Recent Articles, Book and Video of Interest

From SSRN:

• Arthur J. Jacobson, The Messiah and the Law, (Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 502 (2016)).
• Alan C. Weinstein, Regulation of Religious Uses Under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, (Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 16-296 (2016)).
• Nomi Maya Stolzenberg, It's about Money: The Fundamental Contradiction of Hobby Lobby, (Southern California Law Review, Vol. 88, 2015).
• Yinka Olomojobi, Legal Dimensions to Religious Freedom in Nigeria, (September 24, 2016).
• James Hill, Whose Best Interest? Why Michigan's New Adoption Law Is Unconstitutional and Prevents the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services from Helping Adoptable Children, (2 Admin. Law Rev. Accord 17, 2016).
• Paola Bergallo & Agustina Michel, Constitutional Developments in Latin American Abortion Law, (International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 135 (2016) 228–231).
• Yinka Olomojobi, Radical Islam & E-Terrorism in Africa, (October 24, 2016).
• Robert W. McGee, Toilets, Transgenders, and the Supreme Court, (October 29, 2016).
• Robert W. McGee, The New Prohibitionism: The Movement to Regulate Personal Behavior, (October 26, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Symposium: Religious Liberty and the Free Society: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Dignitatis Humanae. Keynote address by John H. Garvey; articles by Paul Horwitz, Thomas C. Berg, Christopher C. Lund, Vincent Phillip Munoz, Brett G. Scharffs, Anna Su, Marc O. DeGirolami, Mark L. Movsesian and Steven D. Smith. 91 Notre Dame Law Review 1287-1569 (2016).
• Karyn Ball, Post-Secular Messianism Against the Law: Judith Butler on Walter Benjamin and 'Sacred Life', [Abstract], 27 Law & Critique 205-227 (2016).
• Janeanne Lubin-Szafranski & Gregory J. Pepe, Catholic Doctrine and Aid in Dying, 34 Quinnipiac Law Review 667-689 (2016).
• Jennifer A. Marshall, Burwell v. Hobby Lobby: Protecting Religious Freedom in a Diverse Society, [Abstract], 10 N.Y.U. Journal of Law & Liberty 327-345 (2016).

Recent Book:

• Daniel P. Dalton, Litigating Religious Land Use Cases, Second Edition, (ABA Book Publishing, Oct. 2016).

New Video:

• European Court of Human Rights, (Oct. 17, 2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Susanna Mancini, Global Religion in a Post-Westphalia World, (Handbook on Global Constitutionalism (A. Lang & A. Wiener eds.), Elgar Publishing (2017 Forthcoming)).
• Steven Aiello, Islamic and Jewish Law Approaches to Killing, (October 15, 2016).
• Rangita de Silva de Alwis & Indira Jaising, The Role of Personal Laws in Creating A 'Second Sex', (New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Vol. 48, Pg. 1085, 2016).
• Alan C. Weinstein, Regulation of Religious Uses Under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, (Local Government, Land Use, and the First Amendment, American Bar Association, 2017 Forthcoming).
• Effie Fokas, Banal, Benign or Pernicious? Religion and National Identity From the Perspective of Religious Minorities in Greece, (New Diversities, 2015, Vol. 17, No. 1, 47-62).
• Daphne Gilbert, Let Thy Conscience Be Thy Guide (But Not My Guide!): Physicians and the Duty to Refer, (McGill Journal of Law and Health 2016 10(2)).
• Neil Siegel, The Distinctive Role of Justice Samuel Alito: From a Politics of Restoration to a Politics of Dissent, (Yale Law Journal Forum, Vol. 126, p.164 (2016)).
• Fatmir Halili & Arif Riza, The Betrothal and Marriage - According to Islamic Law (Shariah) and Under the Secular System, (October 15, 2016).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Gregory M. Lipper, The Contraceptive-Coverage Cases and Politicized Free-Exercise Lawsuits, University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2016. pp. 1331- 1346.
• Yifat Bitton, Suspension, Hu(wo)man Rights and Torts: Discriminatory Religious Practices and Hu(wo)man Rights Suspension Tactics in Remedying Feminine Suffering Through Tort Law, 14 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 669-726 (2016).
• Charles Leben, Hebrew Sources in the Doctrine of the Law of Nature and Nations in Early Modern Europe, 27 European Journal of International Law 79-106 (2016).
• Marvin Lim, Human Dignity and Punishment in Judaic and Islamic Law: War and the Death Penalty, [Abstract], 22 Southwestern Journal of International Law 303-358 (2016).
• Shlomo C. Pill, Valuing Our Discordant Constitutional Discourse: Autonomous-Text Constitutionalism and the Jewish Legal Tradition, 64 Buffalo Law Review 349-411 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jeffrey A. Redding, Shamim Ara and the Divorce Politics of a Secular and Modern India, (October 8, 2016).
• Shamsul Falaah, Theocratic Constitutionalism: A Discourse on the Political System, Democracy, Judiciary and Human Rights Under Islamic Theocratic Constitutionalism, (Waikato Islamic Studies Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2016).
• Sahar F. Aziz, The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging (Book Review), Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Vol. 45, Iss. 2, p. 204-206, 2016.
• Guido Calabresi & Eric S, Fish, Federalism and Moral Disagreement, (Minnesota Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Douglas NeJaime & Reva Siegel, What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said, Concurring Opinion, (in What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said (Jack Balkin ed., 2017 Forthcoming).
• Katherine M. Franke, Opinion of Justice Katherine Franke in Obergefell v. Hodges, (inWhat Obergefell Should Have Said (Yale U. Press 2017), Jack Balkin ed., Forthcoming).
• Ben Boer, Culture, Rights and the Post-2015 Development Agenda, (Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging Legal Discourses, A. Durbach, L. Lixinski, eds, Hart Publishing, UK, Forthcoming).
• Christoph Engel, The Solidarity Motive, (MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2016/14 (2016)).

From SmartCILP:

• Special Issue: Islamic Law: Its Sources, Interpretation, Its Economics, Finance and the Translation Between It and Laws Written in English. Articles by Rafat Y. Alwazna, Abdul-Hakim Al-Matroudi, Mustafa Shah, Ramon Harvey, Shafi Fazaluddin, Valentino Cattelan, Sami Al-Daghistani, Abbas Mehregan, Daniel Vazquez-Paluch, Fahad Al-Zumai, Mohammed Al-Wasmi and Hanem El-Farahaty. 29 International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 251-501 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Christopher C. Lund, RFRA, State RFRAs, and Religious Minorities, (San Diego Law Review, Vol. 53, p. 163, 2016 (symposium)).
• Pranoto Iskandar, The Human Right to Non-Religious Beliefs: A Prospectus, (September 23, 2016).
• Christopher C. Lund, Keeping Hobby Lobby in Perspective, (in The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty (Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flanders, and Zoë Robinson eds., Oxford University Press, 2016)).
• Joel A. Nichols & John Witte, Religious Law and Religious Courts as a Challenge to the State (National Report for United States of America), (Religious Law and Religious Courts as a Challenge to the State: Legal Pluralism from a Comparative Perspective, Ed. Uwe Kischel (Verlag Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2016), 83-111).
• Nelson Lund, Rousseau's Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy: A New Introduction, (Rousseau’s Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy, N. Lund, Palgrave, 2016).
• Michele Goodwin & Allison M. Whelan, Constitutional Exceptionalism, University of Illinois Law Review, 2016, (Forthcoming).
• Paul J. Heald, Christian Libertarianism and the Curious Lack of Religious Objections to the Patenting of Life Forms in the United States, (September 29, 2016).
• Engy Abdelkader, A Comparative Analysis of European Islamophobia: France, UK, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden, (UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, Vol. 16, 2016).
• G. Michael Fenner, Same-Sex Marriage, Conscientious Objection and an Ambushed Pope, (Creighton Lawyer, Fall 2016).
• Katayoun Alidadi, The Limits of State Law in the Case of an Organized Secular-Humanist Community in the Southern Bible Belt: Model Behaviour Shaping Self-Restrained Law Use, (Rechtsphilosophie: Zeitschrift Fur Grundlagen Des Rechts, Forthcoming 2016).
• Jason N. E. Varuhas, Damages and Human Rights: Introduction, (Chapter 1 of JNE Varuhas, Damages and Human Rights (Hart Publishing, 2016)).
• Jeremy Waldron, What a Dissenting Opinion Should Have Said in Obergefell v. Hodges, (September 28, 2016).
• Iain T. Benson, Undazzling Equality, (September 24, 2016).
• Brian D. Galle, Valuing the Right to Sue: An Empirical Examination of Nonprofit Agency Costs, (September 28, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Rowan W. Dorin, "Once the Jews Have Been Expelled": Intent and Interpretation in Late Medieval Canon Law, 34 Law & History Review 335-362 (2016).
• Mohammad Rasekh, Sharia and Law in the Age of Constitutionalism, [Abstract], 2 Journal of Global Justice & Public Policy 259-276 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Farrah Ahmed, The Autonomy Rationale for Religious Freedom, Modern Law Review, Forthcoming.
• Jason C. Roberts, Unwinding Non-Native Control over Native America's Past: A Statistical Analysis of the Decisions to Return Native American Human Remains and Funerary Objects under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 1992–2013, (University of Hawaii Law Review, Vol. 38, 2016).
• James M. Oleske, Grand Theory or Discrete Proposal? Religious Accommodations and Health Related Harms, (73 Washington and Lee Law Review Online 387 (2016)).
• Amos A. Israel-Vleeschhouwer, Engaging Religious Laws, Players and Communities: Confronting Religious Dis-Empowerment, (in Kyriaki Topidi & Lauren Fielder (eds.), Religion as Empowerment: Global Legal Perspectives (Routledge, 2016), 149-181).
• Abhilasha Shrawat, The Dark Side of Personal Law: Gender Inequality, (September 19, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Rob Atkinson, Liberalism, Philanthropy, and Praxis: Realigning the Philanthropy of the Republic and the Social Teaching of the Church, 84 Fordham Law Review 2633-2675 (2016).
• Roni Adil Elias, Transforming the Business Corporation into a Religious Association: How Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. Made the Religious Values of Fictional Persons Mean More than the Reproductive Rights of Women, 40 N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change 1-27 (2016).
• Mark Strasser, Narrow Tailoring, Compelling Interests, and Free Exercise: On ACA, RFRA and Predictability, 53 University of Louisville Law Review 467-508 (2016).
• Symposium. Religion and the Law. Introduction by Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod; articles by Beverly Moran, Rahimjon Abdugafurov, Haider Ala Hamoudi, Karima Bennoune, Marie A. Failinger, Timothy J. Tracey, Shawn Markus Crincoli, Mary Anne Case, Frank S. Ravitch, Robert Katz, Asma T. Uddin and SpearIt. 11 Florida International University Law Review 1-219 (2015).
• Waris Husain, Simmering Shia Genocide in Pakistan: Early Warning and Action, 6 Human Rights & Globalization Law Review 3-28 (2015/2016).

Recent Articles and Upcoming Conference of Interest

From SSRN:

• James M. Oleske, A Regrettable Invitation to 'Constitutional Resistance,' Renewed Confusion Over Religious Exemptions, and the Future of Free Exercise, (20 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. in Symposium, 'Law and Religion in an Increasingly Polarized America', (Forthcoming)).
• Sarah M. Stephens, Employer Conscience after Hobby Lobby and the Continuing Conflict between Women's Rights and Religious Freedom, (2016).
• Richard W. Garnett, Justice Scala, Religious Freedom, and the First Amendment, Notre Dame Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1637 (2016).
• Nuel Chinonyelum Oji, Obergefell v Hodges and the Problem of Judicial Legislation, (University of Nigeria Bar Journal(UNBJ) 3 (2016) 147).
• Catherine Jean Archibald, Transgender Bathroom Rights, (Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, Forthcoming).
• Riley Fredrick, Marriage Equality: The Paralleled Progress between Public Approval and Supreme Court Decision-Making, (Florida State University Law Review, Forthcoming).

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

• Paul Maginn & Graham Ellison, ‘Ulster Says No’: Regulating the Consumption of Commercial Sex Spaces and Services in Northern Ireland, (Urban Studies, Forthcoming).
• Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias & Wojciech Sadurski, Law of Ritual Slaughter and the Principle of Religious Equality, (Journal of Law, Religion and State, Forthcoming).
• Jeffrey A. Redding, Transgender Rights in Pakistan?: Global, Colonial, and Islamic Perspectives, (September 11, 2016).
• Satvinder Juss, The Justiciability of Religion, (Forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Religion - Cambridge University Press).
• Howard Kislowicz, On Collective Constitutional Rights: Lessons for Religious Rights from Language Rights, ((2016) 75 S.C.L.R. (2d) 31).
• Solomon A. M. Ekwenze, Nigeria's Multi-Religious Platform: A Myth or Reality - Public Holidays a Question, (September 7, 2016).
• Federico Masera, State, Religiosity and Church Participation, (September 14, 2016).
• Connor M. Ewing, The Structural Articulation of 'Equal Dignity', (August 28, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Zachary Bray, RLUIPA and the Limits of Religious Institutionalism, (2016 Utah Law Review 41-103).
• Julia L. Ernst, How Should the South African Constitutional Court Approach Tensions Between Women's Rights and Religious Rights?, 60 New York Law School Law Review 493-516 (2015/16).
• Ruth C. Stern & J. Herbie DiFonzo, Dogging Darwin: America's Revolt Against the Teaching of Evolution, 36 Northern Illinois University Law Review 33-82 (2016).

Upcoming Conference:

• Religious Critiques of Law, Pepperdine University, March 9-10, 2017.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Steven Menashi, How Great is the Threat to Religious Freedom, Really?, (Mosaic Magazine, August 17, 2015).
• Michael W. McConnell, Mark E. Schneider, Jay P. Lefkowitz & Steven Menashi, Brief of Amici Curiae Former Justice Department Officials in Support of Petitioners in Zubik v. Burwell, (2016).
• Shachar Eldar & Elkana Laist, The Irrelevance of Motive and the Rule of Law, (New Criminal Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Marc O. DeGirolami, Religious Accommodation, Religious Tradition, and Political Polarization, (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Christopher C. Lund, Religious Exemptions, Third-Party Harms, and the Establishment Clause, (Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 91, p. 1375, 2016 (symposium)).
• John C. Eastman, No Free Lunch, But Dinner and a Movie (and Contraceptives for Dessert)?, (10 N.Y.U. J. L. & Liberty 282 (2016)).
• Robert Corn-Revere, Hate Speech Laws: Ratifying the Assassin's Veto, (Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 791 (2016)).

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

• Effie Fokas, Directions in Religious Pluralism in Europe: Mobilizations in the Shadow of European Court of Human Rights Religious Freedom Jurisprudence, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Vol 4, No.1, 54-74 (2015)).
• Luke Beck, The Case against Improper Purpose as the Touchstone for Invalidity under Section 116 of the Constitution, (Federal Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 3, Forthcoming).
• Gbohou Gnantin Hilaire Tegnan & Saldi Isra, Rule of Law and Human Rights Challenges in South East Asia: A Case Study of Legal Pluralism in Indonesia, (April 1, 2016).
• Preethi Kumar Mokshagundam, Dr. Ambedkar's Concept of Social Justice and Indian Constitution Protection for Dalits – A Recent Day Analysis, (August 23, 2016).
• Paul Dermine, Towards the Recognition of a Pan-European Right to Same-Sex Marriage – What If Light Came from the United States?, (June 1, 2016).
• Matthew S. Erie, Sharia, Charity, and Minjian Autonomy in Muslim China: Gift Giving in a Plural World, (American Ethnologist 43(2): 311-423 (2016)).

From SmartCILP:

• Walter C. Long, The Constitutionality and Ethics of Execution-Day Prison Chaplaincy, [Abstract], 21 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 1-33 (2015).
• Michael Stokes Paulsen, The Unconscionable War on Moral Conscience (reviewing Robert P. George, Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism), 91 Notre Dame Law Review Rev. 1167-1195 (2016).
• Mark Strasser, Hobby Lobby, RFRA, and Family Burdens, [Abstract], 25 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 239-264 (2016).
• Special Issue: A Thousand Years of Infamy: The History of the Blood Libel. Edited by Richard H. Weisberg; preface by Richard H. Weisberg; articles by Jeffrey Mehlman, Hannah R. Johnson, Richard H. Weisberg, David Fraser and Vivian Grosswald Curran. 28 Law & Literature 1-95 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Marjorie A. Silver, Preface and Introduction: Transforming Justice, Lawyers and the Practice of Law, (Carolina Academic Press, 2016, Forthcoming).
• Adam Shinar, Religion and the Construction of the Urban Landscape, (Private Communities and Urban Governance 215 (Amnon Lehavi ed., Springer, 2016)).
• Mohammed Dejen Assen, Contested Secularism in Ethiopia: The Contention between Muslims and the Government, (May 26, 2016).
• Ira C. Lupu & Robert W. Tuttle, The Mystery of Unanimity in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. EEOC, (Forthcoming, 20 Lewis & Clark L. Rev, Issue #4, in Symposium, Law and Religion in an Increasingly Polarized America).
• Paula A. Monopoli, Inheritance Law and the Marital Presumption after Obergefell, (8 Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal 437 (2016)).
• Iginio Gagliardone, et.al., Mechachal: Online Debates and Elections in Ethiopia - From Hate Speech to Engagement in Social Media, (May 1, 2016).
• Ji Ma & Sara Konrath, Thirty Years of Nonprofit Research: Scaling the Knowledge of the Field 1986-2015, (September 2, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Amy Barrow, Contested Spaces During Transition: Regime Change in Myanmar and Its Implications for Women, 22 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 75-108 (2015).

Recent Articles, Books and Upcoming Conference of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jeffrey Benjamin Meyers, Nietzsche and the Law of the ‘The Other’: The Jew in Refraction, (August 19, 2016).
• Carl J. Minniti, The Lanham Act's Unconstitutional Hodgepodge, (17 Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion 315, 2016).
• Claudia E. Haupt, Unprofessional Advice, (University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 19, 2017).
• Evelyn Aswad, The Role of U.S. Technology Companies as Enforcers of Europe's New Internet Hate Speech Ban, (Forthcoming in Columbia Human Rights Law Review Online).
• Dr. R.N. Mangoli &Tanushri Anchan, Honour Based Violence: A Threat to Humanity, (August 23, 2016).
• Eduardo M. Penalver, Laura Spitz, Elizabeth Brundige & Lucia Domínguez Cisneros, U.S. Nonprofit Activity in Cuba: The Cuban Context, (Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-31, 2016).

Recent & Forthcoming Books:

• Nelson Tebbe, Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age, (Harvard Univ. Press, Jan. 2017).
• Harvey Cox, The Market as God, (Harvard Univ. Press, Sept. 2016).
• Finbarr Curtis, The Production of American Religious Freedom, (NYU Press, Aug. 2016).
• Robert W. Hefner (ed.), Shari'a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics, (Indiana Univ. Press, Aug. 2016).
• Robert Schmuhl, Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh-- On and Off the Record, (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, Aug. 2016).

Upcoming Conference:

• 2016 Conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools, Regent University, Sept. 29-30.

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• Stephen R. Munzer, Secularization, Anti-Minority Sentiment, and Cultural Norms in the German Circumcision Controversy, (37 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 503-81 (2015)).
• Ran Hirschl, Early Engagements with the Constitutive Laws of Others: Possible Lessons from Pre-Modern Religious Law, (Law & Ethics of Human Rights 10 (2016): 71-108).
• Teri Dobbins Baxter, From Influenza to Ebola: Legal and Business Implications of Employer-Mandated Vaccination Policies, (July 25, 2016).
• Kim H. Pearson, Innate Religious Identity, (84 UMKC L. Rev. 803 (2016)).
• Roderick M. Hills, Jr., Decentralizing Religious and Secular Accommodations,(Institutionalizing Rights and Religion: Competing Supremacies, Leora F. Batnitzky & Hanoch Dagan eds., (Cambridge University Press, 2017 Forthcoming)).
• Amos A. Israel-Vleeschhouwer, Jewish Law and Space: Symbolic Fencing (Eruv), Public Presence (Parhesia) and Borders, (August 15, 2016).
• Andrew Koppelman, Kathleen Brady, the Distinctiveness of Religion in American Law: Rethinking Religion Clause Jurisprudence, (Journal of Religion, Forthcoming).

From SSRN (Islamic Law);

• Adnan Zulfiqar, Revolutionary Islamic Jurisprudence: A Restatement of the Arab Spring, (New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Forthcoming).
• Michelle Burgis-Kasthala, How Should International Lawyers Study Islamic Law and Its Contribution to International Law?, (RegNet Research Paper No. 2016/113 (2016)).
• Waeibrorheem Waemustafa & Suriani Sukri, Syari’Ah Compliance and Lawful Profit Making Dilemma in Malaysian Islamic Banks, (August 16, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Nathan Lee, Convert or Die: Forced Religious Conversions and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 47 Georgetown Journal of International Law 573-606 (2016).

New Book:

• Thomas C. Berg, The State and Religion in a Nutshell, Third Edition, (West, Sept. 2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Michael Makovi, Price-Controls in Jewish Law, (August 1, 2016).
• John Copeland Nagle, Humility and Environmental Law, (10 Liberty University Law Review 335 (2016)).
• Nicholas Aroney, Joel Harrison & Paul T. Babie, Religious Freedom Under the Victorian Charter of Rights, (Matthew Groves and Colin Campbell (eds), Australian Charters of Rights a Decade On (Federation Press, 2016)).

Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 31, No. 1, has recently been published.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Andy G. Olree, A Madisonian Vision of Religious Liberty, (7 Faulkner L. Rev. 19 (2015)).
• Asli U. Bali & Hanna Lerner, Constitutional Design Without Constitutional Moments: Lessons from Religiously Divided Societies, (Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 49, Forthcoming).
• Salim Farrar & Ghena Krayem, Law, Religion and the Challenge of Accommodation, (Accommodating Muslims under Common Law: A Comparative Analysis, S. Farrar, G. Krayem, Routledge, UK, Forthcoming).
• Ghazi Hashimi, Defending the Principle of Legality in Afghanistan: Toward a Unified Interpretation of Article 130 to the Afghan Constitution, (March 2, 2016).
• D. A. Jeremy Telman, The African-American Interest in Higher Law in the Supreme Court: Justices Marshall and Thomas, (31 Temple Int'l & Comp. L. J. Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Donald H.J. Hermann, Artificial Nutrition and Hydration and the Patient in Persistent Vegetative State: Roman Catholic Magisterial Teaching on the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment versus the Obligation to Provide Ordinary Care, 40 University of Dayton Law Review 407-443 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Lucia Ann Silecchia, 'Social Love' as a Vision for Environmental Law: Laudato Si' and the Rule of Law, (10 Liberty University Law Review 371 (2016)).
• Geurt Henk Spruyt, Politicians and Epidemics in the Bible Belt, (Utrecht Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 114-126, June 2016).
• Nelson Tebbe, Micah Schwartzman & Richard Schragger, When Do Religious Accommodations Burden Others?, (The Conscience Wars: Rethinking the Balance between Religion, Identity, and Equality (Susanna Mancini & Michel Rosenfeld eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017 Forthcoming)).
• Nelson Tebbe, Micah Schwartzman & Richard Schragger, How Much May Religious Accommodations Burden Others?, (in Law, Religion, and Health in the United States (Elizabeth Sepper, Holly Fernandez Lynch, and I. Glenn Cohen, ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017 Forthcoming)).
• Johnny Rex Buckles, The Sexual Integrity of Religious Schools and Tax Exemption, U of Houston Law Center No. 2016-W-2. (2016)).
• Robert C. Blitt, Equality and Nondiscrimination Through the Eyes of an International Religious Organization: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Response to Women's Rights and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Rights, (July 26, 2016).
• Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema, Fatawa in Pakistani Courts: An Appraisal, (July 26, 2016).

From elsewhere:

• U.S. Department of Justice, Combating Religious Discrimination Today: Final Report, (July 2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Paul T. Babie, Australia and Australian External Territories in Brill, Encyclopedia of Law and Religion (July 2016).
• Melissa Crouch, Promiscuity, Polygyny and the Power of Revenge: The Past and Future of Burmese Buddhist Law in Myanmar, (Asian Journal of Law and Society, Special Issue on Buddhism and Law in Asia, Forthcoming).
• Eva Brems, Objections to Anti-Discrimination in the Name of Conscience or Religion: A Conflicting Rights Approach, (Forthcoming in The Conscience Wars: Rethinking the Balance between Religion, Identity, and Equality (Susanna Mancini & Michel Rosenfeld eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017)).
• Claudia E. Haupt, Religious Outliers: Professional Knowledge Communities, Individual Conscience Claims, and the Availability of Professional Services to the Public, (Law, Religion, and Health in the United States (Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, & Elizabeth Sepper eds. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017 Forthcoming)).
• Perry Dane, Scopes of Religious Exemption: A Normative Map, (Religious Exemptions, Oxford University Press, Forthcoming).
• Christopher McCrudden, Marriage Registrars, Same-Sex Relationships, and Religious Discrimination in the European Court of Human Rights, (July 20, 2016).
• Peter J. Boettke, Joshua C. Hall & Kathleen M. Sheehan, Was Adam Smith Right about Religious Competition?, (West Virginia University, Department of Economics, Working Paper No. 15-47 (2015)).
• Melissa Crouch, Introduction: Islam and the State in Myanmar, (Melissa Crouch (ed), Islam and the State in Myanmar: Muslim-Buddhist Relations and the Politics of Belonging. Oxford University Press, 2016, Forthcoming).
• Oonagh B. Breen, Guardians of the Charitable Realm: Charitable Trust Supervision Practice and Procedure in the Common Law World, (European Review of Private Law, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Benjamin Porat, Ownership and Exclusivity: Two Visions, Two Traditions, 64 American Journal of Comparative Law 147-190 (2016).
• Richard A. Epstein, Religious Liberty Under Siege In Mississippi, (Hoover Institution, Defining Ideas, July 18, 2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Holly Fernandez Lynch & Gregory Curfman, Bosses in the Bedroom: Religious Employers and the Future of Employer-Sponsored Health Care, (Law, Religion, and Health in the United States (Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Elizabeth Sepper, eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2017 Forthcoming).
• Roland Pierik, On Religious and Secular Exemptions. A Case Study of Childhood Vaccination Waivers, (General Subserie Research Paper No. 2016-02 (2016)).
• Kellen R. Funk, 'Interference in Churches Must Be Referred to the Rights of Property': Church Corporations and Conflict of Laws in Antebellum America, (Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2018).
• Merel Jonker, Mariëtte van den Hoven & Wendy Schrama, Editorial: Religion and Culture in Family & Law, (Utrecht Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 1-6, June 2016).
• Wibo M. van Rossum & Mariëtte van den Hoven, Paucity and the Need for Value Sensitivity in Dealing with Youth Care: Why Legal and Youth Professionals Should Take Cultural and Religious Considerations Seriously, (Utrecht Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 7-23, June 2016).
• Tammy Harel Ben-Shahar, Race, Class and Religion: Creaming and Cropping in Religious Charter Schools, (Columbia Journal of Race and Law, Forthcoming).
• Adam MacLeod, Tempering Civil Rights Conflicts: Common Law for the Moral Marketplace, (Michigan State Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Ethan Blevins, A Fixed Meaning of 'Religion' in the First Amendment, (July 13, 2016).

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

• Aan Jaelani, Religion, Economy, and State: Economic Thought of Al-Mawardi in Adab Al-Dunya Wa-Al-Din, (MPRA Paper No. 72090 (June 2016)).
• Jet Tigchelaar & Merel Jonker, How is a Judicial Decision Made in Parental Religious Disputes? An Analysis of Determining Factors in Dutch and European Court of Human Rights Case Law, (Utrecht Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 24-40, June 2016).
• Eva Brems, SAS V France: A Reality Check, (July 15, 2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• 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, (726/13) [2014] ZASCA 151 (July 1, 2016).
• Joanna Diane Caytas, Disposing of Relics: Overt and Covert Blasphemy Statutes in Europe, (Columbia Journal of European Law: Preliminary Reference (April 1, 2016)).
• Sylvia Ann Law, Scott Skinner-Thompson & Hugh Baran, Marriage, Abortion and Coming Out, (Columbia Law Review Sidebar, Vol. 116, Forthcoming).
• Lucia Ann Silecchia, Laudato Si' and Care for Our Common Home: What Does it Mean for the Legal Professional?, (6 Seattle J. of Envtl. L. 1 (2016)).
• Adedayo Damilola Oyebade, Human Rights Protection: A Panacea for the Use and Involvement of Women in Terrorism, (June 29, 2016).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Alex Reed, RFRA v. ENDA: Religious Freedom and Employment Discrimination, 23 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and Law 1-37 (2016).
• Vincent J. Samar, Toward a New Separation of Church and State: Implications for Analogies to the Supreme Court Decision in Hobby Lobby by the Decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, 36 Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice 1-31 (2016).
• 21st International Law and Religion Symposium. Keynote address by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch; articles by Neville Rochow, Vanja-Ivan Savic, Asma T. Uddin and Jean-Paul Willaime; comments by students Jarom R. Jones & Zachary D. Smith. 2015 BYU L. Rev. 585-874.
• Joseph D. Kearney, The Supreme Court and Religious Liberty, 99 Marquette Law Review 427-445 (2015).
• Mark Strasser, Free Exercise and Substantial Burdens Under Federal Law. 94 Nebraska Law Review 633-684 (2016).
• Human Rights and the National Interest: The Case Study of Asylum, Migration, and National Border Protection. Article by Fr. Frank Brennan; response by Mary Ellen O'Connell. 39 Boston College International & Comparative Law Review 47-95 (2016).
• Women in the Revolution: Gender and Social Justice After the Arab Spring. Introduction by Adrien K. Wing; articles by Mounira Maya Charrad, Shafiqa Ahmadi, Karima Bennoune, Sahar F. Aziz, Seval Yildirim and Fatina Abdrabboh; roundtable participation by Adrien K. Wing, moderator; Fatina Abdrabboh, Shafiqa Ahmadi, Sahar F. Aziz, Karima Bennoune, Mounira Maya Charrad, Sara Ghadiri, Ahmad E. Souaiaia, Seval Yildirim, discussants; interview of Mounira Maya Charrad. 18 Journal of Gender Race & Justice 341-476 (2016).
• Symposium, Public Religion, Private Communities and Human Rights, Law & Ethics of Human Rights, Vol. 10, Issue 1 (May 2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Bernard Jackson, Mediation and Immediacy in the Jewish Legal Tradition, (June 26, 2016).
• Natasha Bakht & Lynda Margaret Collins, The Earth is Our Mother: Freedom of Religion and the Preservation of Aboriginal Sacred Sites in Canada, (Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2016-24, 2016).
• Musa Njabulo Shongwe, Cultural and Religious Relativism as Opposition to the Aims of International Human Rights Law: Revisiting the Universalism vs. Regionalism Debate, (June 29, 2016).
• William B. Turner, The National Masturbators' Task Force; or, The Importance of LGBT Political Organizing for Evaluating LGBT Equal Protection Claims in Competition with Free Exercise of Religion Claims, (Journal of Law and Sexuality, Forthcoming).
• Jennifer Hendry & Melissa L. Tatum, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, and the Pursuit of Justice, (34 Yale Law & Policy Review 351 (2016)).
• Sarah Cravens, 'Love's Congruence': A Theological Account of Wisdom for Judges, (Tulsa Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 3, 2015).
• Varun Kumar Aery, Bringing Marriage Equality Overseas: A New Argument for International Human Rights Law, (2 U.C. Davis J. Int'l L & Pol'y 22 (2015)).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Jill Wilson, Linda S. Rosenman, Ben White, Cheryl Tilse & Rachel Feeney, Cultural Considerations in Will-Making in Australia: A Case Study of Islamic or Sharia-Compliant Wills, (Alternative Law Journal, Vol. 41(1), Pp. 23-26, 2016).
• Michelle Limenta, Bayan Edis & Oscar Fernando, Disabling Labeling: The WTO Consistency of the Indonesian Mandatory Halal Labeling Law, (Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), Fifth Biennial Global Conference, Working Paper 2016/08, 2016).
• Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Islamic Constitutionalism: Not Secular. Not Theocratic. Not Impossible, (16 Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion 553 (2015)).
• M.B. Hooker, The Evolution of Singapore's Common Law Fiqh, 1957-2013, (Australian Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 17, No. 1, Article 9, 2016).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Steven P. Brown, The Girard Will and Twin Landmarks of Supreme Court History, 41 Journal of Supreme Court History 7-20 (2016).
• Carol Goforth, A Corporation Has No Soul, and Doesn't Go to Church: Relating the Doctrine of Piercing the Veil to Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, 67 South Carolina Law Review 73-97 (2015).
• Emilia Justyna Powell, Islamic Law States and the Authority of the International Court of Justice: Territorial Sovereignty and Diplomatic Immunity, 79 Law & Contemporary Problems 209-236 (2016).
• Evan C. Rothera, The Tenacious "Twin Relic": Republicans, Polygamy, and The Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States, 41 Journal of Supreme Court History 21-38 (2016).
• Symposium on LGBT Antidiscrimination Law and Policy After Hobby Lobby. Foreword by David Dinielli; articles by Ira C. Lupu, Andrew Koppelman, Leslie C. Griffin and Elizabeth Sepper. 7 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 1-170 (2015).
• Journal of Law, Religion and State, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (2016) has recently appeared.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Patrick McKinley Brennan, A Catholic Way to Cook a Hamburger? The Catholic Case against McLaw, (Villanova Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Corinna Lain, Death Row, Calls for Indifference, and Redemption of the Soul, (77 Ohio St. L.J. Furthermore, Forthcoming).
• Caroline Mala Corbin, Deference to Claims of Substantial Religious Burden, (Illinois Law Review Online, p.10, 2016).
• Danielle Weatherby & Terri Day, LGBT Rights and the Mini RFRA: A Return to Separate But Equal (Draft), (DePaul Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Dwight G. Newman, Judicial Method on Rights Conflicts in the Context of Religious Identity, (June 24, 2016).
• Courtney G. Joslin, Marriage Equality and its Relationship to Family Law, (129 Harv. L. Rev. F. 197 (2016)).

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

• Gabor Halmai, Constitutionalism, Law, and Religion in Israel: A State's Multiple Identities, (J Civil Legal Sci 2016).
• Mohamed Abdelaal, The Paradox of Freedom of Religion in Post-Revolutionary Egypt, (Pieter Coertzen, M. Christian Green, and Len Hansen (eds.) Religious Freedom and Religious Pluralism in Africa: Prospects and Limitations (African Sun Media, 2016)).
• Luke Beck, When is an Office or Public Trust 'Under the Commonwealth' for the Purposes of the Religious Tests Clause of the Australian Constitution?, (Western Sydney University School of Law Research Paper No. 04/2016 (2016)).
• Alfons Aragoneses, Convivencia and Filosefardismo in Spanish Nation-building, (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2016-05 (2016)).
• Victor M. Muniz-Fraticelli, The (Im)Possibility of Christian Education, (June 21, 2016).
• Robert W. McGee, The Relationship between Religion and Views Toward Homosexuality: An Empirical Study of 98 Countries, (June 23, 2016).
• Robert W. McGee, Does Religion Influence Views Toward Homosexuality: An Empirical Study of 16 Countries, (June 23, 2016). 
• Peter M. Beattie, Anti-Semitism and Opposition to Israeli Government Policies - The Roles of Prejudice and Information, (June 15, 2016).
• Elen Seymour & Marina Nehme, The ACNC, the Senate, the Commission of Audit and the Not-for-Profit Sector, (Western Sydney University School of Law Research Paper No. 05/2016 (2015)).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Debbie Kaminer, Religious Accommodation in the American Workplace: The Impact of the Supreme Court's Decision in EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch, (June 10, 2016).
• Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Review of Beyond Church and State by Matthew Scherer, (Augustinian Studies 47:1 (2016) 114–118).
• Danieli Evans, Religious Objections to the Death Penalty after Hobby Lobby, (Stanford Law & Policy Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2015).
• Abner S. Greene, A Secular Test for a Secular Statute, (University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 34, 2016).
• Mark Walters, Challenging Orthodoxy: Towards a Restorative Approach to Combating the Globalization of Hate, (The Globalization of Hate: Internationalizing Hate Crime, Chapter 18, 2016).
• Jennifer Schweppe & Mark Walters, Hate Crimes: Legislating to Enhance Punishment, (Oxford Handbooks Online, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2015).
• Mark Walters, Readdressing Hate Crime: Synthesizing Law, Punishment and Restorative Justice, (Hate, Politics, Law, Oxford University Press, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Symposium: Religious Accommodation in the Age of Civil Rights. 9 Harvard Law & Policy Review 1-193 (2015).
• Scott Titshaw, Same-Sex Spouses Lost in Translation? How to Interpret “Spouse” in the E.U. Family Migration Directives, 34 Boston University International Law Journal 45 (2016).

Recent Books:

• John Witte, Jr. and Joel A. Nichols, Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, Fourth Edition, (Oxford Univ. Press, April 2016).
• Danielle Keats Citron, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, (Harvard Univ. Press, May 2016).
• Ferruh Yilmaz, How the Workers Became Muslims-- Immigration, Culture, and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe, (University of Michigan Press, 2016).
• Jonathan Fox, The Unfree Exercise of Religion-- A World Survey of Discrimination against Religious Minorities, (Cambridge Univ. Press, Feb. 2016).
• Norman Doe, Christian Law-- Contemporary Principles, (Cambridge Univ. Press, Nov. 2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Petr Agha, The Burqa Ban's Dark Side – Uncovering Face Covering Bans, (June 1, 2016).
• Andrew Koppelman, A Free Speech Response to the Gay Rights/Religious Liberty Conflict, (Northwestern University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• M. Christian Green, Apostasy Through Doubt and Dissent, (Forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Religion, July 2016).
• M. Christian Green, 'Graceful Pillars': Law, Religion, and the Ethics of the 'Daughter Track', (Forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Religion, July 2016).
• Rex Ahdar, Companies as Religious Liberty Claimants, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2016).
• Marc O. DeGirolami, Substantial Burdens Imply Central Beliefs, (St. John's School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series, 16-0014 (2016)).
• M. Christian Green, Jean Bethke Elshtain, (Christianity and Family Law, Chapter 24, Forthcoming).
• Debbie Kaminer, Religious Accommodation in the Workplace: Why Federal Courts Fail to Provide Meaningful Protection of Religious Employees, (Texas Review of Law & Politics, Vol. 20, No. 107, 2015).
• Robert W. McGee, Toilets, Transgenders, and Property Rights, (June 9, 2016).
• Suneal Bedi, Fully and Barely Clothed: Case Studies in Gender and Religious Employment Discrimination in the Wake of Citizens United and Hobby Lobby, (Hastings Business Law Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2016).
• Rex Ahdar, Charity Begins at the Politically Correct Home? The Family First Case, (Otago Law Review (2015) 14(1) 171-189).

From SmartCILP:

• Neil Hamilton, Madeleine Coulter & Marie Coulter, Professional Formation/Professionalism's Foundation: Engaging Each Student's and Lawyer's Tradition on the Question "What Are My Responsibilities to Others?" 12 University of  St. Thomas Law Journal 271-338 (2016).
• Brett R. McCaw, Pro Deo et Patria: The Greek Catholic Church and Ukrainian National Life--Past and Present. 9 University of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy 94-124 (2014).
• Kent Greenawalt, McElroy Lecture. Granting Exemptions from Legal Duties: When Are They Warranted and What Is the Place of Religion?, 93 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 89-117 (2016).
• Mark Strasser, Free Exercise and the Definition of Religion: Confusion in the Federal Courts, 53 Houston Law Review 909-937 (2016).
• Symposium: Human Rights and the Sexualization of Culture, 2 Journal of Global Justice & Public Policy 173-258 (2015).
• The Morality of Market Mechanisms. Leslie Carothers, moderator; Lucia Ann Silecchia, Bob Perciasepe, Caroline Farrell, participants. [Abstract], 46 Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis 10005-10016 (2016).