thomas Upon the Thought of Jacques Maritain, (Studia Poinsotiana, No. 2. (2024)).
• Yuanlou Lin, Though Shut in Caves and Sealed in Jars, Qumran Scrolls Were Not Hidden to Not Be Found by Us, (February 27, 2025).
• Stephanie H. Barclay & Matthew Krauter, The Untold Story of the Proto-Smith Era: Justice O'Connor's Papers and the Court's Free Exercise Revolution, (174 U. Penn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025)).
• Samuel J. Levine, Foreword "The Conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools", (Touro Law Review: Vol. 38: No. 4, Article 3 (2023).
• Samuel J. Levine, Interpreting Religious Doctrine: The Third Rail that Wags the Dog in Religion Clause Jurisprudence, (81 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1477, Fall 2024).
• Jennifer Lee Koh, Christian Lawyers in the Public Interest and Outside the Political Right, (BYU Law Review (forthcoming 2026)).
• Benjamin M. Leff, Getting Donor-Advised Funds Regulation Right: Closing the Public-Support Test Loophole, (February 21, 2025).
• Rosemary Teele Langford & Malcolm Anderson, Religious Charities in Australia: Implications for Governance Under Traditional Values and Outlooks, (March 25, 2024).
• Michael Bindas, Meyer, Pierce, and Everything After, (26 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 281 (2025) (forthcoming)).
• Aaron Tang & Ethan Hutt, "Original History" and the Free Exercise Case for Religious Charter Schools, (January 24, 2025).
• Naomi R. Cahn, Maxine Eichner & Mary E. Ziegler, "For Their Benefit": The Lost History of Parental Consent and Minors' Rights, (114 Calif. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)).
• Henry F. Fradella, How State Courts Apply Lawrence v. Texas in Civil Contexts: A Mixed-Methods Content Analysis of Two Decades of Cases, 32 Tulane Jour. of Law & Sexuality 1 (2023).

From SSRN (Marriage):

• Lee Anne Fennell, Owning Marriage in Robinson's Gilead Novels, (Connubial Fictions: The Evolution of American Marriage in Law and Literature (Richard H. McAdams, Jonathan S. Masur, and Martha C. Nussbaum eds.) (forthcoming Oxford UP)).
• Damir Banović, Normalizing Queer and the Loss of Critical Potential? Same-Sex Marriage: to Equality or Liberation?, (Fabio Macioce, Dragica Vujadinović and Zara Saeidzadeh (eds.) "Feminist Legal and Political Practices - The Contemporary Interplay of Gender, Intersectionality and Diversity", Springer Nature (forthcoming in 2025)).
• Anthony C. Infanti, Ten Years After Windsor and Obergefell: The Tax Inequalities of Marriage Equality, (Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (forthcoming)).

From SSRN (Abortion and Reproductive Rights):

• David S. Cohen & Carole Joffe, After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion (Book Introduction and Epilogue), (January 25, 2025).
• Mridula Raman, Prosecutorial Discretion and the Crime of Abortion, (Yale Law and Policy Review Vol. 43, pp. 171-250 (2024)).
• Evan D. Bernick, Cthulhu and the Constitution, (February 22, 2025).
• Makayla Haussler, Confronting State-Sanctioned Reproductive Abuse: Reproductive Justice, Domestic Violence, and the Promise of State Constitutional Rights to Safety Post-Dobbs, (January 15, 2025).
• David S. Cohen & Rachel Rebouche, Repealing Comstock, (104 Boston University Law Review Online 267 (2024)).
• Scott DeVito, Dobbs Is, Historically, Right, (January 01, 2025).
• Brendan Mohan, Dobbs v. Employee Benefits: Major Questions Left After the Landmark Decision, (November 25, 2024).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Amr Ibn Munir, The Islamic Law of Treaty, (February 03, 2025).
• Imam Sujono, Yovita Arie Mangesti, Slamet Suhartono & Zaleha Kamaruddin, Islamic Legal Perspective on the Implementation of Online Marriage Contracts During the Covid-19 Pandemic, (Ulul Albab: Jurnal Studi dan Penelitian Hukum Islam | Vol. 6, No. 1, October 2022).
• Abdulkadir Abubakar Adam & Aina-Obe Shamsuddin Bolatito, Navigating Digital Morality and Hisba Board's Strategies: The Challenges of Online Immorality Induction Among Youth in Kano State, Nigeria, (February 16, 2025).
• Bolatito, Aina-Obe Shamsuddin Bolatito & Nazifi Dahiru Abdullahi, A Faith-Based Framework for Mitigating Corruption in Nigeria; An Islamo-Christian Perspective, (February 08, 2025).
• Rifqi Khairul Anam, The Meaning of The Madura Proverb "Bhuppa'-Bhâbhu'-Ghuru-Rato" in Hasan Hanafi's Social Theology Perspective and Its Relevance to Community Development, (October 24, 2024).
• Sophia Chima, Balancing Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Expression: Review of the Blasphemy Laws in Nigeria, (November 21, 2024).
• Shameer Modongal, Prophet's Teaching on Jar: Application of Islamic Ethics of Neighborhood in the New Globalized Society, (November 29, 2023).
• Md. Omar Farque, Muslim Wife’s Right to Maintenance in Bangladesh: Analysed Through the Lenses of Shari’ah and Judicial Decisions, (November 12, 2024).

From SSRN (Law of India):

• Prashant Kumar Chauhan & Vikas Singh Yadav, Impact of the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 on Women’s Property Rights, (International Journal of Law, Management & Humanities, Volume 8 | Pp. 554-560, Issue 1 2025).
• Tapesh Meghwal, Faith and Safety: Legal Frameworks and Challenges of Managing Crowd Risks at Religious Gatherings in India, (December 20, 2024).
• Aayush Bhardwaj & Heena Parveen, The Nexus Between the Ramayana and State Administration, (in P. Salgar (Ed.), Ramayana: Instrument for Indianising Socio-Legal Approaches (pp. 189-203) (2024)).

From SmartCILP:

• Christopher J. Manettas, A License to Discriminate? 303 Creative v. Elenis and Where the Supreme Court May Go, 39 Touro Law Review 539-552 (2024).
• Allen Rostron, Saints, Satanists, and Religious Public Charter Schools, 59 Tulsa Law Review 451-486 (2024).
• Wayne Law Review Symposium “The Evolution of Religious Liberty”, 70 Wayne Law Review, Issue 1 (2024).

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).