Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Rafael Domingo, Theology and Jurisprudence. A Good Partnership?, (Journal of Law and Religion, 32, 2017, Forthcoming).
• Rafael Domingo, The Constitutional Justification of Religion, (March 9, 2017).
• Christine P. Bartholomew, Exorcising the Clergy Privilege, (Virginia Law Review, Vol. 103, 2017).
• Paul H.Robinson and Research Group, Criminal Law, Draft Report of the Somali Criminal Law Recodification Initiative, (U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-13 (2017)).
• Elizabeth Sepper, Zombie Religious Institutions, (Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 112, 2018, Forthcoming).
• Peter H. Schuck, One Nation Undecided: Clear Thinking About Five Hard Issues that Divide Us, (Princeton University Press, March 2017).
• Lisa Mathews, Free Exercise and Third-Party Harms: Why Scholars Are Wrong and RFRA Is Right, (Trinity Law Review, Forthcoming).

From elsewhere:

• Marsha B. Freeman, Holier Than You and Me: ‘Religious Liberty’ Is the New Bully Pulpit and Its New Meaning Is Endangering Our Way of Life, 69 Arkansas Law Review 881 (2017).
•  Tara Smith, What Good Is Religious Freedom? Locke, Rand, and the Non-Religious Case for Respecting It, 69 Arkansas Law Review 944 (2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Khaled A. Beydoun, Acting Muslim, (Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL), Vol. 53, Forthcoming).
• Jaakko Husa, Hindu Law - Stateless Law?, (Scandinavian Studies in Law, Vol. 62, 2017).
• Lama Abu-Odeh, Religious Difference in a Secular Age: The Minority Report by Saba Mahmoud (2016) Book Review, (Feminist Dissent (Forthcoming)).
• Bronwyn Conwell Roantree , Challenging Statutory Accommodations for Religiously Affiliated Daycares: An Application of the Third Party Harm Doctrine, (January 1, 2017).
• Anthony Michael Kreis, Amputating Rights-Making, (Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 69).
• Jerg Gutmann & Stefan Voigt, The Rule of Law and Islam, (Edward Elgar Handbook on the Rule of Law, Forthcoming).
• Harold Anthony Lloyd, Why Originalism Cannot Work: Lessons from Logic, Scripture, and Art, (March 5, 2017).
• Mary Ziegler, The New Negative Rights: Abortion Funding and Constitutional Law after Whole Woman's Health, (March 9, 2017).
• Miranda Perry Fleischer, Subsidizing Charity Liberally, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-261 (2017)).

From SSRN (Marriage):

• Anthony Michael Kreis, Stages of Constitutional Grief: Democratic Constitutionalism and the Marriage Revolution, (University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 20).
• Kerry Abrams, The Rights of Marriage: Obergefell, Din, and the Future of Constitutional Family Law, (March 7, 2017).

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• Edward A. Zelinsky, Churches' Lobbying and Campaigning: A Proposed Statutory Safe Harbor for Internal Church Communications, (Rutgers Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Jared A. Goldstein, Unfit for the Constitution: Nativism and the Constitution, from the Founding Fathers to Donald Trump, (Roger Williams Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 174 (2017)).
• Jonathan P. Kuhn, The Religious Difference: Equal Protection and the Accommodation of (Non)-Religion, (Washington University Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 1, 2016).
• Jerrold A. Long, The Origins of a Rebellion: Religion, Land, and a Western Environmental Ethic, (February 26, 2017).
• Timothy Lubin, Custom in the Vedic Ritual Codes as an Emergent Legal Principle, (Journal of the American Oriental Society 136.4 (2016): 669–687).
• Roger Colinvaux, The Importance of a Participatory Charitable Giving Incentive, (Tax Notes, Vol. 154, No. 5, 2017).

From SmartCILP:

• Cathleen Kaveny & Kevin L. Flannery, Response and Rejoinder: On Voting, Intrinsic Evil, and Ranking of Political Issues, [Abstract], 61 American Journal of Jurisprudence 259-273 (2016).
• Nicole Buonocore Porter, Accommodating Everyone, 47 Seton Hall Law Review 85-136 (2016).
• Samuel D. Brunson, Taxing Utopia, 47 Seton Hall Law Review 137-196 (2016).
• Robin Maril & Sarah Warbelow, Finding an End to Federally Sanctioned Discrimination: A Call to Rescind the 2007 OLC World Vision Memo, 24 American University Journal of Gender Social Policy & Law 445-467 (2016).
• Haider Ala Hamoudi, Resurrecting Islam or Cementing Social Hierarchy?: Reexamining the Codification of "Islamic" Personal Status Law, 33 Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law 329-382 (2016).
• David L. Gregory, Is Religious Liberty the Ultimate Management Prerogative?: Some Reflections on Pacific Lutheran University and Service Employees International Union, Local 925, [Abstract], 33 Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal 207-240 (2016).
• Jonathan D. Colan, The Supreme Court's Talmudic Debate on the Meanings of Guilt, Innocence, and Finality, 73 Washington & Lee Law Review 1243-1294 (2016).
• Vol. 1, Issue 1 of Buddhism Law & Society has appeared.

Recent Book:

• Patrick M. Brennan &William S. Brewbaker III, Christian Legal Thought: Materials and Cases, (Foundation Press, 2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Satvinder Juss, Back to the Future: Justiciability, Religion, and the Figment of 'Judicial No-Man's Land', (Public Law Issue 2, April 2016, pp. 198-206).
• John D. Inazu, Law, Religion, and the Purpose of the University, (Washington University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Giulia Capacci, In Vitro Fertilization, the Catholic Church and National Survival: The Discursive Construction of Reproductive Rights in Poland, (February 3, 2017).
• Barbara P. Billauer, The Secrets of Jethro - Father of Jurisprudence, Patriarch of the Druze, Unifier of Legal Systems, (February 21, 2017).
• Thomas J. McSweeney, Salvation by Statute: Magna Carta, Legislation, and the King's Soul, (William & Mary Bill of Rights, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Deepa Das Acevedo, Temples, Courts, and Dynamic Equilibrium in the Indian Constitution, 64 American Journal of Comparative Law 555-581 (2016).
• Shlomo Pill, Jewish Law Antecedents to American Constitutional Thought, [Abstract], 85 Mississippi Law Journal 643-696 (2016).
• Lua Kamal Yuille, Creating a Babel Fish for Rights & Religion: Defining 'Rights' Through Sacred Texts, [Abstract], 25 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 309-361 (2016).
• Nelson Tebbe. McElroy Lecture. How To Think About Religious Freedom In an Egalitarian Age, [Abstract], 3 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 353-367 (2016).
• Symposium: Global Legal and Religious Perspectives on Elder Care. Introduction by Amy Zeittlow and Naomi Cahn; articles by Israel (Issi) Doron, Charles Foster, M. Christian Green, Nancy J. Knauer, Thomas G. Long, Rabbi Edith M. Meyerson, Diane E. Meier, Allison Kestenbaum, Rahimjon Abdugafurov, Beverly Moran and Xing Guang. 31 Journal of Law & Religion 115-226 (2016). 

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Andrew Koppelman, If Liberals Knew Themselves Better, Conservatives Might Like Them Better, (20 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 1201 (2017))
• Graham Polando, Restraining Free Exercise: Protection Orders and Church Attendance, (February 5, 2017).
• B. Jessie Hill, Kingdom Without End? The Inevitable Expansion of Religious Sovereignty Claims, (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 20, 2017).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson, Unpacking the Relationship between Conscience and Access, (Forthcoming, Law, Religion, and Health in the United States, Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Elizabeth Sepper, eds. Cambridge U. Press 2017).
• Sahar F. Aziz, Losing the 'War of Ideas': A Critique of Countering Violent Extremism Programs, (Texas International Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Christian Turner, Submarine Statutes, (February 8, 2017).
• Mary Anne Case, Forms of Patriarchy in Amoris Laetitia and in the Papacy of Francis, (U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 613 (2017)).
• Claudia E. Haupt, Antidiscrimination in the Legal Profession and the First Amendment: A Partial Defense of Model Rule 8.4(g), (19 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Online (2017 Forthcoming)).
• Gertrude N. Levine & Samuel J. Levine, Internet Ethics, American Law, and Jewish Law: A Comparative Overview (21 J. Tech. L. & Pol’y 37 (2016)).

From SSRN (Focus on individuals):

• Andrew Koppelman, Kent Greenawalt, Defender of the Faith, (Texas Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Michael John DeBoer, Justice Brent E. Dickson, State Constitutional Interpretation, and the Religion Provisions of the Indiana Constitution, (Indiana Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2016).

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

• Shital Prakash Kharat, Effect of the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005 – Judicial Response, (February 6, 2017).
• Grant Robert Hooper, From the Magna Carta to Bentham to Modern Australian Judicial Review: Themes of Practicality and Spirituality, (Australian Institute of Administrative Law (AIAL) Forum, Vol. 84, pp. 22-44, 2016).

From SSRN (LGBT Rights):

• Reva Siegel, Same-Sex Marriage and Backlash: Consensus, Conflict, and Constitutional Culture, (February 9, 2017).
• Susan Frelich Appleton, Obergefell's Liberties: All in the Family, (Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 77, No. 5, 2016).
• Malcolm Langford, Revisiting Joslin v. New Zealand: Same-Sex Marriage in Polarised Times, (E. Brems and E. Desmet, Integrated Human Rights in Practice: Rewriting Human Rights Decisions (Edward Elgar, 2017)).
• Katherine Pratt, The Tax Definition of 'Medical Care': A Critique of the Startling IRS Arguments in O'Donnabhain v. Commissioner, (23 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 313 (2016)).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson, Squaring Faith and Sexuality: Religious Institutions and the Unique Challenge of Sports, (Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Vol. 34, No. 385, 2016).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson, The Nonsense About Bathrooms: How Purported Concerns over Safety Block LGBT Nondiscrimination Laws and Obscure Real Religious Liberty Concerns, (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2017).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Michael J. Churgin, Is Religion Different? Is There a Thumb on the Scale in Refugee Convention Appellate Court Adjudication in the United States? Some Preliminary Thoughts, [Abstract], 51 Texas International Law Journal 213-228 (2016).
• David L. Hudson, Jr. & Emily H. Harvey, Dissecting The Hybrid Rights Exception: Should It Be Expanded or Rejected?, [Abstract], 38 University of Arkansas Little Rock Law Review 449-475 (2016).
• Hon. Gail T. Kulick, Tadd M. Johnson, Rebecca St. George, & Emily Segar-Johnson, From Dysfunction and Polarization to Legislation: Native American Religious Freedom Rights and Minnesota Autopsy Law, 42 Mitchell Hamline Law Reveiw 1699-1721 (2016).
• Law, Religion and the Family Unit After Hobby Lobby: A Tribute to Professor Harry Krause, 2016 University of Illinois Law Review 1227-1808.
• Symposium: Law and Religion In an Increasingly Polarized America,(Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vo. 20, No. 4, 2017).
• Symposium on Religious Liberty and Christian Higher Education, (Two Kingdoms Network, Concordia University, 2017). The Symposium, among others, includes Howard M. Friedman, The Future of Religious Liberty.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Gary S. Gildin, A Blessing in Disguise: Protecting Minority Faiths Through State Religious Freedom Non-Restoration Acts, (23 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 411 (2017)).
• Eduardo M. Penalver, Carbon Trading and the Morality of Markets in Laudato Si, (Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-3 (2017)).
• Tony Sax, Rethinking Legislative Prayer after Town of Greece: How Ceremonial Deism Would Include More and Exclude Less, (2016).
• Jeroen Temperman, Freedom of Religion or Belief in Prison, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion (2017)).
• Sherally K. Munshi, Race, Geography, and Mobility, (Georgetown Immigration Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 245, 2016).
• Timothy Lubin, The Theory and Practice of Property in Premodern South Asia: Disparities and Convergences, (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Forthcoming).
• Santiago Legarre, Natural Law in Judaism Revisited, (82 Prudentia Iuris 239 (2016)).
• Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod,  Aileen M. Marty & Elana Marty-Nelson, Tears in Heaven: Religiously and Culturally Sensitive Laws for Preventing the Next Pandemic, (66 Cath. U. L. Rev. 117 (2017)).
• Brett G. Scharffs, Why Religious Freedom? Why the Religiously Committed, the Religiously Indifferent and Those Hostile to Religion Should Care, (BYU Law Research Paper No. 17-01 (2017)).
• Richard Traunmüller & Marc Helbling, Public Opinion Backlash to Liberal Policy: The Case of Muslim Political Rights in the UK, (January 26, 2017).

From SSRN (Tax and Non-Profits):

• James Patrick Huston, Pauper's Parity: Taking Away the Fine Print of 'Your Contribution is Tax-Deductible', (2016).
• Adam Chodorow, The Parsonage Exemption, (January 28, 2017).
• Samuel D. Brunson & David Herzig, A Diachronic Approach to Bob Jones: Religious Tax Exemptions after Obergefell, (Indiana Law Journal, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Ivan E. Bodensteiner, Not Surprisingly, A Crucifix Conveys a Religious Message, 49 Valparaiso University Law Review 897-906 (2015).
• Robert M. Jarvis, The Story of the Gary, Indiana Crucifix, 49 Valparaiso University Law Review 873-896 (2015).
• Jessica L. Roberts, An Alternative Theory of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, 22 Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 85-120 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Benjamin Schonthal & Tom Ginsburg, Setting an Agenda for the Socio-Legal Study of Contemporary Buddhism (Introduction), (Asian Journal of Law and Society 3:1-16 (2016)).
• Levi Cooper, Culpability for Curses in Jewish Law and Mystical Lore, (Wizards vs. Muggles: Essays on Identity and the Harry Potter Universe, ed. Christopher E. Bell (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016), 168-193).
• Netta Barak Corren, Beyond Dissent and Compliance, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Forthcoming).
• Dimitry Gegenava, Some Technical and Legal Problems of the Constitutional Agreement, (Journal of Law, No. 1, 2016).
• Nelson Tebbe, Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age (Introduction), (N. Tebbe, Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age, Harvard University Press, 2017).
• Helge Årsheim, Religion and International Organizations, (In Ian Hurd, Ian Johnstone, and Jacob Katz Cogan (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 490-507 (2016)).
• Ioana Cismas, The Child's Best Interests and Religion: A Case Study of the Holy See's Best Interests Obligations and Clerical Child Sexual Abuse, (Elaine E. Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane (eds.) Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Best Interests, Welfare and Well-Being (Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 310-325).
• Dipayan Chowdhury & Atmaja Tripathy, Recognizing the Right of the Third Gender to Marriage and Inheritance Under Hindu Personal Law in India, (Chowdhury D., Tripathy A. Recognizing the Right of the Third Gender to Marriage and Inheritance under Hindu Personal Law in India. BRICS Law Journal. 2016;3(3):43-60).
• Michael Boucai, Is Assisted Procreation an LGBT Right?, (Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2016, No. 6, 2016).
• Jud Campbell, Republicanism and Natural Rights at the Founding, (32 Constitutional Commentary 85 (2017)).
• Mohamed A. Arafa & Ahmed El-Ashry, Gender Equality in the Arab and Muslim World: Whither Post-Revolutionary Egypt?, (Gender Equality in a Global Perspective (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies, Chapter 3, London & New York, 2017)).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Justice Barbara A. Jackson, Called to Duty: Justice William J. Gaston, 94 North Carolina Law Review 2051-2096 (2016).
• Gregory A. Mark, Hobby Lobby and Corporate Personhood: Taking the U.S. Supreme Court's Reasoning at Face Value, 65 DePaul Law Review 535-558 (2016).
• Sukhsimranjit Singh, Religious Arbitration and Its Struggles with American Law & Judicial Review, 16 Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal 360-406 (2016).
• Dr. Isha Ann Emhoff, Ellen Fugate & Nir Eyal, Is There a Moral Right to Nonmedical Vaccine Exemption?, 42 American Journal of Law & Medicine 598-620 (2016).
• Lidiya Mishchenko, In Defense of Churches: Can the IRS Limit Tax Abuse by “Church” Impostors?, 84 George Washington Law Review 1361 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Arolda Elbasani, Governing Islam in Plural Societies: Religious Freedom, State Neutrality and Traditional Heritage, (Journal of Balkan and Near Easter Studies 19 (1): 4-18, 2017).
• Perry Dane, Call and Response: A D’Var Torah on Parshat Vayechi, (January 14, 2017).
• Mitchell Landrigan, Could the Implied Freedom of Political Discourse Protect the Speech of a Delisted Anglican Minister?, (January 13, 2017).
• Charles Cohen, Losing Your Children: The Failure to Extend Civil Rights Protections to Transgender Parents, (George Washington Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, 2017).
• Jessica A. Clarke, Frontiers of Sex Discrimination Law, (Michigan Law Review, Vol. 115, No. 6, Forthcoming).
• Victor Asal & Udi Sommer, Legal Path Dependence and the Long Arm of the Religious State (Excerpts), ("Legal Path Dependence & The Long Arm of the Religious State: Sodomy Provisions and Gay Rights Across Nations and Over Time", SUNY Press (October 20, 2016)).
• Johanna Pesendorfer & Othmar Manfred Lehner, Islamic Banking and Finance As an Ethical Alternative: A Systematic Literature Review, (ACRN Oxford Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives 5.2 (2016): 42-64).

From SmartCILP:

• Chad DeVeaux, The Monster Unleashed: How Hobby Lobby Threatens the Freedom of Employees to Practice Religion, 1 Concordia Law Review 114-132 (2016).
• Terence E. Hogan, Gaudium et Spes: Reflections on Dialogue with Cuba, 11 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 249-260 (2016).
• Ayelet Hoffmann Libson, "The Heart Knows its Own Bitterness": Authority, Self, and the Origins of Patient Autonomy in Early Jewish Law, 56 American Journal of Legal Hist. 303-325 (2016).
• Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson, Laudato Si's Challenge to Social Conscience: Society and Nature Together, 11 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 1-13 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Huma Tahir & Iffat Tahira, Freedom of Religion and Status of Religious Minorities in Pakistan, (International Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research, Vol. 5, Issue 12, Dec. 2016).
• Elizabeth Sepper, The Role of Religion in State Public Accommodations Laws, (60 St. Louis University Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Valentino Cattelan, Legal Pluralism, Property Rights and the Paradigm of Islamic Economics, (JKAU: Islamic Economics, 30 (1) (2017)).
• John Witte & Joel A. Nichols, 'Come Now Let Us Reason Together’: Restoring Religious Freedom in America and Abroad, (Notre Dame Law Review, 92:1, 2016).
• John Witte, “Foreword,” to Rafael Domingo, God and the Secular Legal System, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), ix-xii).
• Dimitry Gegenava, Recognition of the Religious Marriage in Georgian Legislative Reality, (Journal of Law, #1, 2015).
• Seema Mohapatra, Assisted Reproduction Inequality and Marriage Equality, (Chicago-Kent Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Jessica A. Clarke, Protected Class Gatekeeping, (New York University Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 1, 2017).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Neil James Foster, Protection of Religious Free Speech in Australia, (Australian Christian Lawyers Conference 2016 - Freedom of Religious Speech).
• Helge Årsheim, Secularist Suspicion and Legal Pluralism at the United Nations, (Religion and Human Rights 11(2): 166-188, 2016).
• Bernard Jackson, Law and Narrative in the Book of Ruth: A Syntagmatic Reading, (August 8, 2016).
• Helge Årsheim, Internal Affairs? Assessing NGO Engagement for Religious Freedom at the United Nations and Beyond, (Anne Stensvold (ed.): Religion, State and the United Nations – Value Politics. London: Routledge, pp. 79-94, 2016).
• Suzanne A. Kim & Katherine A. Thurman, Social Rites of Marriage, (Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Vol. 17, No. 745, 2016).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• Daniel L. Dreisbach, Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers, (Oxford Univ. Press, Dec. 2016).
• Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts, & Michael Jerryson (eds.), Violence and the World's Religious Traditions, (Oxford Univ. Press, Dec. 2016).
• Kent Greenawalt, When Free Exercise and Nonestablishment Conflict, (Harvard Univ. Press,  May 2017).
• Christopher Lane, Surge of Piety: Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life, (Yale Univ. Press, Nov. 2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Yinka Olomojobi, Marriage in Nigeria Across Ages: Problems and Prospects,(September 24, 2016).
• Effie Fokas, Comparative Susceptibility and Differential Effects on the Two European Courts: A Study of Grasstops Mobilizations Around Religion, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 0, 1-33, 2016).
• Eva Brems, Corina Heri,  Saïla Ouald Chaib & Lieselot Verdonck, Head-Covering Bans in Belgian Courtrooms and Beyond: Headscarf Persecution and the Complicity of Supranational Courts, (Forthcoming, Human Rights Quarterly, Fall 2017).
• Keren Weinshall Margel, Udi Sommer, & Ya'acov Ritov, Ideological Influences on Governance and Regulation: The Comparative Case of Supreme Courts, (Regulation & Governance, Forthcoming).
• Ioannis Iglezakis, The Legal Regulation of Hate Speech on the Internet and its Conflict with Freedom of Expression, (December 26, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Curtis Schube, A New Era in the Battle Between Religious Liberty and Smith: SOGI Laws, Their Threat to Religious Liberty, and How to Combat Their Trend, 64 Drake Law Review 883-917 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Belinda Carpenter, Gordon Tait, Carol Quadrelli & Ian Thompson, Investigating Death: The Emotional and Cultural Challenges for Police, (Policing and Society, 26(6), pp. 698-712 (2015)).
• Neil James Foster, Churches and the Law of Sanctuary in Australia, (March 4, 2016).
• Neil James Foster, How Should Religious Marriage Celebrants Respond If Same Sex Marriage Is Introduced in Australia?, (September 25, 2015).
• Fabienne Bretscher, The Swiss Judiciary and International Human Rights Bodies: A Closer Look at Muslim Religious Practices in Public Schools, (June 14, 2016).
• Joel Nolette, Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt: Judicial Review When the Court Wants To, (Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2016).
• Susan A. Bandes, Compassion and the Rule of Law, (International Journal of Law in Context vol. 13 issue 2 (2017 Forthcoming)).
• Eric Franklin, A More Charitable Charity: Administrative Necessity Provides an Opportunity to Promote Altruism in Charities, (December 14, 2016).

From SSRN (Islamic Law);

• Ibrahim Nuruddeen Muhammad, Waqf Based Philanthropy: A Definition and Obstacles to Waqf Knowledge Acquisition in North-Western Nigeria, (1st Kano Waqf International Conference (KWIC) (Dec. 2016).
• Sakirman MSI, Indonesia Islamic Law Study on Children Nasab,  (December 21, 2016).
• Avner M. Emon, Fiqh (A Historiography), (Fiqh: The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law, Edited by Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed (2016)).
• Avner M. Emon, Ijtihad, (Ijtihad: The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law Edited by Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed (2015).

From SmartCILP:

• Reza Afshari, LGBTs in the Islamic Republic of Iran. (Reviewing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights in Iran: Analysis from Religious, Social, Legal and Cultural Perspectives, by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission), 38 Human Rights Quarterly 814-834 (2016).
• Nehaluddin Ahmad, Ahmad Masum & Abdul Mohaimin Ayus, Freedom of Religion and Apostasy: The Malaysian Experience, 38 Human Rights Quarterly 736-753 (2016).
• Jeffrey A. Herman, Resolving ERISA's "Church Plan" Problem, 31 A.B.A. Journal of Labor & Employment Law 231-256 (2016).
• B. Jessie Hill, The First Amendment and the Politics of Reproductive Health Care, 50 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 103-122 (2016).

2016 Law and Religion Bibliography Published By AALS Section

The Association of American Law Schools Law & Religion Section has issued its Winter 2016 Newsletter which includes an extensive bibliography of books and articles on law and religion published during the past year.  It also includes news about the AALS section and its members.

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Hate and Racist Speech in the United States: A Critique, (Philosophy and Public Issues, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 77-123, 2016).
• Niousha Roshani, Grassroots Perspectives on Hate Speech, Race, & Inequality in Brazil & Colombia, (Berkman Klein Center Research Publication No. 2016-18, Dec. 2016).
• Andrew Sellars, Defining Hate Speech, (Berkman Klein Center Research Publication No. 2016-20, Dec. 2016).
• Robert Faris, Amar Ashar, Urs Gasser & Daisy Joo, Understanding Harmful Speech Online, (Berkman Klein Center Research Publication No. 2016-21, Dec. 2016).
• Chinmayi Arun & Nakul Nayak, Preliminary Findings on Online Hate Speech and the Law in India, (Berkman Klein Center Research Publication No. 2016-19, Dec. 2016).

From SSRN:

• Aaron R. Petty, Religion, Conscience, and Belief in the European Court of Human Rights, 48 George Washington International Law Review 807-851 (2016).
• Vincent J. Samar, The Potential Impact of Hobby Lobby on LGBT Civil Rights, 16 Georgetown Journal of Gender & Law 547-591 (2015).

Recent Book:

• Jane Calderwood Norton, Freedom of Religious Organizations, (Oxford Univ. Press, Aug. 2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Kathleen Brady, The Disappearance of Religion from Debates About Religious Accommodation, (20 Lewis & Clark L. Rev., Issue No. 4, in Symposium, Law and Religion in an Increasingly Polarized America, Forthcoming).
• Andrew Koppelman, Lupu, Tuttle, and Singling out Religion, (111 Northwestern University Law Review Online 41 (2016)).
• Avishalom Westreich, Changing Motherhood Paradigms: Jewish Law, Civil Law, and Society, (Hastings Women's Law Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1, Forthcoming).
• Mitchell Landrigan, Protests Outside Abortion Clinics Constitutionally Protected Speech?, (Alternative Law Journal 41(1) 2016).

From elsewhere:

• Steven H. Sholk, A Guide to Election Year Activities of Section 501(c)(3) Organizations, (PLI, 2016 Revision).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Bruce Ledewitz, The Role of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools in the Renewal of American Democracy, (University of Massachusetts Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Mario Ricca, A Modest Proposal: An Overgrown Constitutional Path to Cultural/Religious Pluralism in Italy, (CALUMET – Intercultural Law and Humanities Review, p. 1-46, 11.9.2016).
• Aziz Z. Huq, The Uses of Religious Identity, Practice, and Dogma in 'Soft' and 'Hard' Counterterrorism, (Forthcoming in Security and Human Rights, (Liora Lazarus & Benjamin Goold, eds. Hart Pub. 2017)).
• Jeffrey A. Redding, Formal Marriage, (60 St. Louis U. L.J. 671 (2016)).
• Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Discrimination Against Jewish Women in Halacha (Jewish Law) and in Israel, (British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, December 2016).
• Jenni Millbank, Reflecting the ‘Human Nature’ of IVF Embryos: Disappearing Women in Ethics, Law, and Fertility Practice, (J Law Biosci (2016)).
• Nqobizwe Mvelo Ngema, Polygamy Versus Equality Rights: Is Polyandry a Solution?, (OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 09, No. 07, pp. 11-14, 2016).
• Mark A. Drumbl, The Kapo on Film: Tragic Perpetrators and Imperfect Victims, (Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2016-13 (2016)).
• Adam Parachin, Charity, Politics and Neutrality, (The Charity Law & Practice Review, Volume 18, 2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Carissima Mathen & Michael Plaxton, Legal Education, TWU, and the Looking Glass, ((2016) 75 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 223).
• Asli U. Bali & Hanna Lerner, Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy: Introduction, (Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2017, Forthcoming).
• Darrell A. H. Miller, Institutions and the Second Amendment, (66 Duke Law Journal 69 (2016)).
• Alexander Tsesis, Campus Speech and Harassment, (Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 101, 2017).
• Brian Christopher Jones & Austin Sarat, Justices As 'Sacred Symbols': Antonin Scalia and the Cultural Life of the Law, (British Journal of American Legal Studies (2017) Forthcoming.).
• David L. Sloss, Incorporation, Federalism, and International Human Rights, (Human Rights and Legal Judgments: The American Story (Austin Sarat ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2017).
• Melissa Murray, Obergefell v. Hodges and Nonmarriage Inequality, (104 Calif. L. Rev. 1207 (2016)).
• Sandra Alcaide & Lynne Marie Kohm, Obergefell: A Game-Changer for Women, (14 Ave Marie L. Rev. 101 (2016)).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Luz E. Nagle & Bolaji Owasanoye, Fearing the Dark: The Use of Witchcraft to Control Human Trafficking Victims and Sustain Vulnerability, 45 Southwestern Law Reveiw 561-593 (2016).
• Stephanie N. Phillips, A Text-Based Interpretation of Title VII's Religious-Employer Exemption, 20 Texas Review of Law & Politics 295-340 (2016).
• Symposium Issue: Law, Stewardship, and the Dominion Mandate: Environmental Policy from a Christian Legal Perspective. Foreword by B. Keith Faulkner; introduction by Ian S. Lamont; articles by John Copeland Nagle, Lucia A. Silecchia, Tory L. Lucas and Edna Udobong. 10 Liberty University Law Review 331-500 (2016).
• Symposium on Religion and Family Law. University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2016, No. 4.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Amos A. Israel-Vleeschhouwer, The Mandate System as a Messianic Alternative in the Ultra-Religious Jurisprudence of Rabbi Dr. Isaac Breuer, (49(3) Israel Law Review 339-363 (2016)).
• Scott Altman, Taking Precautions When Shaping a Child's Values, (USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 16-34 (2016)).
• Kathryn Chan, Corporate and Trust Law Dimensions of the Trinity Western University Law School Debate, (November 14, 2016).
• Mickell Branham, Listening to Victims, (in Death Penalty and the Victims, United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, September 1, 2016).
• Brice Dickson & Conor McCormick,The Right to Education for Humanity, (67(4) Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 409-432).
• Joe Pratt, The False Materialism of America's Death Penalty, (November 16, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Garrett Epps, Public Funding and the Road to Damascus: The Legacy of Employment Division v. Smith, 94 Oregon Law Review 659-671 (2016).
• Marion Goldman, Dave Frohnmayer and the Apocalypse that Evaporated, 94 Oregon Law Review 633-657 (2016).
• Symposium. My Religion, My Rules: Examining the Impact of RFRA Laws on Individual Rights. Foreword by Bryan A. Hum; articles by Shai Stern, Scott D. Pollock and Bill Piatt. 79 Albany Law Review 621-704 (2015/2016).
• Symposium on the Meaning of Religious Liberty in the Anglo-American Legal Tradition. Articles by Matthew J. Franck, Andy G. Olree, Jonathan Den Hartog, Scott A. Merriman and Jeffrey B. Hammond. 7 Faulkner Law Review 1-128 (2015).
• Imani Jaafar, Practical Islamic Estate Planning: A Short Primer, 42 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 925-939 (2016).
• Charles J. Russo, Religious Freedom in Faith-Based Educational Institutions in the Wake of Obergefell v. Hodges: Believers Beware, 2016 BYU Education & Law Journal 263-308.
• Colloquium: Religious Liberty after Hobby Lobby: A Panel of the 2014 Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention. Introduction by William L. Saunders; Hon. Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, moderator; Kim Colby, William P. Marshall and Robin Fretwell Wilson, panelists. 48 Connecticut Law Review 969-1011 (2016) [Video of Panel Discussion].

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Steven Douglas Smith, Naturalism and the Trajectory of History, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 16-229 (2015)).
• Charles J. Reid, Same Sex Unions and the Catholic Church: How Law and Doctrine Evolve, (U of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-27, 2016).
• Rinie Steinmann, The Core Meaning of Human Dignity, (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 19, 2016).
• Choice Ubangha, Hate Speech in Cyberspace: Why Education is Better than Regulation, (April 12, 2016).
• Robert J. Delahunty, An Epitaph for ISIS? The Idea of a Caliphate and the Westphalian Order, (U of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-25, 2016).

Recent Articles and Book

From SSRN:

• Sally Tyler, Of Temples and Territory: The ICJ's Preah Vihear Decision and Implications for Regional Dispute Resolution, (University of the District of Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Shaun  Alberto de Freitas, Doctrinal Sanction and the Protection of the Rights of Religious Associations: Ecclesia De Lange v The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 19, 2016).
• Nancy Levit, After Obergefell: The Next Generation of LGBT Rights Litigation, (84 UMKC L. Rev. 605 (2016)).
• Ashraf Booley, The Rights and Freedoms of Moroccan Women: Has the 2004 Reforms Benefited Moroccan Women?, (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 19, 2016).
• R.P.C.R. Rajapakse & Hiruni Nirmali Kaushala, Islamic Banking in Sri Lanka - A Literature Review, (Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (IJIR) Vol 2. Issue 6 pp. 1346-1352 (2016)).
• Mohamed Badar, The Self-Declared Islamic State (ISIS / Da‘Esh) and Ius Ad Bellum Under Islamic International Law, (The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (2017) vol. 1).
• Muhammad Masum Billah, Extensive Use of Ḥilah in Islamic Banking and Finance, ((2015) 59.1 Islamic Quarterly 65-88).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• F. Peter Phillips, Ancient and Comely Order: The Use and Disuse of Arbitration by New York Quakers, 2016 Journal of Dispute Resolution 81-114.
• Neil Foster, Freedom of Religion and Balancing Clauses in Discrimination Legislation, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion (2016).

New Book:

• Leslie C. Griffin, Law and Religion: Cases and Materials, Fourth Edition, (Foundation Press, 2016).