Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

Note: SSRN this week posted links to 39 articles by John Witte. Below are links to those written within the past two years which is Religion Clause's definition of "Recent" articles.

• John Witte, Josef Bohatec: The First Historian of the Calvinist Reformation of Rights, (September 16, 2025).
• John Witte, Christianity and Law in the Enlightenment, (December 31, 2024).
• John Witte, Review Essay on Rafael Domingo, Law & Religion in Secular Age, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 14, no. 1 (2025): 175-80).
• John Witte, Faith in School: Balancing No Establishment and Free Exercise of Religion Guarantees in American Education, (Ecclesiastical Law Journal, volume 26, issue 3,2024).
• John Witte, "Foreword" to Grzegorz Blicharz, Kevin Doak, and Jonghyu Jeong, eds., Law and Christianity in Japan: The Legacy of the Great Jurists, (forthcoming 2026).
• John Witte, The Christian Origins of the Law of Marriage and Divorce in the Western Legal Tradition, (Joel A. Nichols and Karin Carmit Yefet, eds., Research Handbook on Family Law and Religion (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026), __.)
• John Witte, Polygamy, Marriage, Protestant Law, (Rabiat Akande, Maurits Berger, and Vishal Vora, eds. Concise Encyclopedia of Religion and Law (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026)).
• John Witte & Andrea Pin, Sacrificing Religious Freedom in Europe: Why the Pan-European Courts Need Douglas Laycock, (Journal of Law and Religion 40 (2026): __ ).
• John Witte, State Law and Moral Character Formation, (Canopy Forum (February 12, 2025)).
• John Witte, Balancing No Establishment and Free Exercise of Religion Guarantees in American Education, (December 31, 2024).

From SSRN:

• Kevin M. Barry & D. Dangaran, Gender Dysphoria Canons, (University of Hawai’i Richardson School of Law Research Paper No. 6345719 (2026)).
• Jonathan Feingold & Isaac Kamola, Maga's Blue State Strategy: How Democrats And University Leaders Helped The Reactionary Right Weaponize Antisemitism Against Higher Education, (August 01, 2025).
• Asad Ullah, Islamic Bioethics and Genetic Engineering: Principles and Contemporary Challenges, (February 03, 2026).
• Riwaldi et. al., The Strategy of the Office of Religious Affairs (KUA) in Preventing Early Marriage in Urban Communities, (ZICONS: Zawiyah International Conference on Sharia and Legal Studies (2025)).
• SeyyedAbdolHojjat MoghadasNian, SeyedMehdi AlizadehMousavi, SeyedMohammadMahdi HosseinPoor & Akbar Bagheri, Prophetic Conflict Management, Quantified: A KPI-Driven GKSF for Intra-Islamic Rapprochement, (September 06, 2025).
• Rifqi Khairul Anam & Alamsyah Halim, Existential-Islamic Dialogue: Reinterpreting Spirituality To Overcome Modern “Unhomeliness”, (Rausyan Fikr: Jurnal Ilmu Studi Ushuluddin dan Filsafat, volume 21, issue 2, 2025).
• Jill Wieber Lens & Allison Whelan, Perinatal Palliative Care & Abortion, (Virginia Law Review (2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jeremy Kessler, Selective Service and the Separation of Powers, (106 Boston University Law Review __ (2026)).
• Harold Anthony Lloyd, Bowers v. Hardwick Postmortems at Forty: Timely Dissections of Its Tradition, Enumeration, and Other Errors, (William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Volume 35 (Forthcoming)).
• Nguyen, Lam Tien, A Theocracy Within a Democracy: Revisiting the Limits of Accommodation and Pluralism in a Pluralist Democracy, (February 07, 2026).
• James M. Oleske, Jr., Mahmoud, Skrmetti, and 303 Creative: Ignoring Original Meaning, Rewriting Precedent, and Discounting Harm to LGBTQ People, (26 Hous. J. Health L. & Pol’y (forthcoming)).
• Reva B. Siegel, It's Alive! When the Original Meaning of "Person" Protected by the Fourteenth Amendment Is Not a Fixed, But Living Word, (Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming).
• Emily Maurin-Waters & Deborah Lolai, Hate Crime or Bullying? The High Cost of Framing Harm Among Youth, (113 Va. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2027)).
• Benjamin Eidelson, Testimony for U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hearing on Antisemitism on America’s College and University Campuses: Current Conditions and the Federal Response, (February 06, 2026).
• Michele Goodwin & Allison Whelan, Reproductive Policing: A Review, (Annual Review of Criminology, volume 9, issue 1, 2026).
• Greer Donley& William M. Carter, Jr., An Originalist Critique of Fetal Personhood, (175 U. Pa. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)).

From SSRN (Parental Rights):

• Maxine Eichner, Mary E. Ziegler & Naomi R. Cahn, Opting Out: Mahmoud, Public Education, and the Future of Parental Rights, (___ Duke L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2026)).
• Zalman Rothschild, Vaccines and 'Religious Parental Rights', (Harv. L. Rev. F. (forthcoming)).

From SSRN (Religious Philosophy):

• Maurice Izunwa& OD Michael, Conceptualising Jesus as The 'Living Customary Law: a Christological Re-reading of  The "African Charter on Human And People's Rights" For Restorative Justice and  Socio-economic Rights In Africa, (January 03, 2026).
• Edward L. Rubin, The Concept Of Mercy As A Pragmatic Decision Protocol, (Vanderbilt Law Research Paper, (October 3, 2025)).
• Hakan Ibrahim Apaydin, How Texts Became Sacred Revelation, Writing, and the Historical Construction of Sacredness, (January 29, 2026).
• Hannah Walser, Religion as Private Law, (February 01, 2026).

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

• Amal Sethi, The Taliban's Multitextual Constitution: Cultivated Ambiguity as Authoritarian Technique, (2026 Forthcoming, Richard Albert (ed), Multi-Textual Constitutions of the World).
• Gareth T. Davies, Can Prejudice Justify Discrimination? The Case of Religion in EU Law, (Effective Judicial Protection in EU Equality Law (2026)).
• Donata Garsia, Cultural Development Zones: A Governance Framework for Mission Integrity in Community-Based Cultural Organizations, (February 02, 2026).

From SmartCILP:

• Clara Spera & Katherine Fleming, Conservative Family Values as Constitutional Law: Private Regulation and the Erosion of Fundamental Rights, 65 Santa Clara Law Review 651-730 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

 From SSRN:

• Candice Mason Kulbeth, Church Autonomy: A Universal Sequencing Question ,(January 22, 2026).
• Ela A. Leshem, Normative Transplants: The Case of Ships as Legal Persons, (Forthcoming in Legal Personhood in Private Law (Paul B. Miller, Christopher Essert & Eva Micheler eds., Cambridge University Press 2026)).
• Joshua P. Fershee, Reimagining Legal Education: The Role And Purpose Of Law Schools In Modern Society-A Values-Driven Approach To Modern Legal Education, (Toledo Law Review, Volume 57, Issue 2, Winter 2026, pp. 229-42).
• Benjamin Fleshman, Church Autonomy as a Framework for Conditions on Government Benefits, (105 North Carolina Law Review (Forthcoming)).
• Anurag Deb, Lewis Graham & C.R.G. Murray, Religious Education and Indoctrination in Northern Ireland and Beyond After JR87, (Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 2026).
• Micah Schwartzman, The Asymmetry of Religious Motivation, (135 Y.L.J.F. 467 (2025)).
• Scott Altman, Steering, Subversion, and Rights, (USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 2607 (2026)).
• Lyric Helena Emerson, Abortion, Bodily Sovereignty, and State Power in 2025, (January 30, 2026).
• Dov Fox & Mary Ziegler, Reproductive Abuse, (UCLA Law Review (forthcoming 2026)).
• Rachel Crass, Sex and Gender in Sports: Examining the Constitutionality of Transgender Sports Laws in the United States and the Need for a New Approach to Scrutiny, (July 26, 2024).
• R. George Wright, The Many Constitutional Limits on Government Speech, (February 02, 2026).

From SSSRN (Islamic Law):

• Qazi Irfan, A Critique of Diminishing Musharakah (January 30, 2026).
• Oruj Ismayilov, From Darkness to Light: The Isrā as Divine Pedagogy, (January 25, 2026).
• Rachel Crass, Comparative Sharia Law in Iran and Nigeria: Effects on Athletes and Recommendations for Sports Governing Bodies to Increase Access for Muslim Women and Girls, (May 06, 2024).
• Dhruv B., Legal Enforceability of Smart Contract-Based Mahr Agreements in Online Nikah Platforms: A Comparative Analysis of UAE and Malaysian Jurisprudence, (August 24, 2025).
• Afthah Ashraf K.M., Mawālī in Early Islam: From Subaltern Class to Pioneers of Islamic Scholarship, (September 10, 2025).
• Eddie Ladja, "Zakat as an Instrument of Economic Empowerment: Assessing Its Impact on the Economic Resources of Muslim Residents in Zamboanga City, Philippines", (January 28, 2026).

From SSRN (Law of East Asia):

• Advaith Sri Krishna Datta Mamidanna, The Constitutional Experiment in Matrimonial Justice: A Critical Study of India's Matrimonial Justice Regime and Its Jurisprudential Paradox, (September 17, 2025).
• Sunil Sondhi, Dandaniti in the Indian Tradition, (October 18, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

•  3rd Annual Law v. Antisemitism Conference, FIU Law Review, Vol. 19, Number 3 (2025).
• Heidar Piri & Niaz A, Shah, The Application of Human Rights Treaties as Domestic Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 47 Human Rights Quarterly 282-307 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Eric A. Kades, Turning the Other Cheek, (January 30, 2026).
• Robert Katz, How Antisemitism Infects the Law, (December 09, 2024).
• Taleed El-Sabawi & Angelo Kishmish, Loving Thy Neighbor in the Shadow of the CSA: RFRA and the Case for Overdose Prevention Centers, (February 16, 2026).
• Gabrielle Girgis, The Establishment Clause After Kennedy: Principles and Applications, (February 13, 2026).

From SSRN (East Asian Issues):

• N. Vasudeva Srivamsi, Raamaraajya and the Indian Constitution: A Duty-Oriented Perspective, (September 17, 2025).
• Dewan Alif Ovi & Pronathi Ghosh, Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: A Socio Legal Analysis (January 31, 2026).
• Kelley Loper & Carole J. Petersen, The Evolution of LGBTQ+ Rights In Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, (February 07, 2026).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Arafat Rahman Akram, Lab-Grown Meat: An Issue-Based Islamic Jurisprudential Analysis in the Light of Qur’an, Sunnah, and Juristic Opinions, (January 16, 2026).
• Erfanul Alam Siddiquee, Imagining Indigenous Islamic Financial Modernity: What If Colonialism Never Disrupted Islamic Banking?, (January 31, 2026).
• Erfanul Alam Siddiquee, Zakat in Bondage: The Malê Model and Spirit of Islamic Finance, (February 02, 2026).
• Abdessamad Bourkibate, Family Cybersecurity Jurisprudence (FCJ): A Foundational Interdisciplinary Framework Integrating Islamic Legal Theory, Cybersecurity Engineering, and Digital Family Psychology, (January 19, 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Laura Portuondo, Free Exercise and the Redistribution of Liberty (February 04, 2026).
• James Morrison, Beyond the Curriculum: Free Exercise Limits on Public School Regulation After Mahmoud v. Taylor, (January 11, 2026).
• Harold Anthony Lloyd, Bowers v. Hardwick Postmortems at Forty: Timely Dissections of Its Tradition, Enumeration, and Other Errors, (February 07, 2026).
• John Greil, Some Optimism About Protecting Sacred Sites, (February 10, 2026).
• Michael J. Broyde, When Church Needs State: Protecting the Right to Worship from Disruptive Protest, (January 01, 2026).
• Robert W. Gomulkiewicz, When Constitutional Protection for Religious Liberty Gets Lost in Translation: A Case Study from Washington State, (February 02, 2026).
• John Parsi, Let’s Talk About the Biological Reality of Sex, Baby, (February 14, 2025).
• Jud Campbell, Fundamental Rights at the American Founding, (January 01, 2025).
• Naomi R. Cahn, Maxine Eichner & Mary E. Ziegler, "For Their Benefit": The Lost History of Parental Consent and Minors' Rights, (February 26, 2025). 

From SSRN (Non-U.S Law):

• Dawn Carla Nunziato, The EU Versus the Platforms and the First Amendment: Regulating Online Hate Speech (October 01, 2025).
• Jay Patil & Asmita Tikhe, Uniform Civil Code in India: A Legal and Empirical Analysis, (January 15, 2026).
• Joy Makhal, Finding a Room of One’s Own: Woman Autonomy and the Anti-Stereotyping Principle in Dishonour Crimes Adjudication in India, (October 22, 2025).

From SSRN (Religious Philosophy):

• Swapnil Bhagat, From Hymn to State: Political Ecology and Kingship from the Ṛgveda through the Aitareya to the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, (September 06, 2025).
• Shamsaddin Amanov, The Manifesto of Omittoism: A Jurisdictional Declaration of Human Sovereignty, (January 11, 2026).
• Shamsaddin Amanov, Jurisdictional Sovereignty: A Consent-Based Critique of Divine Authority, (January 12, 2026).
• James Renfroe, Where the Lines Meet: Adoption as a Birthright and the Ritual Architecture of the Royal House (1842-1894), (January 16, 2026).
• Hershey H. Friedman, Beyond Rashi: Rashbam's Groundbreaking Peshat Approach and the Battle Over Biblical Truth (January 28, 2026).

From SSRN (Islam and Islamic Law):

• Zikra Hasan & Mohd Kamil, The Sachar Committee Report: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Muslim Marginalisation, State Policy, and Constitutional Equality in India, (December 15, 2025).
• Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema, Islamic Law of Inheritance in the Age of Generative AI: An Analysis of ChatGPT and DeepSeek (January 30, 2026).
• Shahid Mahmood, New Atheism and Islam: (A Critical Examination of Scientism, Morality, and Islamic Intellectual Responses in the Post-2000 Era), (January 21, 2026).
• Karim Gabriel Mussa, Religious Fatwas and Social Cohesion: A Case Study of Public Reactions in Tanzania, (January 21, 2026).
• Asad Zaman, Reclaiming Economics as a Moral Science: An Islamic Approach to Monetary Reform, (January 25, 2026).
• Ahmad Munif, Irwan Abdullah, Misbah Zulfa Elizabeth & Muhammad Zainal Mawahib, Controversy Over Religious Authorities in Sharia Financial Regulation, (June 27, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• Jessica Gibree, Faith or Fairness: The Legal Battle over LGBTQ Rights in Adoption and Foster Care, 35 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 1-40 (2025).
• Jeremias Brusau, Religious Exemptions from Abortion Bans?, 35 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 41-84 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Joanmarie Davoli, Infusing Catholicism In Teaching And Writing, (December 01, 2025).
• Michael Quinlan, NSW Greens Introduce a Bill of Rights to Protect Their Preferred Rights, (News Weekly Issue No. 3204, December 20, 2025 12-13).
• Angshul Majumdar, Halakhah as a Gödelian System: Why Oral Law, Disagreement, and Authority are Structurally Necessary, (January 20, 2026).
• Robert Katz, Antisemitism and the Law, (Carolina Academic Press, 2025).
• Zachary Price, Constitutional Symmetry in the 2024-2025 Term:  Mahmoud and Skrmetti's Missteps, (January 31, 2026).
• Gagas Tri Anggoro, Inclusive Human Rights: A Paradigm for Dignity in Diversity, (January 10, 2026).
• Robert Katz, The Pearl and Troy Feibel Lecture on Judaism and Law: "American Law's Jewish Question: Religion, Race, and Free Speech in an Age of Campus Antisemitism", (January 31, 2026).
• Nancy A. McLaughlin, Donor Standing To Enforce Charitable Gifts In The 21st Century (February 03, 2026).
• Jacqueline Stevens, How John Searle and the Chicago Supermob Took Out Northwestern University: The Case of the 'Mislaid' Methodists and Proposals to Reform Nonprofit Laws, (January 20, 2026).
• Daniel B. Rice, Tradition Without Text?, (75 Duke Law Journal Online __ (forthcoming 2026)).
• Lyric Helena Emerson, Discrimination in 2025: Racism, Islamophobia, Gender, and the Reorganization of Social Hierarchy, (January 30, 2026).

From SSRN (Biblical Interpretation):

• Essien Oku Essien, Apocalyptic Diagnostics of the Divine Letters to the Seven Churches in Asia Minor, (January 23, 2026).
• Essien Oku Essien, A Constructive Reading Of Matthew 16:18 In Canonical And Patristic Perspective (January 21, 2026).
• Dov Fischer, The Value of Silence and Purposeful Communication: Lessons from Genesis (37:13), (December 07, 2025).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Arafat Rahman Akram & Sharat Fatema Angelic, Admissibility of Iqrar in Proving Criminal Cases: A Comparative Study of Malaysia, Pakistan, and Brunei, (January 10, 2026).
• Seyyed Abdol Hojjat Moghadas Nian, AqilaSadat MoghadasNian & Moghadas Nian SeyyedAbdolHamed, Optimizing Digital Transformation in Waqf Institutions: A Strategic KPI Framework for Enhanced Transparency and Sustainability, (April 19, 2025).
• Dr. Mohamed El Bachir Berroho, Waqf and Trust: A Comparative Analysis, (October 21, 2024).

From SmartCILP:

• Iza Hussin, Book Review. Between Empires: Arab, Asian, and European Legal Orders in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean. Sovereigns of the Sea: Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire, by Seema Alavi, 50 Law & Social Inquiry 935-940 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Hakan Ibrahim Apaydin, Prophet and King Figures in Sacred Texts: Theological Inconsistencies and the Problem of Textual Construction, (January 02, 2026).
• David M. Engel, Village Law in a Changing World: Justice and Alienation in Thailand, (January 15, 2026).
• Russell Bell, Unfalsifiable Claims and Unaccountable Power: Why Theocracy Requires Thought Control, (January 21, 2026).
• Mathew Akinlabi Onifade, Epistemic Injustice in Africa: A Philosophical Dialogue with the Science of Religion, (November 17, 2025).
• Steven Collis, Public Employees as a Reflection of a Religiously Diverse Culture, (99 Notre Dame L. Rev. Reflection 229 (2024)).
• Lawrence O. Gostin, The Supreme Court's 2026 Term-Public Health in Jeopardy, (JAMA Health Forum, volume 7, issue 1, 2026).
• Samuel Singer & Gillian Smith, From Mistake to Malice: Misgendering in Canadian Legal Proceedings, (January 19, 2026).
• Gokula Krishnan B, India’s Transgender Policy in Global Context: A Comparative Study with South Asia., (Social Science & Humanities Open, 2026).
• Jeffrey A. Pojanowski, Natural Law and Reading Positive Law: Moments of Moral Judgment in Legal Interpretation, (American Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 71 (forthcoming 2026)).
• Julia Hunter, Transgender Rights Federalism: Protecting Gender-Affirming Care in State Court, (UC Law Journal, Volume 77 (Forthcoming April 2026)).
• Jason Brownlee, Efforts to Weaponize Title VI against Pro-Palestine Speech on University Campuses, (December 31, 2024).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Abu Hayyan Saeed,, Islamic History , Fact or Fiction, (January 02, 2026).
• Sharat Fatema Angelic & Majdah Zawawi, Shurb Al-Khamr Under Islamic Criminal Law: Harm, Punishment, and Modern Legal Challenges, (January 04, 2026).
• Samiul Hasan, Executives in the Muslim Majority Countries: Practices and Lessons for Harm Prevention, (January 16, 2026).
• Ekaterina Ryzhkova, Religion As the Basis and Force of the Financial Policy of Muslim Countries, (November 25, 2025).
• Haseeb Fatima Saikhu & Rasham Armab Saikhu, Systematic Analysis of Inheritance Rights of Khuntha (Simple Hermaphrodite) and Khuntha Mushkil (Problematic Hermaphrodite) under Islamic Law and Pakistani Legal System, (Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice Volume 21, Issue 4: 148-164, 2025).
• Sharat Fatema Angelic, Validity of Muslim Marriage Conducted via Video Call: An Islamic Jurisprudential Analysis, (January 16, 2026).
• Timur Kuran & Fasih Zulfiqar, Uneven Modernization in the Muslim World, (Annual Review of Economics, volume 18 (2026)).
• Arun Muralidhar, A Sharia-Compliant, Heterogeneous-Agent, Asset Pricing Model: With Asset Allocation and Risk-Adjusted Performance, (January 24, 2026).
• Shahid Mahmood, Artificial Intelligence and Human Identity: (Islamic Ethical Challenges), (January 06, 2026).
• Ming Sen Thong, Blockchain for Islamic Social Financing and Islamic Financial Institutions, (January 04, 2026).

From SmartCILP:

• BYU Law Review, Volume 50 (2024-2025), Issue 5.

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Lael Daniel Weinberger & Branton Nestor, Church Autonomy and Interlocutory Appeals, (January 14, 2026).
• Michael A. Helfand, Mapping Carson: New Frontiers of Religious Exclusion in Government Programs, (Notre Dame Law Review, forthcoming).
• Ekaterina Ryzhkova, The Influence of the Islamic Legal Tradition on the Institution of Public Finance in the Countries of the East, (December 06, 2025).
• Dennis Wieboldt, "Shall We Settle for Anything Less Than Complete Equality?" Catholic Power and the First National Fight for Parental Rights in Education, 1947-1962, (34 Rel. & Am. Cul. __ (2026)).
• Oruj Ismayilov, Was Adam the First Biological Human? A Qur'anic Account of Human Origins as a Metaphysical Turning Point, (December 28, 2025).
• Pranav Ankush Jadhav SP, The Hindu Minority Crisis: Understanding Recent India-Bangladesh Tensions, (December 26, 2025).
• Zahir Khan, Application of Islamic Law of Tort in Pakistan's Legal System: A Critical and Comparative Analysis, (December 29, 2025).
• John M. Bickers, A Tale Told in Reverse: Military Retirees and the Benefit of Clergy, (January 09, 2026).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• Andrew T. Hayashi & Allen Calhoun (eds.), Justice in Taxation: Christian Perspectives, (Routledge, June 2026).
• Konrad Dyda, The Legal System of the Vatican City State: Between Secular and Canon Law, (Routledge, October 2025).
• Jonathan Crowe, Constance Youngwon Lee & Joshua Neoh, Jurisprudence and Theology: The Australian School, (Routledge, November 2025).
• Brandon Vaidyanathan, Sara Perla and Stephen White, Rebuilding Trust: Clergy Morale in the Wake of the Abuse Crisis, (Catholic University Press, Nov. 2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• L. Joe Dunman, Religion in the Law: An Open Access Casebook (2d Ed.), (January 04, 2026).
• Richard Yuan, Reverse-Hostage Strategies: Self-Subordination and Elite Politics in Premodern States, (December 01, 2025).
• Caleb Bastian, Sociality in Tribes, (December 25, 2025).
• Melissa Murray & Katherine Shaw, Skrmetti, Trump, and the Coming Sex Equality Realignment,  (Supreme Court Review, forthcoming 2026).
• Vaishnavi Shinde, Casteism and Reservation in Modern India: Rethinking Reservation and Equality (2025), (December 13, 2025).
• Paul Benjamin Linton, Transporting Abortifacients Across State Lines: Prospects for Indictment and Extradition, (December 01, 2025).
• The following are Forthcoming in  Eric Heinze, Natalie Alkiviadou, Tom Herrenberg, Sejal Parmar and Ioanna Tourkochoriti (eds), The Oxford Handbook on Hate Speech (Oxford University Press, 2026)): Eric Heinze, The Multifaceted Regulation of Online Hate Speech;  Eric Heinze & Ashutosh A. Bhaagwat, Do Hate Speech Bans Undermine Liberal Values?;   Eric Heinze, Do Hate Speech Bans Undermine Democratic Values?.

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Arafat Rahman Akram, Qisas and International Human Rights Law: An Issue of Justice and Human Dignity, (January 04, 2026).
• Abdullah Muzammil, An Islamic Jurisprudential Inquiry into the Conditional Permissibility of Modern Sports Betting, (December 14, 2025).
• Syed Muhammad Bilal Zaidi, When "Principal" Loses Meaning: Ribā, Fiat Money, and the Ethics of Obligation, (December 30, 2025).
• Zulfa Latifah Hanum, Science (Ontology) in Islamic and Western Perspectives, (December 14, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• J. Steven Svoboda, Protection of Male and Female Sexed Children from Genital Cutting: Making Sense of Recent Legal Developments.31 Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice 307-358 (2025).
• Mairead Enright, "Up with the Brave": Gender, Transgression and Judges' Use of Catholic Convents in England and Ireland, 1930–1959, 43 Law & History Review 149-174 (2025).
• Jennifer M. Kinsley, Speak Now: A New Paradigm for Assessing Wedding Vendors' First Amendment Objections to Same-Sex Weddings, 52 Northern Kentucky Law Review 89-106 (2025).
• Ryan Thoreson, Obergefell and the Domestication (Or Not) of LGBTQ Intimacy. 52 Northern Kentucky Law Review 107-174 (2025).
• William E. Thro, Pierce and the American Proposition, 50 University of. Dayton Law Review 381-396 (2025).
  
• Isaac Amon, "Forced Worship Stinks in God's Nostrils": The Inquisition, Sepharad, and the American Experiment, 40 Touro Law Review 71 (2025).
• Paul Finkelman & Lance J. Sussman, Defeating Antisemitism in the World's First Democratic Republic: The American Revolution and Jewish Legal and Political Equality, 40 Touro Law Review 121 (2025).
• Marc A. Greendorfer, Trading Places: The Intersection of LGBTQ Rights and Zionist Rights under Federal Civil Rights, 40 Touro Law Review 173 (2025).
• Jonathan Hasson, Odod Mudrikm & Abraham Tennenbaum, Command and Consequence: Reassessing King David's Military Decisions in the Uriah Affair—A Legal and Ethical Analysis in the Context of Modern Legal Theory, 40 Touro Law Review 197 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• David Eliot Bernstein, Title VI Hostile Environment Law in the Shadow of Antisemitic Violence, (Journal of Free Speech Law, Forthcoming).
• Geoffrey Swenson, Symbolic Rule of Law Promotion, (December 12, 2025). Law & Social Inquiry, First View pp. 1-32 (2025).
• Zachary D. Fasman & Samuel Estreicher, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism and Title VI: College and University Responsibility for Campus Harassment of Jewish Students, (January 09, 2026).
• Peter K. Yu, Monastic Scribes, Disruptive Technology, Proto-Copyright Regimes, and Their Twenty-First Century Lessons, (Intellectual Property and Religion: Cross-Cultural Intersections of Faith and the Law, Enrico Bonadio, Bryan Khan, and Nicola Lucchi, eds., Hart Publishing, 2026, Forthcoming).
• Ofer Raban, The First Amendment and the Suspension of an Extremist Anti-Zionist Law Professor, (January 05, 2026).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Seyyed Abdol Hojjat Moghadas Nian, Ebrahim Qasemi, Seyyed Mohammad Ali Moghadas Nian, & SeyedMehdi AlizadehMousavi, Pioneering Jurisprudential Convergence: A KPI-Based Framework for Shia-Hanafi Rapprochement in Islamic Law, (April 19, 2025).
• Olivia Abu Danyal, Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Waqf Administration: Policy Options for Nigeria, (November 30, 2025).
• Marroun Bader & Amuda Ghazali, Legal and Regulatory Challenges in Waqf Administration in Nigeria, (November 28, 2025).
• Marroun Bader & Aliyu Islam, The Role of Waqf Institutions in Socio-Economic Development in Nigeria, (November 28, 2025).
• Shahid Mahmood, The Islamic Governance and Secular State (Philosophical Tensions and Practical Possibilities), (November 15, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• Sarah Ghabrial, Emergency by Design: The "Native Repressive Tribunals" and the Normalization of Exception in Colonial Algeria, 1858–1904. 42 Law & History Review 665-690 (2024).
• Yar Furstenberg, Rabbinic Evidence for the Spread of Roman Legal Education in the Provinces, 42 Law & History Review 713-734 (2024).
• Chagai Schlesinger, Weber in Jerusalem: The Rabbinical Debate over the Establishment of the Rabbinical Court of Appeals, 1918–1921,42 Law & History Review 869-892 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Blair Major, Between Freedom and Neutrality: Servatius v Alberni School District and the Problem of Judicial Gaslighting (December 19, 2025).
• Mustak Ahmed, The Weaponisation of Amnesty: Terrorism, Executive Decisions, and National Security in Bangladesh, (December 23, 2025).
• Shucheng Wang, The Varieties of Protestant House Churches Beyond Authoritarian Legality, (November 01, 2025).
• Matthew Cavedon, Eden America: John Locke and the School of Salamanca on Natural Property Rights, (Cambridge University, Press Elements in Law and Religion (under contract).
• Russell Bell, The Structural Necessity of Thought Control: Why Theocracy and Intellectual Freedom Are Logically Incompatible, (December 13, 2025).
• Russell Bell, Early Christian Authority Conflicts and Textual Preservation: The James-Paul Dispute and Its Impact on Alternative Christian Literature, (November 26, 2025).
• Russell Bell, Religious Reasoning in Nuclear Command Authority: Constitutional Crisis, Algorithmic Warfare, and Emergency Democratic Response During Real-Time Threshold War, (December 03, 2025).
• Advaith Sri Krishna Datta Mamidanna & Yug Gattani, Emergency Powers and Constitutional Morality: Re-examining Article 356 through S.R. Bommai, (December 17, 2025).
• Nicolin Decker, The Continuity vs. Conscience Doctrine (CVC): The Mappability Boundary in Artificial Systems and Human Rights, (December 26, 2025).
• Habiba Danjuma, & Abubakar Yusuf Mamud, Religious Freedom, Violence, and International Policy: Assessing Nigeria’s Designation as a Country of Particular Concern for Alleged Christian Persecution, (December 22, 2025).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Godfrey Lukindo J, Probate in Islamic Law Tanzania, Law and Practice Concern 1/3 Principle Properties to Wakf, (December 26, 2025).
• Ahmer Bilal Soofi, From Revelation to Legislation, (December 02, 2025).
• Ahmer Bilal Soofi, ‘Inna’: The Solemn Affirmation of Allah in the Quran, (December 20, 2025).
• Sonny Bhagat, The Raid on Somnath: Ghaznavid Ambitions and Divine Destiny in Futuh-us-Salatain (August 12, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• Journal of Catholic Legal Studies, Vol. 63 (2025).
• Symposia, Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, Vol 25, Issue 2 (2025).
• Kyle Reinhard, Myths and Magical Thinking: American Civil Religion, the Establishment Clause, and "Codified Irrationality" in Anti-CRT Measures, 37 Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development  287-376 (2025).
• Michael Zuckert, William J. Brennan Lecture. Brennan, Madison, and Freedom of Religion, 49 Oklahoma City University Law Review 305-318 (2025).

Corporate Governance in Sharia Compliant Banking Institutions Explored

A series of papers have been posted on SSRN from students at STEBank (Jakarta, Indonesia). The papers focus on corporate governance issues in Islamic banking:

• Ilham Pajar Berutu, Analysis of the Influence of Sharia Compliance and Good Corporate Governance on the Sustainability and Customer Trust of Sharia Banks: A Comparative Study between Indonesia, Malaysia, and England (November 19, 2025).
• Shafaunnisa Mufidah, Good Corporate Governance and Sustainability Principle in Islamic Banking in Indonesia, (November 20, 2025).
• Saripudin Sarip, The Role of Good Corporate Governance in Maintaining Ethics and Compliance in Islamic Banking: Challenges and Solutions in the Digital Age, (November 19, 2025).
• Sella Sudrajat, Good Corporate Governance in Driving Corporate Performance and Sustainability in the Modern Era (November 17, 2025).
• Nia Kanialistiowati, Concepts and Principles of Good Corporate Governance in Islamic Banking and Its Differences from Conventional Banking, (November 19, 2025).
• Andy Rifqi Kurniawan & Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, Islamic Business Ethics as the Foundation of Sharia Good Corporate Governance for Sustainability, (November 20, 2025).
• Almira Azmi Sabila, Good Corporate Governance as a Pillar of Sustainability and Resilience in Islamic Banks in Modern Indonesia, (November 19, 2025).
• Lilis Ainul Yaqin, The Implementation of GCG for the Sustainability of Islamic Banks in Indonesia Post-COVID-19 Pandemic, (November 17, 2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Francis Beckwith, One and a Half Cheers for Integralism:  Liberalism's Broken Promises and the New Draw of the Confessional State, (November 11, 2025).
• Ruth Mbabazi & Natal Ayiga, The Interplay between Cultural Practice and Human Rights on  Female Genital Mutilation /Cutting Amongst the Pokot and Sabiny Tribes in North Eastern Uganda, (Social Science & Humanities Open, 2025).
• Kees Waaldijk, Compact Chronological Overview of the Legal Recognition of Homosexual Orientation in the Countries of the World — Providing the Provisional 1791–2025 Data for the Author’s Global Index on Legal Recognition of Homosexual Orientation (GILRHO), (November 30, 2025).
• Wayne Unger, The Special Solicitude of Stare Decisis in Civil Rights, (December 01, 2025).
• Emerson Wright, Gender Affirming Rhetoric, (August 01, 2025).
• Rafique Adi Putra Mohd Nasir, Crypto Asset Taxonomy and Classification: Foundation for Shari'ah Screening Framework, (July 28, 2025).
• Abdulsamod Toheeb & Sumayyah Lawal, Milk Siblings in Islamic Law: Implications for Marriage and Family Dynamics {Rad’aa,Milk Kinship}, (June 23, 2025).
• Iqra Naz, An Analytical Study of Guardians and Wards Act 1890, Pakistan, (November 06, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• Kyle C. Velte, "Save Our Children" Redux: How History, Political Psychology, and a Shifting Media Landscape Help Explain Today's Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors, 26 Georgetown Journal of Gender & Law 1135-1178 (2025).
• Tanya Washington, Catherine Smith & Robin Walker, Religious Exemptions to Anti-Discrimination Law: Children's Rights in the Constitutional Calculus, 26 Georgetown Journal of Gender & Law 1293-1296 (2025).
• Tanya Washington, Catherine Smith & Robin Walker, Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars for the Advancement of Children's Constitutional Rights in Support of Defendants-Appellees, 26 Georgetown Journal of Gender & Law 1297-1339 (2025).
• Charles J. Russo, Faith-Based Charter Schools and the Establishment Clause: Like the Pig with Wings, They Look Good on Paper, but Can or Should They Get off of the Ground?, 85 Louisiana Law Review 393-438 (2025).
• Siyi Lin, Justifying the Law of Unjust Enrichment: A Confucian Perspective, 34 Washington International Law Journal 75-107 (2025).
• Ryan Spencer, Welcome to the Circus: An Analysis of Kennedy v. Bremerton, 2024 BYU Education & Law Journal 113-148 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

 From SSRN:

• Whittney Barth, Pierce v. Society of Sisters and Diminishing Protections for Teachers at Religious Schools, (100 Notre Dame Law Review ___ (forthcoming)).
• Marc O. DeGirolami, The Traditional University and the Free Speech University. (Notre Dame L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)).
• Kevin C. Walsh, Foreword for Petar Popović, Exploring the Nature of Law: Thomistic Juridical Realism and the Elements of Law's Ontology (CUA Press 2025) (June 01, 2025).
• Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, Interstices, Infinities, Religiosity, And Lawyering, (Journal of Law & Religion, forthcoming).
• Iqra Naz, Criminal Law Perspective on the Capacity of Lunatics and Insane Persons, (December 01, 2025).
• Marcus Castillo, The Christian Influence on Religious Exemption Policy, (February 10, 2025).
• Rasham Armab Saikhu, Author (s): Differences Related to Zakat Between the Islamic System and The Pakistani Legal System, (December 04, 2023).
• Mark Greenberg & Lawrence Sager, Defending Religious Freedom as Equality, (Journal of Law and Religion (in press)).
• Mohammed Billah, Do the NestQuestROI Models Align with Islamic Principles?,  (November 07, 2025).
• Gagas Tri Anggoro, The Maqasid Education Model: Restoring Purpose to Global Learning, (November 02, 2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Candice Mason Kulbeth, Speech Is Only Free for the Privileged: The Moral Mechanics of Neutrality, (October 25, 2025).
• Osama S. Qatrani, From “America First” to the MAGA Mindset: The Cognitive-Political Roots of Mike Ferguson’s Interpretive Lens, (November 26, 2025).
• Mark Storslee & Michael A. Helfand, Government Religious Speech and the Establishment Clause, (Vanderbilt Law Review, forthcoming 2026).
• Kathleen Brady, History, Tradition, and Finding Common Ground: The Establishment Clause and Religious Expression by the State, (Chicago-Kent Law Review, Volume 100, No. 2 (forthcoming 2025)).
• Dennis Wieboldt, Ken Kersch and the New Legal History: Beyond the Internalist/Externalist Divide, (4 J. Am. Const. Hist. __ (2026)).
• Gregory Brazeal, South Dakota’s Constitution: “Under God the People Rule”—But All the People?, (December 02, 2025).
• Csongor István Nagy, Federal Liberties and Diversity Among the States, (Suffolk University Law Review, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 257 (2025)).
• Steven Arrigg Koh, Communicative Legitimacy: The Supreme Court's Hidden Cultural Binaries in the U.S. Civil Sphere, (Boston Univ. School of Law Research Paper Forthcoming).
• Joanna L. Grossman, Who Decides? The Role of Parental Rights in Abortion and Gender-Affirming-Care Decisions for Minors, (135 Yale L.J. F. 237 (2025)).

From SSRN (Religious Law):

• Hershey H. Friedman, Breaking the Tablets: The Wisdom of Uncertainty and the Destructive Power of Dogmatism, (November 27, 2025).
• Muliadi & Marlinda Herman, Murâbahah Li Al-Âmir Bi Al-Syirâ' in the Perspective of Scholars: An Analysis of Contemporary World Fatwa Studies, (September 01, 2025).

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

• Faiza Aafrin, Between State and Society - Honour, Law, and the Limits of Female Autonomy, (July 22, 2025).
• Lindelani Mpungose, Sithembiso Mthembu & Sduduzo Nkosi, The influence of Christianity and British Western Culture on the Development of Children in Zulu Traditional Societies, with Particular Emphasis on the Showe area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, (OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, 18 (12), 631-650, 2025).
• Joel Harrison, Maximising or Determining Rights? On Using (and Discarding) Statutory Exceptions, (Australian Journal of Law and Religion, volume 6, 2025).
• Bennet Ramasedi, The Cost of Silence: The Criminalization of Abortion in Botswana — Between Public Morality and Reproductive Rights, (November 26, 2025).

Recent Articles of Inteterest

From SSRN:

• Anna Lukina, Evil Law in St. Thomas Aquinas's Philosophy (November 20, 2025).
• Rahmatulloh Ismoilov, Regulation of Islamic Knowledge and Empowering Individual Understanding: Historical Patterns and Modern Solutions, (October 18, 2025).
• Himangshu Ranjan Nath & Saksham Patiyar, State Intrusions Into Freedom of Conscience and Religion: Constitutional Challenges, (Indraprastha Law Review, Vol. V, Issue 1, Summer & Winter 2024, pp. 17-36).
• Monika Verma, Myanmar Junta’s Rohingya Return Initiative is Nothing More than a Strategic Pretense, (July 10, 2025).
• Monika Verma, The Politics of Repatriation: Analyzing Myanmar Military Junta's Rohingya Return Initiative in 2025, (November 02, 2025).
• Joel Harrison, & Lukas Opacic, Challenging the Unreal: The Future of Australian Law and Religion, (February 02, 2025).
• Freer Donley, A Non-Person Theory of the Fetus, (67 Boston College Law Review (forthcoming)).

From SmartCILP:

Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, Blasé: Deviant Lawyers and the Denial of Discrimination, 59 Law & Society Review 324-355 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Adriano P. Díaz Cisneros, The Competitive Values of Christianity: An Antitrust Perspective on Western Civilization (November 07, 2025).
• Nicole Stelle Garnett & Cameron Grinnell, The Persistence of the Unconstitutional Status/Use Distinction in Federal Grants to Religious Nonprofits (October 17, 2025).
• Osama S. Qatrani, The End of an Excuse: A Scientific Reassessment of Frank Zindler’s Rejoinders (1984–2025), (November 11, 2025).
• Micah Schwartzman, Richard Schragger & Nelson Tebbe, The Structure of Religious Preference, (139 Harv. L. Rev. 211 (2025)).
• Jeffrey A. Brauch, Beauty, Justice, and the Lawyer's Calling: A Review of Mark Fowler's Beauty and the Law, (Journal of Christian Legal Thought, Volume 15, No. 2 (2025), pp. 72-75).
• Christian Edmonds, En Banc Amicus Brief Of The Roberston Center For Constitutional Law In Support Of Defendants-Appellants And Reversal in Roake v. Brumley, (November 14, 2025).
• Lynne Marie Kohm & Joseph Kohm, C. S. Lewis's Influence in American Case Law, (November 19, 2025).
• Cristian Edmonds, Chipping Away at Stone: Rethinking the Establishment Clause After Kennedy, (October 25, 2025).
• Katie R. Eyer, Institutional Challenges in an Authoritarian Age, (November 20, 2025).
• Linda C. McClain & James E. Fleming, "What Shall Be Orthodox" in Polarized Times: Overview and Response to Commentators, (90 Missouri Law Review (2025)).

From SSRN (Reproductive Rights, Abortion and Gender):

• Martin Katz, Skrmetti and the Problem of Incidental Intent, (67 Wm. & Mary L. Rev XXX (2026)).
• Joanna L. Grossman, The Tenth Anniversary of Marriage Equality: How Traditional Marriage Law Led to Constitutional Protection for Same-Sex Marriage, (3 Journal of American Constitutional History 899 (2025)).
• Teresa Stanton Collett, Was Dobbs Worth It? Protecting Life Three Years Later, (U of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper No. 25-15 (2025).
• Danielle Bell, The 1867 Peonage Act Offers a Statutory Solution for Revitalizing Reproductive Rights, (May 15, 2024).
• Naomi Schoenbaum, Sex Equality After Skrmetti, (August 05, 2025).
• Samia Jaman Karobi, Abortion Laws and Bangladesh in 2025: Developments and Challenges, (October 20, 2025).

From SSRN (Religious Law):

• Jeffrey R. Baker, The Church of Dissent in the Imperial Republic, (November 08, 2025).
• Mintae Cha, Representation vs. Democracy? Presbyterianism in the Age of the French Revolution. (Church History , First View , pp. 1 - 27 (Sept. 2025)).
• Samuel J. Levine, A Brief Look at Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism Through a Perspective of Jewish Law and Tradition, (Perspectives on Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism from Literature, Philosophy, Law, and History (Marko Trajkovic, ed., 2025)).
• Imam Sujono, Application of John Stuart Mill's Formal Equality Theory to Distribution of Inheritance for Adopted Children: A Comparative Study of Burgerlijk Wetboek and Compilation of Islamic Law, (November 06, 2025).
• Saparuddin, Optimizing Islamic Public Revenue Sources Through the Islamic Circular Fiscal System (ICFS) Model: A Sustainable Finance Perspective, (October 20, 2025).
• Lutforahman Saeed, Women's Right to Freedom of Movement in Islamic Law and Under Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan, (Fordham International Law Journal (forthcoming)).

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

• Novi Andriani, Policy Anomalies in the Government’s Approach to the Involvement of Religious Organizations in Mining Management in Indonesia, (October 25, 2025).
• Nicole Stelle Garnett & María Paz Madrid, Ecuador:  Funding and Regulation of Private and Faith-Based Schools, (June 01, 2025).
• Nicole Stelle Garnett & Maria Paz Madrid, Columbia:  Funding and Regulation of Private and Faith-Based Schools (June 01, 2025).
• Jane Thomson,  "And Two Cows to my Wife… so Long as she Remains my Widow." Public Policy and Testamentary Marriage Clauses in Canada, (Canadian Bar Review, Volume 103 (3). (Forthcoming)).
• David Antia, The Ramadan School Closure Conundrum: A Legal and Policy Analysis of Religious Freedom and the Right to Education in Nigeria, (March 10, 2025)).
• Bilyana Petkova, Natalie Alkiviadou, Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights  2025, (Human Rights Law Review, volume 25, issue 4 (2025)).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Nicole Stelle Garnett, Parental Rights, Parental Choice, and State Public Education Mandates, 26 The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 73-98 (2025).
• Howard Slugh & Jason Bedrick, Yeshivas and the Legacy of Meyer and Pierce: Is Substantive Due Process Substantial Enough?, 26 The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 241-280 (2025).
• Karina V. Korostelina, Marc Gopin, Jeffrey Helsing & Alpaslan Ozerdem, The Role of Identity and Religion in Peace Processes, 41 Negotiation Journal 195-227 (2025).
• Benjamin Mann, Immigration Enforcement and the Christian Conscience, CatholicVote, 2025).
• Steven H. Sholk, A Guide to Election Year Activities of Section 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) Organizations, (November 2025 edition).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Yaroslav Kotylko, Alternative (Non-Military) Service In Taiwan: Legal Regulation and Comparative Analysis With The Ukrainian Experience, (29 Public Administration and Regional Development 661-693 (2025)).
• Nicholas Aroney, Religion and State Across the Public-Private Divide: A Conceptual Extension of the Loop Model (October 10, 2025).
• William Bunting, Fulfilling America's Unfinished Promise of Individual Liberty: A Second Bill of Rights, (Stetson University College of Law Research Paper Forthcoming).
• Manish Oza, Justiciability in Private Law: Religion and Politics, (Osgoode Hall Law Journal, (forthcoming)).
• Yehia Mekawi, Representing Islam, Recognising Islam: A Single-Case Study of the Grande Mosquée de Bruxelles, (Journal of Muslims in Europe, volume 14, issue 3, 2025).
• Konrad Duden, Gender Self-Determination and Cross-Border Mobility -Recognition of a Changed Gender Entry and Free Movement within the EU, (October 31, 2025).
• Kate Redburn, Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny, (139 Harv. L. Rev. 167 (2025)).
• Zubair Abbasi, Sacred Texts and Profane Realities: Islamic Criminal Laws (Ḥudūd) and Children's Rights in Pakistan (June 01, 2025).
• Deborah Tuerkheimer, Threats to Contraception, (November 07, 2025).
• Emmanuel Ladji Inga, Safeguarding Muslim Women's Religious Rights Trough State Liability? An Amicus Curia Brief, (June 30, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• Joshua Segev, Judges in Their Own Cases: Biblical Kings and Supreme Court Justices, 39 Touro Law Review 1147-1218 (2024).
• Christopher C. Spinosa, Jr., Breaching the Walls of the Inviolable Citadel: The Supreme Court's Treatment of the Lemon Test and Its Progeny, 39 Touro Law Review 1299-1351 (2024).
• Keren Kendil, School Choice & Religious Discrimination: A Story of the Illusory "Wall of Separation," Sour "Lemon Tests," and Overgrown "Baby Blaines", 39 Touro Law Review 1219-1250 (2024).
• Brian Muff, Livin' on a Legislative Prayer: How Prayer at a School Board Meeting Survives under an Exception to the Establishment Clause, 39 Touro Law Review 1251-1297 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Brooke Girley, The Freedom to Be Bound: Antidiscrimination Theology and the Ministerial Exception, (Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, (forthcoming Volume 21)).
• Lilibet O'Connor, Token Freedom of Speech and the Legal Boundaries of Hate Speech in Contemporary Democracies, (October 03, 2025).
• Michael Quinlan, A Legal Education ‘Norn from the Heart of the Church’: The Value of a Religious Faith-based Legal Education: Reflections of a Catholic Law School Dean, (September 22, 2025).
• Michalyn Steele, The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act as a Model of Cultural Sovereignty for Protecting Indigenous Sacred Sites, 94 Fordham L. Rev. 513 (2025).
• Zubair Abbasi & Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema, Family Laws In Pakistan (January 01, 2024).
• Zubair Abbasi, Fluidity of Sharīʿa and the Modern State Inheritance Rights of Childless Widows under Shīʿa Personal Law in British India and Pakistan, (June 01, 2024).
• Bunder Alshammari & Khaled Sebail Alfradi, Denying the Digital Trace: Shared IPs, Islamic Jurisprudence, and the Pragmatics of Blame in Saudi Courtrooms, (Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2025).
• Nathaniel Hay & Isaac Barnes May, Reckoning with Antisemitism in History and Tradition, (2025 Pepperdine L. Rev. 61 (2025)).
• Mark David Hall, Ten Commandments in the Public Square and Public Schools, (November 01, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• Mark Lammey, You're Rendering What unto Whom? How Tithing Is Putting Creditors and Debtors at Odds in Modern Bankruptcy, 33 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 41-70 (2025).
• Mark Rienzi, Re-Evaluating Fulton v. City of Philadelphia: A "Narrow" "Wisp" of a Decision or Free Exercise "Bedrock"?, 74 Catholic University Law Review 384-395 (2025).
• Michael Neal, Targeted Border Prosecutions of Muslims, 49 Vermont Law Review 485-547 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Matthew Bolton, Anti-Zionism as 'Protected Belief': The Case of David Miller, (Forthcoming in Industrial Law Journal).
• Leo E. Strine, Jr., Confronting AI’s Ethical Mirror Test, 49 J. Corp. L. Digit. 101 (2025).
• Drew Taylor, Marriage Equality and the First Amendment: A Pluralism Argument, (October 08, 2025).
• S, Agnes Sachitha, Women’s Rights vs. Fetal Rights: A Clinically, Consciously and Grounded Analysis, (September 15, 2025).
• Amos N. Guiora, Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Politics of Criticism, (Unadorned Conversations on Antisemitism, Scott Douglas Jacobsen, In Sight Publishing. (2025)).
• Ezra Young, Skrmetti's Mistake, (August 01, 2025).
• Catherine E. Smith, Tanya Washington, Jeremiah Chin & Sara Hildebrand, Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars for the Advancement of Children's Constitutional Rights in Support of Defendants-Appellants in Roy v. Darren Patterson Christian Academy, (September 15, 2025).
• David B. Cruz, Invisible Bastards: Nonmarital Children, Transgender People, And Equal Protection, (USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 2526 (2025)).
• Stephen E. Sachs, Zionism and Title VI, (Harvard Law Review Forum, Volume 139 (forthcoming 2025)).
• Eric Steven Smith, Abortion and State Taxes: Unexpected Parallelism, (Forthcoming, Oklahoma Law Review).
• Nicholas Serafin, Obergefell After Dobbs and the Future of Substantive Due Process, (Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 5620630 (2025).

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

• William Jones, The Transmission of Sacred Offices: Royal Bloodlines, Priesthood, and the Continuity of Divine Stewardship, (September 28, 2025).
• Mohd Mudassir M.Ae.S.I, Is the Fluid/Sea/Murky Water Mentiond in Quran Refers to Spacetime? A Scientific Perspective on Quranic Verses, (April 08, 2025).
• Muhammad Munir, The Role of Shari'ah in Pakistani Legal System: An Introduction, (September 30, 2025).
• Michael Quinlan, The Untethering of Law from Faith and Reason: NSW Anti-Discrimination Law Reform, Voluntary Assisted Dying and Surrogacy, (September 12, 2025).
• Michael Quinlan, Religious Freedom in Contemporary Australia, (February 22, 2025).
• Ahmer Bilal Soofi, TAYYAB and Statutory Law of Pakistan, (October 20, 2025).
• Malik Muhammad Aqdus, Ombudsman Institutions: A Study in the Light of Shariah and Pakistani Law, (August 11, 2025).
• Fathimath Sheema Zahir, Anupama Roy, Citizenship Regimes, Law, And Belonging: The CAA And The NRC (July 23, 2025).
• Wajid Kumar, Comparative Legal Studies of Divorce: Insights from Islamic and Secular Jurisdictions, (December 01, 2023).
• Wajid Kumar, Sati as Custom and Crime: A Socio-Legal Examination of Widow Burning Practices, (December 01, 2024).
• George Henry, Triple Talaq and Women's Rights: Human Rights Concerns in Islamic Legal Systems, (December 01, 2024).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Dheepa Sundaram, An Academic Conference, a Bomb Threat, and a Title VI Complaint: U.S. Hindu Nationalist Groups' Litigious Assault on Academic Freedom, 16 Drexel Law Review 837-890 (2024).
•  Australian Journal of Law & Religion, Volume 6 (2025).