Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Joseph E. David, Incest, (Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2015)).
• Victor C. Romero, The Prodigal Illegal: Christian Love and Immigration Reform, (Denver University Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 917, 2015).
• Douglas NeJaime & Reva Siegel, Conscience Wars in Transnational Perspective: Religious Liberty, Third-Party Harm, and Pluralism, (The Conscience Wars: Rethinking the Balance between Religion, Identity, and Equality (Susanna Mancini & MIchel Rosenfeld eds., Cambridge Univ. Press 2017).
• Joel S. Newman, What is a Church? A Look at Tax Exemptions for the Original Kleptonian Neo-American Church and the First Church of Cannabis, (Lexis Federal Tax Journal Quarterly, December 2015).
• Kadir Nagac, Religiosity and Tax Compliance, (January 14, 2016).
• Spencer Churchill, Justice Kennedy and the Unfolding Doctrine of Corporate Religious Sincerity, (May 21, 2015).
• Felice Batlan, Forging Identities: Jewish Women, Legal Aid, and the Secular Liberal State, 1890-1930, (Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, Forthcoming).

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

• Hassan Poorbafrani & Masoud Zamani, A Comparative Critique of Regulating the Personal and the Personality Principles in the Iranian Penal System, (January 10, 2016).
• Yinka Olomojobi, Gender and Sharia Law in Northern Nigeria, (July 10, 2015).
• Shamshad Pasarlay, Islam and the Sharia in the 1993 Mujahideen — Draft Constitution of the Islamic State of Afghanistan: A Comparative Perspective,(January 11, 2016).

From SmartCILP, Academia and elsewhere:

• Noura Erakat, Whiteness As Property in Israel: Revival, Rehabilitation, and Removal, 31 Harvard Journal of Racial & Ethnic Justice 69-103 (2015).
• Myriam Hunter-Henin, Religion, Children and Employment: The Baby Loup Case, 64 International & Comparative Law Quarterly 717-731 (2015).
• Ali Altaf Mia, Legal Religion: Ethical Norms and Demands of Justice, (Chap. 21 in Jeffrey J. Kripal (ed.), Religion: Sources, Perspectives, and Methodologies (Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, 2016)).
• Dani Kranz, Quasi-Ethnic Capital vs. Quasi-Citizenship Capital: Access to Israeli Citizenship, (Migration Letters, Volume: 13, No: 1, pp. 64– 83, Jan. 2016).
• Bryce Langford, The Minister’s Housing Allowance: Should It Stand, and If Not, Can Its Challengers Show Standing?,  63 Kansas Law Review 1129 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Nelson Tebbe, Religion and Social Coherentism, (Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 363, 2015).
• Julie A. Nice, Conjuring 'Equal Dignity': Mapping the Constitutional Dialogue to and from Same-Sex Marriage, (31 Civil Rights Litigation Handbook 373 (Steven Saltzman ed. 2015)).
• Laura M. Weinrib, Freedom of Conscience in War Time: World War I and the Civil Liberties Path Not Taken, (Emory Law Journal, Vol. 65, No. 4, Forthcoming).
• Simone Chriss & Danaya C. Wright, After Obergefell v. Hodges: The Continuing Battle Over Equal Rights for Sexual Minorities in the United States, (GenIUS, December 2015, at 18).
• Philip T. Hackney, Charitable Organization Oversight: Rules v. Standards, (Pittsburgh Tax Review, Forthcoming).
• Alan D. Viard, The Basic Economics of Pease and PEP, (Tax Notes, Vol. 146, No. 6, 2015).

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

• Shauna Van Praagh, 'Open House' - 'Portes Ouvertes': Classrooms as Sites of Interfaith Interface, (B. Berger and R. Moon, eds., Religion and the Exercise of Public Authority (forthcoming, 2016, Hart Publishing)).
• David Schneiderman, Multiculturalism in Canadian Constitutional Culture: Domesticating Difference, (January 4, 2016).
• Bina D'Costa, 'You Cannot Hold Two Watermelons in One Hand': Gender Justice and Anti-State Local Security Institutions in Pakistan and Afghanistan, (In Hitoshi Nasu and Kim Rubenstein (eds) Legal Perspectives on Security Institutions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2015), pp. 47-72).
• Sean Davidson, Necessary Questions in Free Religion Cases: Application of 'General Applicability' to the French Veil Case, (Charles University in Prague Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2015/III/2).
• András Koltay, Privacy in Public Places – Celebrities, Suicides, Outsiders, Naked Men and Muslim Veils on the Street, (January 6, 2016).
• Maria Gloria Polimeno, The 2014 Egyptian Constitution: Balancing Leadership with Civil Rights (Al-Wataniyya), (Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law. Vol. 3 issue 1 p. 1-67 (2015)).
• Mohammad Fadel, Islamic Law and Constitution-Making: The Authoritarian Temptation and the Arab Spring, (Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 24/2015).

From SmartCILP:

• Journal of Law & Religion, Vol. 30, No. 2 (June 2015) has recently appeared.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Lincoln L. Davies, Energy, Consumption, and the Amorality of Energy Law, (109 AJIL Unbound 147 (2015)).
• Michal Tamir, The Freedom to Exclude: The Case of the Israeli Society, (Israel Law Review 49(1), 2016, Forthcoming).
• Leonid Sykiainen, Sharia Courts: Modern Practice and Prospectives in Russia, (Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 60/LAW/2015).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• James A. Sonne, Religious Liberty, Clinical Education, and the Art of Building Bridges, 22 Clinical Law Review 251-300 (2015).
• Jennifer Fredette, Becoming a Threat: The Burqa and the Contestation Over Public Morality Law in France, [Abstract], 40 Law & Social Inquiry 585-610 (2015).
• Mark A. Lemley, Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture. Faith-Based Intellectual Property. 62 UCLA Law Review Rev. 1328-1346 (2015).
• McNulty, Patrick J. and Adam D. Zenor, Corporate Free Exercise of Religion and the Interpretation of Congressional Intent: Where Will It End?, 39 Southern Illinois University Law Journal 475-513 (2015).
• Twentieth Annual International Law and Religion Symposium: Varieties of Secularism, Religion, and the Law. Speeches by Francoise Tulkens, Malcolm D. Evans and Mark Hill; articles by Louis-Leon Christians, David Little and Andrea Pin. 2014 BYU Law Review 509-633.
• Kevin C. Walsh, Addressing Three Problems in Commentary on Catholics at the Supreme Court by Reference to Three Decades of Catholic Bishops' Amicus Briefs, 26 Stanford Law & Policy Review 411-35 (2015).
• Aliza Plener Cover, Archetypes of Faith: How Americans See, and Believe in, Their Constitution, 26 Stanford Law & Policy Review 555-96 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• John Witte, 'To Serve Right and to Fight Wrong': Why Religion, Human Rights, and Human Dignity Need Each Other, (Marta Cartabia and Andrea Simoncini, eds., Pope Benedict XVI’s Legal Speeches in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 106-122).
• Alessandro Spina, Reflections on Science, Technology and Risk Regulation in Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’, (European Journal of Risk Regulation 4/2015).
• Piro Rexhepi, Mainstreaming Islamophobia: The Politics of European Enlargement and the Balkan Crime-Terror Nexus, (East European Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2-3, 2015, pp. 189-214).
• Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Expert Religion: The Politics of Religious Difference in an Age of Freedom and Terror, (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2015/97).
• Rachel Nadelman, 'Let Us Care for Everyone's Home': The Catholic Church's Role in Keeping Gold Mining out of El Salvador, (CLALS Working Paper Series No. 9, Dec. 2015).
• Nelson Tebbe & Paul Horwitz, Religious Institutionalism — Why Now?, (Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 429, Dec. 2015).
• D.E. Frydrychowski, A Critique of Blackstone's Praemunire, (December 21, 2015).
• Bernard Jackson, Law and Narrative in the Book of Ruth: A Syntagmatic Reading, (December 20, 2015).
• David M. Shapiro, To Seek a Newer World: Prisoners’ Rights at the Frontier, (Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 15-48 (Dec. 2015)).
• Robert W. Emerson & Jason R. Parnell, Franchise Hostages: Fast Food, God, and Politics, (Journal of Law and Politics, Vol. 29, No. 353, p. 353-396, 2014).
• Martha Bailey, The Marriage Law of Jane Austen's World, (Persuasions On-line, V.36, No.1 (Winter 2015)).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Samuel J. Levine, A Critique of Hobby Lobby and the Supreme Court's Hands-Off Approach to Religion, (Notre Dame L. Rev. Online 26 (2015)).
• Steven Douglas Smith, The Tortuous Course of Religious Freedom, (Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Aliza Cover, Archetypes of Faith: How Americans See, and Believe in, Their Constitution, (Stanford Law & Policy Review, Vol. 26, No. 555, 2015).
• Thomas M. Keck, Hate Speech and Double Standards, (Constitutional Studies 1:1 (Fall 2015)).
• Angela D. Morrison, Misconstruing Notice in EEOC Administrative Processing & Conciliation, (Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 14, p. 785-805, 2014).

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

• Nicola Carr, Paula Devine, Siobhan McAlister & Gail Neill, Public Attitudes Towards LGB Equality, (Access Research Knowledge, No 106, 2015).
• Pietro Faraguna, Regulating Religion in Italy: The Constitution Does (Not) Matter, (December 14, 2015).
• Piotr Godzisz, Forgotten Friends. ODIHR and Civil Society in the Struggle to Counter Hate Crime in Poland, (2015).
• Michael J. T. McMillen, Legal and Regulatory Considerations Pertaining to Islamic Capital Markets, (Islamic Capital Markets, Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim, eds. Forthcoming).
• Tipu Salman Makhdoom, Enigmatic Sex Laws of Pakistan, (December 15, 2015).
• Saadiah Mohamad, et. al., Enhancing Cross Border Connectivity: Venturing into Islamic Finance as a New Source of Infrastructure Financing, (Journal of Emerging Economies and Islamic Research, Vol.3, No.3 (2015)).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Yousef T. Jabareen, The Arab-Palestinian Community in Israel: A Test Case for Collective Rights under International Law, 47 George Washington International Law Review 449-480 (2015).
• Charles J. Russo, Mergens v. Westside Community Schools at Twenty-Five and Christian Legal Society v. Martinez: From Live and Let Live to My Way or the Highway?, 2015 BYU Education and Law Journal 453-480.
• Kristen Stilt, Contextualizing Constitutional Islam: The Malayan Experience, [Abstract], 13 I.Con: International Journal of Constitutional Law 407-433 (2015).
• Fatahillah Abdul Syukur & Dale Margaret Bagshaw, Victim-Offender Mediation with Youth Offenders in Indonesia, [Abstract], 32 Conflict Resolution Quarterly 389-411 (2015).
• Journal of Law & Religion, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2015) has recently appeared.
• Andrea M. Alonso & Kevin G. Faley, Pope’s New Rule on Annulment: Will the Law Keep Up?, New York Law Journal, Dec. 18, 2015.
• SCOTUSblog's Zubik v. Burwell Symposium, (Dec. 2015).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Barry McDonald, Democracy's Religion: Religious Liberty in the Rehnquist Court and into the Roberts Court, (University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Josh Blackman & Howard M. Wasserman, The Process of Marriage Equality, (Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 243-335, 2016 Forthcoming).
• Anthony C. Infanti, Comments on Proposed Treasury Regulations Defining Terms Relating to Marital Status, (December 3, 2015).
• Suzanne B. Goldberg, Obergefell at the Intersection of Civil Rights and Social Movements, (California Law Review Circuit, Vol 6., p. 157, 2015).
• William A. Edmundson, Charlie Hebdo Meets Utility Monster, (The Critique, forthcoming).
• Mirko Daniel Garasic & Shay Keinan, Boycotting Israeli Academia: Is Its Implementation Anti-Semitic?, (International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, Vol. 15, Iss. 3 pp. 189-199, 2015).
• Pamela Foohey, Lender Discrimination, Black Churches, and Bankruptcy,(December 7, 2015).

From SSRN (Issues from Commonwealth countries):

• Justin H. Dabner, Multiculturalism and Legal Plurality in Australia, (December 8, 2015).
• Megan Pearson, Moderation and Equality Law Disputes, (Aug 7, 2014).
• Victor M. Muniz-Fraticelli & Lawrence David, Religious Institutionalism in a Canadian Context, (Osgoode Hall Law Journal (Forthcoming)).
• Christopher Nyinevi & Edmund Amasah, The Separation of Church and State Under Ghana's Fourth Republic, (Journal of Politics and Law; Vol. 8, No. 4; 2015).
• Muhammad Asif Khan & Farooq Muhammad Hayat, Pakistan's Vulnerable Minorities and the Anti-Blasphemy Laws: Is There a Way Out?, (Europa Ethnica, Vol 1, No. 2, 2015, p. 49-54).

From SSRN (Issues in Islamic Law):

• Haroun Rahimi, Applicability of Church Autonomy and Religious Question Doctrines to the Shari’Ah Board in Islamic Financial Institutions, (December 8, 2014).
• Hdeel Abdelhady, Specialized Insolvency Regimes for Islamic Banks: Regulatory Prerogative and Process Design, (The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 5: Fostering Development through Opportunity, Inclusion, and Equity, 2014).
• Tipu Salman Makhdoom, Shufa: A Dead Law Walking, (December 4, 2015).
• Justin H. Dabner, Islamic Finance in Australia: Interest or Not Interest, that is the Question?, (December 8, 2015).

From elsewhere:

• Samuel V. Bruton, Looks‐Based Hiring and Wrongful Discrimination, [Abstract], 120 Business and Society Review 607-35 (Winter 2015).
• The 2015 update of Steven H. Sholk, A Guide To Election Year Activities of Section 501(c)(3) Organizations is now available.

Recent Books:

• Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flanders, and Zoë Robinson (eds.), The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty, (Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2016).
• François-Xavier Licari, Le Droit Talmudiqe, (Dalloz, Nov. 2015).

Recent Articles of Interest and New Bibliography

From SSRN:

• Jens T. Theilen, Towards Acceptance of Religious Pluralism: The Federal Constitutional Court's Second Judgment on Muslim Teachers Wearing Headscarves, (German Yearbook of International Law 58 (2015)).
• Julia Rackow, From Conflict to Cooperation: The Relationship between Karlsruhe and Strasbourg, (in Katja S Ziegler, Elizabeth Wicks and Loveday Hodson (eds), The UK and European Human Rights: A Strained Relationship?, (Hart, 2015) (draft version)).
• Luke Beck, When Is an Office or Public Trust 'Under the Commonwealth' for the Purposes of the Religious Tests Clause of the Australian Constitution?, (Monash University Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 17-39, 2015).
• Haroun Rahimi, The Customary Practice of Gerawee in Afghanistan: A Case for Transitioning to Real Equity-Based Finance, (Indonesian Journal of International & Comparative Law, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• M. Cherif Bassiouni, Misunderstanding Islam on the Use of Violence, 37 Houston Journal of International Law 643-677 (2015).
• Bonnie Honig, The Laws of the Sabbath (poetry): Arendt, Heine, and the Politics of Debt, 5 University of California Irvine Law Review 463-482 (2015).
• Karen A. Jordan, The Contraceptive Mandate: Compelling Interest or Ideology?, 41 Journal of Legislation 1-64 (2014-15).
• Yehiel S. Kaplan, Immigration Policy of Israel: The Unique Perspective of a Jewish State, 31 Touro Law Review 1089-1135 (2015).
• James A. Sonne, Domestic Applications of Sharia and the Exercise of Ordered Liberty, 45 Seton Hall Law Review 717-759 (2015).
• Gila Stopler, The Right to an Exclusively Religious Education--The Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel in Comparative Perspective, 42 Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law 743-796 (2014).
• Shaheer Tarin, An Analysis of the Influence of Islamic law on Saudi Arabia's Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Practices, [Abstract], 26 American Review of International Arbitration 131-154 (2015).
• Christopher Blain, Employing One's "Talents": The Power of Innovative Bond Transactions to Finance Catholic Nonprofits, 33 Journal of Law  Commerce 207-238 (2015).
• Philip Hamburger, Exclusion and Equality: How Exclusion From the Political Process Renders Religious Liberty Unequal, 90 Notre Dame Law Review 1919-1980 (2015).

Bibliography:

• The 2015 Law and Religion Bibliography, a 35-page bibliography of books, articles and blogs published in 2015, has been distributed as part of the AALS Section on Law and Religion Dec. 2015 Newsletter.

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Prakash Shah, Does Durkheim Enhance Our Understanding of Law and Religion?, (Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 212/2015, Nov. 2015).
• Jeffrey M. Hirsch, EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc.: Mistakes, Same-Sex Marriage, and Unintended Consequences, (Texas Law Review, Vol. 94, 2015, Forthcoming).
• Nicholas Aroney, Faith in Public Office: The Meaning, Persistence and Importance of Oaths, (November 23, 2015).
• Lucia Ann Silecchia, Pope Francis and the Vocation of the Lawyer: Reflections on Service and Responsibility, (54 J. of Cath. Legal Stud. 23 (2015)).
• Lewis A. Grossman, Orthodoxy and 'The Other Man's Doxy': Medical Licensing and Medical Freedom in the Gilded Age, (November 19, 2015).
• Susan Frelich Appleton, The Forgotten Family Law of Eisenstadt v. Baird, (Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, Vol. 28:1, 2016).
• Cynthia Godsoe, Marriage Equality and the 'New' Maternalism, (California Law Review Circuit, Vol. 6, No. 145, 2015).
• Jay P. Greene & Cari A. Bogulski, The Effect of Public and Private Schooling on Anti-Semitism, (EDRE Working Paper No. 2015-10, Nov. 2015).
• Abdul Azeez Maruf Olayemi, et. al., Islamic Interbank Money Market: A Comparative Legal Study between Malaysia And Some Notable Jurisdictions, (2015 1 SHR, SHARIAH REPORT, A Journal of Islamic Law, Banking & Finance, Malaysian Current Law Journal (MCLJ)).
• Eric C. Chaffee, Collaboration Theory: A Theory of the Charitable Tax Exempt Nonprofit Corporation, (November 22, 2015).
• UPDATE: Netta Barak Corren, Does Anti-Discrimination Law Influence Religious Behavior?, (Hastings Law Journal, Forthcoming).

Recent Books:

• William Lazarus (with Sid Kleiner), Passover In Prison, (CreateSpace, July 2015).
• Saba Mahmood, Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, (Princeton Univ. Press, Nov. 2015).
• Katherine Franke, Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality, (NYU Press, Nov. 2015).
• William A. Schabas, The European Convention on Human Rights-- A Commentary, (Oxford Univ. Press, Nov. 2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Robin Boyle, Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults, (St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-0030 (Nov. 2015)).
• Ruthann Robson, Justice Ginsburg's Obergefell v. Hodges, (University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, 2015).
• Kevin M. Barry, Jennifer Levi, Jennifer, Neelima Vanguri & Brian Farrell, A Bare Desire to Harm: Transgender People and the Equal Protection Clause, (Boston College Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Serena Mayeri, Marriage (In)Equality and the Historical Legacies of Feminism, (California Law Review Circuit, Vol. 6, Pg. 126, 2015).
• Ryan H. Nelson, Sexual Orientation Discrimination Under Title VII after Baldwin v. Foxx, (72 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 255 (2015)).
• Abdul Azeez Maruf Olayemi, Abdul Majeed Hamzah Alabi & Ahmad Hidayah Buang, Islamic Human Rights Law: A Critical Evaluation of UIDHR & CDHRI in Context of UDHR, (Journal of Islam, Law and Judiciary, Vol. 1, Issue 3, 2015, pp. 27-36).
• Abdul Azeez Maruf Olayemi,  Aznan Hasan, Uzaimah Ibrahim & Ahmad Hidayah Buang, Non-Interest (Islamic) Liquidity Management in the Nigerian Non-Interest Banking: A Legal Study from the Experience of Malaysia, ([2015] 1 SHR, Shariah Report (A Journal on Islamic Law, Banking & Finance), Malaysian Current Law Journal (MCLJ)).

From SmartCILP:

• Peter Nash Swisher, "I Now Pronounce You Husband and Wives": The Case for Polygamous Marriage After United States v. Windsor and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, 29 BYU Journal of Public Law 299-325 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Perry Dane, Foreword: On Religious Constitutionalism, (16 Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion 460 (2015)).
• Marsha B. Freeman, Liberal, Conservative, and Political: The Supreme Court's Impact on the American Family in the Uber-Partisan Era, (Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, Vol. 18, 2015).
• Haider Ala Hamoudi, 'Lone Wolf' Terrorism and the Classical Jihad: On the Contingencies of Violent Islamic Extremism, (Florida International University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Haider Ala Hamoudi, The Ironies of Shi'i Law, ("Regulating Religion" Conference sponsored by the Centre for Asian Studies, National University, Singapore, Dec. 2015).
• Marc O. DeGirolami, Virtue, Freedom, and the First Amendment, (Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Giuseppe Zago, A Victory for Italian Same-Sex Couples, A Victory for European Homosexuals? A Commentary on Oliari v Italy, (Article 29, August 21, 2015).
• Muhammad Mushtaq Ahmad, The Crime of Rape and the Hanafi Doctrine of Siyasah, (Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 6:1 (2014), 161-192).
• Terry A. Maroney & Phillip J. Ackerman-Lieberman, 'As a Father Shows Compassion for His Children': Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives on Judicial Empathy, (3 Journal of Law, Religion and State, 239 (2014)).

From elsewhere:

• Vol. 35, No. 6 of the National Center for Science Education has a series of articles reflecting on the tenth anniversary of the Kitzmiller (intelligent design) decision.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Lotem Perry-Hazan, Curricular Choices of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Communities: Translating International Human Rights Law to Education Policy, (Oxford Review of Education, Forthcoming).
• Mark Strasser, The Protection of Conscience: On ACA, RFRA and Free Exercise Guarantees, (82 Tennessee Law Review 345-404 (2015)).
• Jill I. Goldenziel, The Curse of the Nation-State: Refugees, Migration, and Security in International Law, (Arizona State Law Journal, 2016).
• Harry G. Hutchison, Religious Liberty for Employers as Corporations, Natural Persons or Mythical Beings? A Reply to Gans, (Penn State Law Review, Vol. 120, 2015, Forthcoming).
• Barry Sullivan, Access to Information: Citizenship, Representative Democracy, and Catholic Social Thought, (From Democracy, Culture, Catholicism: Voices from Four Continents (Fordham University Press 2015)).
• Khaled A. Beydoun, Between Indigence, Islamophobia, and Erasure: Poor and Muslim in 'War on Terror' America, (104 California Law Review ___ (2016 Forthcoming)).
• Richard J. Ross, Binding in Conscience: Early Modern English Protestants and Spanish Thomists on Law and the Fate of the Soul, (Law and History Review 33(4) (November 2015): 803-37).
• Partners for Law in Development, Piecing Together Perspectives on Witch Hunting: A Review of Literature, (2013).
• Ian Murray, The Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission: Reform or Un-Reform?, (2014) 17 Charity Law and Practice Review 151

From SSRN (Obergefell decision):

• Carlos A. Ball, Bigotry and Same-Sex Marriage, (University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 3, 2016).
• Laurence H. Tribe, Equal Dignity: Speaking its Name, (Harvard Law Review Forum, Vol. 129, pp. 16-32, 2015).
• Nan D. Hunter, Interpreting Liberty and Equality Through the Lens of Marriage, (6 Cal. L. Rev. Circuit 107 (2015)).
• Cynthia Godsoe, Perfect Plaintiffs, Yale Law Journal Forum, Vol. 125, No. 136, 2015.
• Carl H. Esbeck, A Post-Obergefell America: Is a Season of Legal and Civic Strife Inevitable?, (University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-24).

From SSRN (Islamic law):

• Michael J. T. McMillen, The Arcapita Group Bankruptcy: A Restructuring Case Study, (Global Trends in Islamic Commercial Law: International Shari'ah Research Academy for Islamic Finance and Thomson Reuters Report, 2015).
• Yusuf Roque Santos Morales, A Community Development Framework Based on the Maqasid Shariah and the Millenium Development Goals, (June 4, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• John D. Haskell & Jessica Fish, Law As Eschatology, 53 Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 185-209 (2014).
• John O. Hayward, The Free Exercise Clause: Fealty to God or Caesar?, 53 Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 211-252 (2014).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Anna Su, Judging Religious Sincerity, (August 21, 2015).
• Ruth Colker, Religious Accommodations for County Clerks?, (Ohio State Law Journal Furthermore, Vol. 76, 2015).
• Robert A. Katz, Indiana’s Flawed Religious Freedom Law, (49 Indiana L. Rev 37 (2015)).
• Mary Leary, Religion and Human Trafficking, (CUA Columbus School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-8).
• Michael Harper, Distinguishing Disparate Treatment from Disparate Impact; Confusion on the Court, (Boston University Law Review, Vol. 96, 2016, Forthcoming).
• Joseph Benjamin Landau, Roberts, Kennedy, and the Subtle Differences that Matter in Obergefell, (Fordham Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 101, 2015).
• Clare Huntington, Obergefell's Conservatism: Reifying Familial Fronts, (Fordham Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 23, 2015).
• Elizabeth B. Cooper, The Power of Dignity, (Fordham Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 3, 2015).
• R. A. Lenhardt, Marriage as Black Citizenship?, (Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 66, No. 101, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• Joshua D. Hawley, Return to Political Theology, 90 Notre Dame Law Review 1631-1662 (2015).
• Mark Strasser, The Protection of Conscience: On ACA, RFRA and Free Exercise Guarantees, [Abstract], 82 Tennessee Law Review 345-404 (2015).
• Jessica L. Waters & Leandra N. Carrasco, Untangling the Reproductive Rights and Religious Liberty Knot, [Abstract], 26 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 217-241 (2014).

Recent Books:

• Samuel Moyn, Christian Human Rights, (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Sept. 2015), reviewed at Mirror of Justice.
• Mark A. Smith, Secular Faith: How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics, (Univ. of Chicago Press, Sept. 2015).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jean L. Cohen, Freedom of Religion, Inc.: Whose Sovereignty?, (October 19, 2015).
• Jean L. Cohen, Pluralism, Group Rights, and Corporate Religion: Reply to Critics, (Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 2015 (44) 3).
• Carlos A. Ball, Sexuality, Third-Party Harms, and the 'Live-and-Let-Live' Approach to Religious Exemptions, (Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Forthcoming).
• Jessica M. Silbey, Picturing Moral Arguments in a Fraught Legal Arena: Fetuses, Photographic Phantoms and Ultrasounds, (Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2015).
• Serena Mayeri, Marital Supremacy and the Constitution of the Nonmarital Family, (California Law Review, Vol. 103, p. 1277, 2015).

From SSRN (Non-U.S. Law)

• Melissa Crouch, Negotiating Legal Pluralism in Court: Fatwa and the Crime of Blasphemy in Indonesia, (Gary Bell and Michael Dowdle (eds) Festschrift in Honour of MB Hooker. Singapore: ISEAS, Forthcoming).
• Virgemarie A. Salazar, The Caliphate in the Era of Nation-States, (October 7, 2014).
• Andrew F. March, Islamic Philosophy (Falsafa) and Law, (The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law, eds., Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed (Forthcoming)).
• Tim Cunningham, Monitoring Equality - Reflexive Regulation, Planning Systems, and the Role of Equality Law: Lessons from Northern Ireland, (The Equal Rights Review, Vol. Fourteen, (2015)).
• Ifran Hossain Mollah, Hindu Women's Right to Property at the Crossroads: The Tension between Human Rights and Cultural Relativism, (Journal of Society and Change Volume VIII, No. IV, 1915).
• Mauro Gatti, Blasphemy in European Law, ( In M. Díez Bosch and J. Sànchez Torrents (eds), On Blasphemy (Blanquerna, 2015), pp. 49-64).
• Catherine J. Iorns Magallanes, Maori Cultural Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand: Protecting the Cosmology that Protects the Environment, (21:2 Widener Law Review 273-327, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• Eric Apar, The Perils of Doubt: Happiness, Epistemological Certainty, and Free Exercise Rights, 49 Valparaiso University Law Review 155-199 (2014).
• Angela C. Carmella, After Hobby Lobby: The "Religious For-Profit" and the Limits of the Autonomy Doctrine. 80 Missouri Law Review 381-449 (2015).
• Henry L. Chambers Jr., The Problems Inherent In Litigating Employer Free Exercise Rights, 86 University of Colorado Law Review 1141-1171 (2015).
• Donald H.J. Hermann, Defending the Public Good and Traditional Society: Non-Scriptural Religious Objections to Same-Sex Marriage, 49 Valparaiso University Law Review 1-37 (2014).
• Audra L. Savage, Turning the Other Cheek: The Persecution of the Christian Minority, 26 Florida Journal of International Law 373-397 (2014).

Recent Books:

• Stephen Monsma & Stanley Carlson-Thies, Free To Serve: Protecting the Religious Freedom of Faith Based Organizations, (Brazos Press, Oct. 2015).
• Jonathan Sacks, Not In God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence,  (Schocken, Oct. 2015), reviewed by Deseret News.

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Travis Gasper, A Religious Right to Discriminate: Hobby Lobby and 'Religious Freedom' as a Threat to the LGBT Community, (Texas A&M Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Gila Stopler,The Challenge of Strong Religion in the Liberal State, (32(2) Boston University International Law Journal 411-448 (2014)).
• Joel Harrison & Patrick Parkinson, Freedom Beyond the Commons: Managing the Tension between Faith and Equality in a Multicultural Society, ((2014) 40 Monash University Law Review 413).
• Joel Harrison, Debating Rights and Same-Gender Relationships, (October 12, 2015).
• Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, Equality and Singapore's First Constitutional Challenges to the Criminalization of Male Homosexual Conduct, (Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law, vol 16(1-2), pp 150-185 (2015)).
• Stephen F. Befort & Michael Vargas, Same-Sex Marriage and Title VII, (Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 56, 2015).
• Virgemarie A. Salazar, Islamic Perspectives on Democracy, (December 3, 2014).
• Jennifer Ann Urban, Islamic Financing - A Successful Takeoff or a Crash Landing? Whether or Not Islamic Financing Should Be Used to Finance and Lease Aircraft, (2015).
• Virgemarie A. Salazar, Theocracy in Iran: From an Ideology to an Islamic Republic, (February 1, 2014).

From SmartCILP:

• Isabelle R. Gunning, Lawyers of All Faiths: Constructing Professional Identity and Finding Common Ground, [Abstract], 39 Journal of the Legal Profession 231-272 (2015).
• Sr. Helen PreJean, Letter To a Law Student, Dear Young Person, 8 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 151-160 (2015).

Recent Books:

• John  Witte, Jr., The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy, (Cambridge Univ. Press, May 2015).
• Robin Griffith-Jones & Mark Hill (eds.), Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law, (Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2015).
• John Slight, The British Empire and the Hajj 1865-1956, (Harvard Univ. Press, Sept. 2015).
• John L. Esposito, Tamara Sonn & John O. Voll, Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring, (Oxford Univ. Press, Nov. 2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Anthony Michael Kreis, Marriage Demosprudence, (University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Jeff Berryman, Intersections of Canadian Common Law Doctrine and the New Multiculturalism, (March 1, 2014).
• Richard W. Garnett, The Freedom of the Church: (Toward) an Exposition, Translation, and Defense, (Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flands, and Zoe Robinson, eds., The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty (Oxford University Press, 2015), Forthcoming).
• Ram Rivlin, Religious Norms between Ethics and Law: The Death and Afterlife of Jewish Divorce Law, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 2015, Forthcoming).
• Gila Stopler, Biopolitics and Reproductive Justice: Fertility Policies between Women's Rights and State and Community Interests, (18(2) University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, 169-207 (2015)).
• Greg Taylor, Austria's Law Against Defamation of Religion: A Case Study, (Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2015).
• Ruth Lapidoth, Jerusalem and the Peace Process, (October 7, 2015).
• Patrick Parkinson, Can Marriage Survive Secularization?, (University of Illinois Law Review, 2015, Forthcoming).
• Catherine Powell, Up from Marriage: Freedom, Solitude, and Individual Autonomy in the Shadow of Marriage Equality, (84 Fordham Law Review 69 (2015)).

From SmartCILP:

• David L. Faigman, Where Law and Science (and Religion?) Meet, 93 Texas Law Review 1659-1679 (2015).
• Mark Strasser, Old Wine, Old Bottles, and Not Very New Corks: On State RFRAs and Free Exercise Jurisprudence, 34 St. Louis University Public Law Review 335-366 (2015).
• Allan W. Vestal, The Lingering Bigotry of State Constitution Religious Tests, 15 University of Maryland Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class 55-120 (2015).
• John Witte, Jr., Why Two In One Flesh? The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy, 64 Emory Law Journal 1675-1746 (2015).
• Symposium. Religious Accommodation in the Age of Civil Rights. Foreword by Martha Minow; articles by Mary Anne Case, Richard W. Garnett, Malick W. Ghachem, Michael A. Helfand, John D. Inazu, Andrew Koppelman, Melissa Murray, Steven D. Smith and Nomi Maya Stolzenberg. 88 Southern California Law Review 453-767 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jennifer Lee Koh, Agape, Grace, and Immigration Law: An Evangelical Perspective, (September 26, 2015).
• John Copeland Nagle, Pope Francis, Environmental Anthropologist, (Regent University Law Review, Vol. 28, 2016, Forthcoming).
• Shawn Rajanayagam & Carolyn M. Evans, Corporations and Freedom of Religion: Australia and the United States Compared, (Sydney Law Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2015).
• Mirjam Künkler & Hanna Lerner, A Private Matter? Religious Education and Democracy in Indonesia and Israel, (British Journal of Religious Education, Forthcoming).
• Helen M. Alvare, The Opposite of Anarchy and the Transmission of Faith: The Freedom to Teach after Smith, Hosanna Tabor, Obergefell and the Ascendancy of Sexual Expressionism, (San Diego Law Review, Forthcoming 2015).
• Helen M. Alvare, Religious Freedom versus Sexual Expression: A Guide, (Journal of Law and Religion, 2015, Forthcoming).
• Chiara Cosentino, Safe and Legal Abortion: An Emerging Human Right? The Long-Lasting Dispute with State Sovereignty in ECHR Jurisprudence, (Human Rights Law Review (2015) 15 (3): 569-589).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Bernard Kenneth Freamon, ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Human Right to Freedom from Slavery Under Islamic Law, (Fordham International Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Haider Ala Hamoudi, Sex and the Shari’a: Defining Gender Norms and Sexual Deviancy in Shi’i Islam, (Fordham International Law Journal, Vol. 39, 2015).
• Federica Sona, Overcoming Obstacles Through Hidden Nuptial Paths: Foreign Muslim Purported Spouses Marrying in Italy, (Review of Social Studies (RoSS), Vol.2, No.1, Spring 2015, pp.25-53).

From SSRN (Same-Sex Marriage):

• Helen M. Alvare, Marriage and Family as the New Property: Obergefell, Marriage and the Hand of the State, (Regent University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• S. Ernie Walton, Conservatives Should Attack Obergefell's Interpretive Method, Not Its Hijacking of the Democratic Process, (September 25, 2015).
• Ethan J. Leib, Hail Marriage and Farewell, (Fordham Law Review, Vol. 84, 2015).
• Keith Cunningham-Parmeter, Marriage Equality, Workplace Inequality: The Next Gay Rights Battle, (Florida Law Review, Vol. 67, 2015).
• Fichera, Massimo, ‘Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits’ Same-Sex Marriage and the Role of Transnational Law: Changes in the European Landscape, (Helsinki Legal Studies Research Paper No. 39, Sept. 2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Meital Pinto, The Absence of the Right to Culture of Minorities Within Minorities in Israel: A Tale of a Cultural Dissent Case, (4 Laws 579–601 (2015)).
• Janne Elisabeth Nijman, Grotius’ Imago Dei Anthropology: Grounding Ius Naturae et Gentium, (Martti Koskenniemi, Monica García-Salmones, and Paolo Amoroso (Eds.), International law and Religion (Forthcoming)).
• Eric Heinze, Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship, (in Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship, Oxford University Press, February 2016).
• Darryl Li, Jihad in a World of Sovereigns: Law, Violence, and Islam in the Bosnia Crisis, (Law and Social Inquiry, 2015).
• Christopher R. Hoyt, Income Tax Deductions for Charitable Bequests of IRD, (September 24, 2015).

From SSRN (Same-Sex Marriage):

• James M. Donovan, Half-Baked: The Demand by For-Profit Businesses for Religious Exemptions from Selling to Same-Sex Couples, (Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 49, 2015).
• Patrick Talbot, Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty Clashes in the U.S., After Obergefell v. Hodges: (An American Constitutional Challenge), (Anthology on Religious Freedom by Center of Ethics and Socio-Religiosity Studies Petra Christian University (PCU), Forthcoming).
• Anthony C. Infanti, Victims of Our Own Success: The Perils of Obergefell and Windsor, (Ohio State Law Journal Furthermore, Forthcoming).
• Peter Nicolas, Obergefell's Squandered Potential, (California Law Review Circuit, 2015 Forthcoming).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Amélie Barras & Dia Dabby, Only Skin Deep? Revising the Secular Narrative Through Circumcision, (Heather Shipley (ed.), Globalized Religion and Sexual Identity: Contexts, Contestations, Voices (Brill Academic Publishing, 2014), 86-106).
• Ifzal Mehmood, Siddiq Ali Chishti & Muhammad Hassan, Right of Women to Divorce: Adjudication of Redemption (Khul‘) in Islamic Law and Pakistani Law, a Critical Analysis of the Orthodox Islamic Scholars and Recommendations of Pakistani Courts on the Basis of Legal Opinion (Ijtihad), (Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 2015).
• Kathryn Chan, The Advancement of Religion as a Charitable Purpose in an Age of Religious Neutrality, (September 12, 2015).
• Lynne Marie Kohm, The Unspoken Consequences of Obergefell: Calling Convictional Christian Scholars, (September 15, 2015).
• Steve Sanders, RFRAs and Reasonableness, (Indiana Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Kellen R. Funk, Shall These Bones Live? Property, Pluralism, and the Constitution of Evangelical Reform, (Law and Social Inquiry, Forthcoming).
• Kari E. Hong, Obergefell's Sword: The Liberal State Interest in Marriage, (University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Sonu Bedi, The Horizontal Effect of a Right to Non-Discrimination in Employment: Religious Autonomy Under the U.S. Constiution and the Constitution of South Africa, 95 Boston University Law Review 1181-1204 (2015).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson, Bargaining for Civil Rights: Lessons From Mrs. Murphy for Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights, 95 Boston University Law Review 951-993 (2015).
• Michelle Kundmueller, The Devil Is In All the Details (Not Just In Georgia), [LEXIS link], 13 First Amendment Law Review 221-261 (2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Deepa Das Acevedo, Divine Sovereignty, Indian Property Law, and the Dispute Over the Padmanabhaswamy Temple, (Modern Asian Studies, 2016).
• Giancarlo Anello, The Islamic Religion in the 'Architecture' of the 2014 Egyptian Constitution, ( Diritto & Questioni pubbliche, Forthcoming (2015)).
• Daniel Augenstein, Freedom of Religion and the Politics of the Liberal Public-Private Divide, (44(1) Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy (2015) 8-23).
• J. Patrick Dobel, Ethics: Holy Evil and Theocracy, (Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Third Edition 2015 by Taylor & Francis).
• Frederick Mark Gedicks, 'Substantial' Burdens, (BYU Law Research Paper No. 15‐18, Sept. 2015).
• Eleni Polymenopoulou, A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Earth: Artistic Freedom, Cultural Heritage and Islamic Extremism, (Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Volume 17, Fall 2015).
• John W. Ragsdale, Sacred in the City: The Huron Indian Cemetery and the Preservation Laws, (August 20, 2015).
• Nancy J. Knauer, Religious Exemptions, Marriage Equality, and the Establishment of Religion, (University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 1, 2015 Forthcoming).
• Peter Nicolas, Fundamental Rights in a Post-Obergefell World, (Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, Forthcoming.
• Burlette Carter, Brief of Amici Curiae Professor W. Burlette Carter in Support of Neither Party: Obergefell v. Hodges; Deboer v. Snyder; Tango v. Haslam; Bourke v. Beshear,  (GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2015-32).

From SmartCILP:

• Neil S. Siegel & Reva B. Siegel, Compelling Interests and Contraception, 47 Connecticut Law Review 1025-1043 (2015).

Note also that the various publications listed under "Journals" in the Religion Clause sidebar continue to publish regularly.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Antony Barone Kolenc, Not 'For God and Country': Atheist Military Chaplains and the Free Exercise Clause, (48 U.S.F. L. Rev. 395 (2014)).
• James M. Oleske, Doric Columns Are Not Falling: Wedding Cakes, the Ministerial Exception, and the Public-Private Distinction, (Maryland Law Review, Vol. 75, 2015, Forthcoming).
• Erwin Chemerinsky & Michele Goodwin, Religion Is Not a Basis for Harming Others, (Georgetown Law Journal, 2015/16, Forthcoming).
• Chad G. Marzen & William Woodyard, Catholic Social Teaching, the Right to Immigrate, and the Right to Regulate Borders: A Proposed Solution for Comprehensive Immigration Reform Based Upon Catholic Social Principles, (September 3, 2015).
• Steven J. Heyman, A Struggle for Recognition: the Controversy Over Religious Liberty, Civil Rights, and Same-Sex Marriage, (First Amendment Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Robert A. Kahn, Rethinking the Context of Hate Speech (Book Review: Michael Herz & Peter Molnar, The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Regulation and Responses), (First Amendment Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Isam M. Shihada,The Backlash of 9/11 on Muslims in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, (International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (2015)).
• Angela Riley & Kristen A. Carpenter, Owning Red: A Theory of Indian (Cultural) Appropriation, (Forthcoming Texas Law Review (2016)).

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

• Paul Andrew Gwaza & Yusuph Moses Garba, Promoting Ethnic and Religious Harmony in Nigeria through Fidelity to Human Rights Principles, (August 30, 2015).
• Bernard M. Levinson, 'Better that You Should Not Vow than that You Vow and Not Fulfill': Qoheleth's Use of Textual Allusion and the Transformation of Deuteronomy's Law of Vows, (in Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually. Edited by Katharine Dell and Will Kynes. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 587. London: T&T Clark, Pages 28–41, 2014).
• Patrick McKinley Brennan, An Essay on Christian Constitutionalism: Building in the Divine Style, for the Common Good(s), (Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Forthcoming).
• Aleksandra Lis & and Tomasz Pietrzykowski, Animals as Objects of Ritual Slaughter: Polish Law after the Battle Over Exceptionless Mandatory Stunning,(August 29, 2015).
• Peter Oliver, Companies and Their Fundamental Rights: A Comparative Perspective, (64 International and Comparative Law Quarterly, pp 661-696, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• Symposium: From the Magna Carta to the Montgomery March: The Career of Rights in the Anglo-American Legal Tradition. Articles by Winston P. Nagan, Bradley W. Miller, James R. Stoner, Jr., Adam J. MacLeod, Dwight G. Duncan, David VanDrunen and Michael J. DeBoer. 6 Faulkner Law Review 1-196 (2014).
• Symposium: Pursuit of Happiness in Interreligious Perspective. Articles by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Matthieu Ricard, Ch-Rab Jonathan Sacks, Michael J. Broyde, The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Luke Timothy Johnson, Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Khaled Abou El Fadl; response by Vincent J. Cornell. 29 Journal of Law & Religion 5-123 (2014).