Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Frederick Mark Gedicks, Public, Private, Religious? Religious Freedom Restoration Acts in the U.S. States, (Quaderni Costituzionali, No. 3 (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2015 Forthcoming).
• Alagi Yorro Jallow, Freedom of Expression and Human Rights in Islamic Perspective, (August 15, 2015).
• Colin A. Devine, A Critique of the Secular Exceptions Approach to Religious Exemptions, (UCLA Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 1348, 2015).
• Tom Hickey, Judges as God's Philosophers: Re-Thinking 'Principle' in Constitutional Adjudication, (in L. Cahillane, J. Gallen and T. Hickey (eds), Judges, Politics and the Irish Constitution (Manchester University Press, 2016).
• Asifa Quraishi-Landes, The Sharia Problem with Sharia Legislation, (Ohio North University Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 545, 2015).
• Leonore Carpenter & David S. Cohen, A Union Unlike Any Other: Obergefell and the Doctrine of Marital Superiority, (August 28, 2015).
• Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, Vaccines, School Mandates, and California's Right to Education, (August 21, 2015).
• Jack B. Harrison, At Long Last Marriage, (American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• Christopher Ogolla, Public Health Implication of Religious Exemptions: A Balance Between Public Safety and Personal Choice, or Religion Gone Too Far?, 25 Health Matrix 257-307 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Thomas C. Berg, Agape, Gift, and Intellectual Property, (U of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-19 (2015)).
• Russell Powell, Does Shari'a Play a Role in Turkey?, (Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 41, No. Special Issue, 2014).
• Robin L. West, Hobby Lobby, Birth Control and Our Ongoing Cultural Wars: Pleasure and Desire in the Crossfires, (2015).
• Cheryl L. Daytec, Till the Judge Do Them Part: The Prospect of Absolute Divorce in the Philippines, (August 19, 2015).
• Shai Stern, When One's Right to Marry Makes Others 'Unmerry', (Albany Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Alan E. Garfield, And the Wall Comes Tumbling Down: How the Supreme Court Is Striking the Wrong Balance between Majority and Minority Rights in Church and State Cases, Arkansas Law Review, Forthcoming.
• Mark Rahdert, Exceptionalism Unbound: Appraising American Resistance to Foreign Law, (Catholic University Law Review, (Forthcoming)).
• Tessa McKeown, Hate Speech and Holocaust Denial: The Prohibition of False Historical Discourse in Modern Society, (2014).
• Kit Kinports, The Supreme Court's Quiet Expansion of the Qualified Immunity Defense, (Minnesota Law Review Headnotes, Forthcoming).
• Rebecca Eaton, The Legitimacy of Spectral Evidence During the Salem Witchcraft Trials, (2013).

From SmartCILP:

• Winston Bowman, A Civil Death: Mormon Disenfranchisement in the Inter-Mountain West, 27 Western Legal History 1-29 (2014).
• Inna Nam Brady, Religious Freedom in Kazakhstan: Facing the Kazakhstani Law on Religious Activities and Religious Associations, 1 Journal of Global Justice & Public Policy 227-246 (2015).
• Joshua Neoh, The Name of God On Trial: Narratives of Law, Religion and State in Malaysia, 18 Law Text Culture 198-220 (2014).
• Tilhamer Toth,, Is There a Vatican School for Competition Policy?, 46 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 583-616 (2015).
• James M. Oleske, Jr., The Evolution of Accommodation: Comparing the Unequal Treatment of Religious Objections to Interracial and Same-Sex Marriages, 50 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 99-152 (2015).
• Sahar F Aziz, Coercive Assimilationism: The Perils of Muslim Women's Identity Performance in the Workplace, 20 Michigan Journal of  Race & Law 1-64 (2014). 

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• James G. Hodge, Respecting Religious Freedoms and Protecting the Public's Health, (Public Health Reports, Vol. 130, September-October 2015).
• Gad Barzilai, Analysis of Israelis (Jews and Arab-Palestinians) Exploring Law in Society and Society in Law, (International Journal of Law in Context / Volume 11 / Issue 03 / September 2015, pp 361 - 378).
•  Obinuchi Chimezule, Right to Die (Euthanasia) in Nigeria, (July 31, 2015).
• B. Jessie Hill, Change, Dissent, and the Problem of Consent in Religious Organizations, (The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty, Chad Flanders, Zoë Robinson & Micah Schwartzman eds., Oxford University Press, 2015, Forthcoming).
• Hershey H. Friedman, Destruction of the Second Temple: Lessons for Today's Leaders, (August 11, 2015).
• Jeremy Menchik, Productive Intolerance: Godly Nationalism in Indonesia, (Comparative Studies in Society and History, July 2014).
• Adam Lamparello, Obergefell v. Hodges: How the Supreme Court Should Have Ruled, (August 12, 2015).
• Phoebe E. Arde-Acquah, Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto: Balancing Civil Liberties and Public Health Interventions in Modern Vaccination Policy, (Washington University Jurisprudence Review, Vol. 7, p. 337, 2015).
• Jeremy Menchik, The Co-Evolution of Sacred and Secular: Islamic Law and Family Planning in Indonesia, (South East Asia Research, 22, 3, pp 359-378, 2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Rex Ahdar, A Real Threat or a Mere Shadow? School Chaplaincy Programs and the Secular State, (University of Queensland Law Journal, vol 33. no 1 (2014): 29-41).
• Joshua C. Tate, Episcopal Power and Royal Jurisdiction in Angevin England, (Studies in Canon Law and Common Law in Honor of R.H. Helmholz, Robbins Collection Studies in Comparative Legal History (Troy L. Harris ed., 2015), pp. 15-26).
• Jayanth K. Krishnan & Patrick W. Thomas, Surveying Key Aspects of Sociolegal Scholarship on India: An Overview, (Annual Review of Law and Social Science (2015, Forthcoming)).
• Christopher Tomlins, Debt, Death, and Redemption: Toward a Soterial-Legal History of the Turner Rebellion, (David S. Cowan and Dan Wincott, editors, Exploring the Legal in Socio-Legal Studies (London: Palgrave-Macmillan), January 2016, Forthcoming).
• Erwin Chemerinsky & Michele Goodwin, Compulsory Vaccination Laws are Constitutional, (Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 110, 2015/16 Forthcoming).
• Christopher C. Lund, Leaving Disestablishment to the Political Process, (Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, Vol. 10, p. 45, 2014).
• Sarah Beth D'Alessandro, Commerce in Human Organs: A Study of Jewish Legal Themes Underlying a Contemporary Controversy, (August 5, 2015).
• Daniel Golebiewski, Roman Catholic Traditions and LGBT Rights in Poland and France, (Rights for All? Sexual Orientation, Religious Traditions, and the Challenge of Inclusion The Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College, February 2015).
• Hillel Y. Levin, Allan J. Jacobs & Kavita Arora, To Accommodate or Not to Accommodate: (When) Should the State Regulate Religion to Protect the Rights of Children and Third Parties?, (UGA Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-24 (Aug. 2015)).

From SSRN (Marriage):

• Robin Fretwell Wilson & Anthony Michael Kreis, Embracing Compromise: Marriage Equality and Religious Liberty in the Political Process, (Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Vol. 15, No. 485, 2014).
• Doron M. Kalir, Same-Sex Marriage and Jewish Law: Time for a New Paradigm? (Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 15-284, Aug. 2015).
• Toni M. Massaro, The Lawfulness of the Same-Sex Marriage Decisions: Charles Black on Obergefell, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 15-27 (July 2015).

From SSRN (Islam):

• Arolda Elbasani & Olivier Roy, Islam in the Post-Communist Balkans: Alternative Pathways to God, (Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Online First, Forthcoming).
• Arolda Elbasani, Islam and Democracy at the Fringes of Europe: The Role of Useful Historical Legacies, (Politics and Religion 8 (2), 334-357, 2015).
• J. Robert Brown, Secularism, Sharia, and the Turkish Financial Markets, (Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2015).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Dallan F. Flake, Bearing Burdens: Religious Accommodations that Adversely Affect Coworker Morale, 76 Ohio State Law Journal 169-216 (2015).
• Leslie C. Griffin, Hobby Lobby: The Crafty Case that Threatens Women's Rights and Religious Freedom, [Abstract], 42 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 641-693 (2015).
• Eric Rassbach, Is Hobby Lobby Really a Brave New World? Litigation Truths About Religious Exercise by For-Profit Organizations, [Abstract], 42 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 625-639 (2015).
• Gerald Walpin, Five Justices Have Transformed the First Amendment's Freedom of Religion to Freedom from Religion, 31 Touro Law Review 187-220 (2015).
• Richard W. Garnett, John D. Inazu & Michael W. McConnell, How to Protect Endangered Religious Groups You Admire, Christianity Today, (Aug. 4, 2015).
• Dodd-Frank, the Financial Crisis, and a Christian View of Financial Markets. Articles by Paul J. Foley, Tory L. Lucas and student Joshua C. Dawson; abstract by Rodney Chrisman; note by Kaitlyn E. Evans. 9 Liberty University Law Review 445-595 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Armin Steinbach, Burqas and Bans: The Wearing of Religious Symbols Under the European Convention of Human Rights, (Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2015).
• Kenneth Einar Himma, Why Religious Freedom Does Not Warrant Protection by a Special Right, ( Kenneth Einar Himma, Miodrag Jovanović, and Bojan Spaic (eds.), Fundamental Rights: Justification and Interpretation (The Hague: Eleven International Publishing) 2015, Forthcoming).
• Sarah Barringer Gordon, The African Supplement: Religion, Race, and Corporate Law in Early National America, (William & Mary Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 3, Pg. 385, 2015).
• Howard M. Wasserman, Crazy in Alabama: Judicial Process and the Last Stand Against Marriage Equality in the Land of George Wallace, (Northwestern University Law Review Online, Vol. 110, p. 201, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Religion and Public Reason in the Politics of Biotechnology, 29 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 423-452 (2015).
• Symposium. The Scholarship and Teaching of Jack Sammons. Remarks by Timothy W. Floyd, Daisy Hurst Floyd, Harold S. Lewis, Jr. and Jack L. Sammons; articles by Gary J. Simson, Timothy W. Floyd, James Boyd White, Joseph Vining, Eugene Garver, Robert Audi, Richard Dawson, Linda H. Edwards, David T. Ritchie, Linda L. Berger, Mark L. Jones and Patrick Emery Longan. 66 Mercer Law Review 265-555 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• John R. Morss, The International Legal Status of the Vatican/Holy See Complex, (Forthcoming, European Journal of International Law).
• Rex Ahdar, Solemnisation of Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom, (Ecclesiastical Law Journal / Volume 16 / Issue 03 / September 2014, pp 283 - 305).
• Richard Moon, Conscientious Objections by Civil Servants: The Case of Marriage Commissioners and Same Sex Civil Marriages, (June 30, 2015).
• Stephen D, Sugarman, Is It Unconstitutional to Prohibit Faith-Based Schools from Becoming Charter Schools?, (July 21, 2015).
• Geoffrey Brahm Levey, Secularism as Proto-Multiculturalism: The Case of Australia, (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2015/56, July 2015).
• Nadia N. Sawicki, Mandating Disclosure of Religious Limitations on Medical Practice, (Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-016 (July 2015)).
• Harlan Grant Cohen, Zivotofsky II's Two Visions for Foreign Relations Law, (109 AJIL Unbound 10 (2015)).
• C. Christine Fair, Sharia, Piety and Maslak: Support for Sectarian Violence in Pakistan, (July 20, 2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Michael I. Meyerson, The Original Meaning of 'God': Using the Language of the Framing Generation to Create a Coherent Establishment Clause Jurisprudence, (Marquette Law Review, Vol. 98, No. 3, Spring 2015, pp. 1035-1102).
• Oliver Le Bot, Limitation of Animal Protection for Religious and Cultural Reasons, (July 14, 2014).
• Tariq Modood, Multiculturalism and Moderate Secularism, (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2015/47, July 2015).
• Marc Greendorfer, Final Affordable Care Act Regulations, (July 14, 2015).
• Dallan F. Flake, After Abercrombie: Religious Discrimination Based on Employer Misperception, (July 16, 2015).
• Eli Wald, The Jewish Law Firm: Past and Present, (Jews in the Legal Profession, 65-124, Marc Galanter, et al eds., New Orleans: Quid Pro Press, 2014).
• Douglas NeJaime, Marriage Equality and the New Parenthood, (Harvard Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Arolda Elbasani, The Revival of Islam in the Post-Communist Balkans: Coercive Nationalisms and New Pathways to God, (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2015/28, April 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• Hon. Deborah Sweet Eylar, The Early Female Jewish Members of the Maryland Bar: 1920-1929, 74 Maryland Law Review 545-582 (2015).
• Bruce Friedrich, The Church of Animal Liberation: Animal Rights as 'Religion' Under the Free Exercise Clause, 21 Animal Law 65-119 (2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Rhona Schuz, The Dangers of Children’s Rights’ Discourse in the Political Arena: The Issue of Religious Male Circumcision as a Test Case, (Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender Vol. 21:347, 2015).
• Rivka Weill, The Power of Understatement in Judicial Decisions, (Annuaire international de justice constitutionnelle (2015, Forthcoming)).
• Kerstin Steiner, Governing Islam: The State, the Administration of Muslim Law Act (AMLA) and Islam in Singapore, (Australian Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 16, No. 1, article 6, 2015).
• Jodok Troy, The Catholic Church and International Relations, (Oxford Handbooks Online, Forthcoming).
• Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, Limits on State Regulation of Religious Organizations: Where We Are and Where We Are Going, (Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1521, July 2015).
• Adam J. Fenton & David Price, Breaking ISIS: Indonesia's Legal Position on the 'Foreign Terrorist Fighters' Threat, (Australian Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 16, No. 1, Article 2, 2015).
• Jeremy K. Kessler, A War for Liberty: On the Law of Conscientious Objection, (The Cambridge History of World War II, Vol. 3 (Michael Geyer & Adam Tooze eds. 2015).

From SSRN (European law):

• Jonathan Rose, Clergy and the Abuse of Legal Procedure in Medieval England, (July 4, 2015).
• Nicole Martin, Are British Muslims Alienated from Mainstream Politics by Islamophobia And British Foreign Policy?, (July 1, 2015).
• Myriam Hunter-Henin, Living Together in an Age of Religious Diversity: Lessons from Baby Loup and SAS, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 2015, 1-25.
• Myriam Hunter-Henin, Religion, Children and Employment: The Baby Loup Case, (International Comparative Law Quarterly, July 2015).

From SSRN (Marriage):

• Joshua White, Here Comes the Groom...(s)?. (June 19, 2015).
• Charles R. Calleros, Marriage Equality on the Arc of Civil Rights History: A Broad Historical Narrative, (Michigan State Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Catherine E. Smith, Lauren Fontana, Susannah William Pollvogt & Tanya Washington, Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of the Constitutional Rights of Children in Support of Petitioners in Obergefell v. Hodges, (March 9, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• Mahmood Chandia & Kartina A. Choong, The Conflation of Ethnicity and Religion in Malaysia: A Reflection, [Abstract], 23 Cardozo Journal of International & Comparative Law 353-376 (2015).
• Umar F. Moghul &Samir H.K. Safar-Aly,  Green Sukuk: The Introduction of Islam's Environmental Ethics to Contemporary Islamic Finance, 27 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 1-60 (2014).
• Intisar A. Rabb, "Reasonable Doubt" in Islamic Law, 40 Yale Journal of International Law 41-94 (2015).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Randall Lesaffer, The Nature and Sources of Europe's Classical Law of Nations,(June 25, 2015).
• Asim Jusic, Actionable Pluralism and Toleration in Religiously Diverse Societies: For Whom and for What?, (CEDAR Occasional Paper No.7, 2014).
• Matthew S. Erie, Muslim Mandarins in Chinese Courts: Dispute Resolution, Islamic Law, and the Secular State in Northwest China, (Law and Social Inquiry, Forthcoming).
• Dr. Harunrashid Kadri, Rights of Muslim Woman with Special Reference to Matrimonial Causes - A Human Rights Perspective, (Fiat Justicia, Volume No.: 3, April, 2015).
• Jennifer Carr, Complicity and Collection: Religious Freedom and Tax, (University of St. Thomas Law Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 183, Spring 2014).
• Robert D. Goldstein, The Structural Wall of Separation and the Erroneous Claim of Anti-Catholic Discrimination, (13 Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal 173 (2014)).
• Ronnie Lippens, Escape from Evil? Notes on Capacity, Tragedy, Coding and Non-Destructive Immortality Projects, (Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2015).

From SSRN (Same-sex marriage):

• Michael J. Perry, Obergefell v. Hodges: An Imagined Opinion, Concurring in the Judgment, (Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-356 (June 27, 2015)).
• Adam Lamparello, Justice Kennedy's Decision in Obergefell: A Sad Day for the Judiciary, (July 2, 2015).
• Susannah William Pollvogt,  Obergefell v. Hodges: Framing Fundamental Rights, (June 29, 2015).

New Books:

• Kevin Vallier, Liberal Politics and Public Faith--Beyond Separation,  (Routledge, June 2014), (podcast with author).
• Anthony M. Petro, After the Wrath of God-- AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion, (Oxford Univ. Press, July 2015).
• Jean L. Cohen and Cécile Laborde (eds.), Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy, (Columbia University Press, Jam. 2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Rosalie Jukier & Jose Woehrling, Religion and the Secular State in Canada, (Javier Martinez-Torron, W. Cole Durham, Jr., (General Reporters), Donlu D. Thayer, ed, (June 18, 2015)).
• Matome M. Ratiba, 'Just Piles of Rocks to Developers But Places of Worship to Native Americans' - Exploring the Significance of Earth Jurisprudence for South African Cultural Communities, (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2015).
• Milan Markovic, Of Monsters and Lawyers, (Criminal Justice Ethics (Forthcoming)),
• Michael A. Helfand, Introduction to Negotiating State and Non-State Law: The Challenge of Global and Local Legal Pluralism, (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• Julia L. Ernst, Making the Case for Antiestablishmentarianism: The Church and State in Norway, 38 Fordham International Law Journal 543-594 (2015).
• David M. Mednicoff, A Tale of Three Constitutions: Common Drives and Diverse Outcomes in Post-2010 Arab Legal Politics, [Absstract], 28 Temple International & Comparative Law Journal 215-251 (2014)

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Christine A. Corcos, Seeing it Coming Since 1945: State Bans and Regulations of 'Crafty Sciences' Speech and Activity, (37 T. Jefferson L. Rev. 39 (2014)).
• Milad Haghani, Iran Denies Education Rights to Bahá’ís, (Western Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2014).
• Tipu Salman Makhdoom, Can Legal Fiction Overcome Religious And Constitutional Locks? Death Penalty: A Pakistani Perspective, (July 1, 2014).
• Vito Breda, Over the Secular Ridge of Human Wants: The Constitutional Legitimacy of Secular-State Funding of Religious Education in Australia and Europe, (June 16, 2015).
• Patrick Talbot, Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty Clashes in the U.S.: (An American Constitutional Challenge), (Anthology on Religious Freedom by Center of Ethics and Socio-religiosity Studies Petra Christian Univesity (PCU), Forthcoming).
• Margaret F. Brinig, Two Treatments of Pluralism: Canada and the United States, (Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1517, June 2015).
• Margaret F. Brinig, Religion and Child Custody, (Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1518, June 2015).
• Maura I. Strassberg, Scrutinizing Polygamy: Utah’s Brown v. Buhman and British Columbia’s Reference Re: Section 293, (Emory Law Journal, Vol. 64, p. 1815, 2015).
• Sarah Adams-Schoen, Land Use Law Update: Will Reed v. Town of Gilbert Require Municipalities Throughout the Country to Rewrite Their Sign Codes?, (29 Municipal Law Journal 16 (Winter 2015)).

From SmartCILP:

• Janet R. Decker & Kari A. Carr, Church-State Entanglement at Religiously Affiliated Charter Schools, 2015 Brigham Young University Education & Law Journal 77-105.
• Lucien J. Dhooge, Public Accommodation Statutes and Sexual Orientation: Should There Be a Religious Exemption for Secular Businesses?, 21 William & Mary Journal of Women & the Law 319-378 (2015).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson & Anthony Michael Kreis, Embracing Compromise: Marriage Equality and Religious Liberty in the Political Process, [Abstract], 15 Georgetown Journal of Gender & the Law 485-541 (2014).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Tom Herrenberg, Denouncing Divinity: Blasphemy, Human Rights, and the Struggle of Political Leaders to Defend Freedom of Speech in the Case of Innocence of Muslims, (Ancilla Iuris,(anci.ch) 2015: 1).
• Lucia Ann Silecchia, A Witness First Lives the Life He Proposes: Evangelization and the Catholic Lawyer, (May 21, 2015).
• Kenneth Einar Himma, The Ethics of Subjecting a Child to the Risk of Eternal Torment: A Reply to Shawn Bawulski, (June 10, 2015).
• David B. Schwartz, The NLRA's Religious Exemption in a Post-Hobby Lobby World: Current Status, Future Difficulties, and a Proposed Solution, (30 A.B.A. J. of Lab. and Emp. Law 227 (Winter 2015)).
• Frederick B. Jonassen, 'So Help Me?': Religious Expression and Artifacts in the Oath of Office and the Courtroom Oath, (Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2, Spring 2014).
• Priscilla J. Smith, Contraceptive Comstockery: Reasoning from Immorality to Illness in the Twenty-First Century, (Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 47, No. 4, 2015).
• Danielle Keats Citron, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace - Introduction, (Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, Harvard University Press (2014)).
• Charles R. Calleros, Advocacy for Marriage Equality: The Power of a Broad Historical Narrative During a Transitional Period in Civil Rights, (Forthcoming in 2015, Mich. St. L. Rev. for Symposium on Persuasion in Civil Rights Advocacy).

From elsewhere:

• Symposium: Polygamous Unions? Charting the Contours of Marriage Law's Frontier, 64 Emory Law Journal, Issue 6 (2015).

New Books:

• Anna Su, Exporting Freedom: Religious Liberty and American Power, (Harvard University Press, Jan. 2016).
• Mary Ziegler, After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate, (Harvard University Press, June 2015).
• Jeanette S. Jouili, Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe, (Stanford University Press, 2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Danielle Weatherby, The Arkansas 'Mini-RFRA' is Bad Policy, (May 21, 2015).
• Tipu Salman Makhdoom, Politics of Religion: Ahmadis of Pakistan, (May 23, 2015).
• Jennifer Taub, Is Hobby Lobby a Tool for Limiting Corporate Constitutional Rights?, (Constitutional Commentary, Forthcoming).
• Masua Sagiv, Cultural Bias in Judicial Decision Making, (35(2) Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice 229 (2015)).
• Eric Alan Isaacson, Free Exercise for Whom? -- Could the Religious-Liberty Principle that Catholics Established in Perez v. Sharp Also Protect Same-Sex Couples' Right to Marry?, (University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 1, 2015).
• Surabhi Chopra & Prita Jha, Front Matter for: On Their Watch: Mass Violence and State Apathy in India, (S. Chopra & P. Jha, eds, Three Essays Collective, 2014).
• Sherry F. Colb, Decoding 'Never Again', (Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 16, Spring 2015).
• Susannah William Pollvogt, Cleburne Not Romer: Objective versus Subjective Theories of Animus, (June 5, 2015).
• Joseph William Singer, We Don't Serve Your Kind Here: Public Accommodations and the Mark of Sodom, (Boston University Law Review, Vol. 95, p. 929, 2015).

From SSRN (Religious Law):

• Daniel Pascoe, Is Diya a Form of Clemency?, (Boston University International Law Journal, 2016).
• Levi Cooper, Jewish Law, Hasidic Lore, and Hollywood Legend: The Cantor, the Mystic, and the Jurist, (Critical Analysis of Law 2, no. 2 (Fall 2015)).
• Hershey H. Friedman, ‘Let Justice Pierce the Mountain’: Morality, Ethics, and Law in the Talmud, (June 2, 2015).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Richard Chused, Dream Vignettes, 59 New York Law School Law Review 111-142 (2014/15).
• David A. Grenardo, Improving the Law School Classroom and Experience Through Prayer: An Empirical Study, 13 Ave Maria Law Review 71-120 (2015).
• Lee B. Burgunder, Can the PTO Find Its Way with Jesus?, 19 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 63-97 (2015).
• Rosalie Berger Levinson, Gender Equality vs. Religious Autonomy: Suing Religious Employers for Sexual Harassment After Hosanna-Tabor, 11 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 89-119 (2015).
• Symposium. Religious Accommodation in the Age of Civil Rights. Introduction by Nomi Maya Stolzenberg and Douglas NeJaime; articles by Mark Tushnet, Ira C. Lupu, Thomas C. Berg, Frederick Mark Gedicks, Louise Melling and Elizabeth Sepper. 38 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 1-233 (2015).
• Marta Kolankiewicz, Anti-Muslim Violence and the Possibility of Justice, (2015), (Dissertation from academia.edu)

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Gabor Halmai, Religion and Constitutionalism, (MTA Working Paper No. 2015/05 (May 2015)).
• Elizabeth Pollman, Corporate Law and Theory in Hobby Lobby, (Forthcoming in The Rise of Corporate Religous Liberty (Zoë Robinson, Chad Flanders & Micah Schwartzman, eds., Oxford University Press 2015)).
• Michael John DeBoer, Legislating Morality Progressively -- The Contraceptive Coverage Mandate, Religious Freedom, and Public Health Policy and Ethics, (Journal of Law and Health, Vol. 28, p. 62, 2015).
• Doug Coulson, British Imperialism, the Indian Independence Movement, and the Racial Eligibility Provisions of the Naturalization Act: United States v. Thind Revisited, (Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 7 (2015): 1-42).
• Timothy Zick, First Amendment Cosmopolitanism, Skepticism, and Democracy, (Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 76, No. 3, 2015).
• Margaret M. Blair & Elizabeth Pollman, The Derivative Nature of Corporate Constitutional Rights, (56 William & Mary Law Review 1563 (2015).
• Noel Cox, Justice, Fairness and the Common Law: The Tort of Misfeasance in Public Office, (May 26, 2015).
• Michael J. Perry, On the Constitutionality and Political Morality of Granting Conscience-Protecting Exemptions Only to Religious Believers, (Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 15-356 (May 2015)).
• John D. Inazu, Introduction: Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference, (in J. Inazu, Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference, University of Chicago Press, 2016, Forthcoming).
• Ellen D. Katz, Dignity and Discriminatory Intent: What the Marriage Equality Cases Tell Us About Voter ID, (University of Chicago Legal Forum, Forthcoming).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Steven H. Resnicoff, J. David Bleich: An Intellectual Portrait, (in Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes (eds), J. David Bleich: Where Halakhah and Philsophy Meet (Brill Academic Publishers, Forthcoming).
• Carl H. Esbeck, Third-Party Harms, Congressional Statutes Accommodating Religion, and the Establishment Clause, (University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-10, May 2015).
• Natasha Bakht & Jordan Palmer, Modern Law, Modern Hammers: Canada's Witchcraft Provision as an Image of Persecution, ((2015) 35 Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues 123).
• Eliav Lieblich, Assimilation Through Law: Hans Kelsen and the Jewish Experience, (The Law of Strangers: Critical Perspectives on Jewish Lawyering and International Legal Thought (James Loeffler & Moria Paz eds., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming)).
• Michael Heise, Lost Ground: Catholic Schools, the Future of Urban School Reform, and Empirical Legal Scholarship, (Texas Law Review, Vol. 93, 2015).
• Antonios E. Kouroutakis, Islamic Terrorism: The Legal Impact on the US and Europe, (Boston University International Law Journal, Vol. 34, 2016 Forthcoming).
• Elizabeth Sepper, Healthcare Exemptions and the Future of Corporate Religious Liberty, (The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty (Oxford University Press, Chad Flanders, Zoe Robinson & Micah Schwartzman, eds. 2015, Forthcoming)).
• Elizabeth Deutsch, Expanding Conscience, Shrinking Care: The Crisis in Access to Reproductive Care and the Affordable Care Act's Nondiscrimination Mandate, (Yale Law Journal, Vol. 124, No. 7, 2015).

From SSRN (Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion Symposium, Vol. 16, 2015).

• Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Introduction - People of the Book: Judaism's Influence on American Legal Scholarship.
• Margo Schlanger, Against Solitary Confinement: Jonah's Redemption and Our Need for Mercy. 
• Susan A. Bandes, Civil Liberties and the 'Imaginative Sustenance' of Jewish Culture.
• Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Reinvention with Authenticity: A New Journey on a Familiar Road.

From SSRN (Marriage):

• Kevin H. Govern, Fidelity and Fairness in Marital Commitments, Covenants, and Contractual Relationships: Mulieris Dignitatem's Wisdom, (in American Law from a Catholic Perspective: Through a Clearer Lens, Ronald Rychlak Ed., Rowman & Littlefield (April 2015)).
• Mae Kuykendall, Marriage Goals and Government Interests: Handling Complexity, Apportioning Expertise, Using Federalism, (May 20, 2015).
• R. Anthony Reese, Be Careful Where You Live When You Die: Termination of Copyright Transfers and the Road to Marriage Equality, (IP Theory, Forthcoming, 2015).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Jeremy A. Rovinsky, The Cutting Edge: The Debate Over Regulation of Ritual Slaughter in the Western World, [Abstract], 45 California Western International Law Journal 79-107 (2014).
• Politics of Religious Freedom. Introduction by Peter Danchin, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Saba Mahmood and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd; articles by Ratna Kapur, Heather Miller Rubens, Peter Danchin, Louis Blond, Tamir Moustafa, Waheeda Amien and Annie Leatt (Dhammamegha). 29 Maryland Journal of International Law 293-547 (2014).
• Philip C. Aka, Shaping Their Better Character: Religion In African American Politics In the Age of Obama, 16 Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion 1-70 (2014).
• Mairaj Syed, Compulsion in Islamic Law, Entry in Oxford Encyclopedia of Islamic Law, Academia.edu 2015.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Steven H. Resnicoff, Jewish Identity's Impact in a Nutshell, (Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Forthcoming).
• Mohamed Abdelaal, Leadership Accountability in Islam: Islamic Standards for Holding the Executive Accountable for Official Misconduct, (Global Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming).
• Frederick Mark Gedicks & Rebecca G. Van Tassell, Of Burdens and Baselines: Hobby Lobby's Puzzling Footnote 37, (in The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty, Oxford University Press, Chad Flanders, Zoe Robinson & Micah Schwartzman, eds. 2015, Forthcoming).
• Nahshon Perez, Lautsi vs. Italy: Questioning the Majoritarian Premise, (May 14, 2015).
• Yuval Jobani & Nahshon Perez, Women of the Wall: A Normative Analysis of the Place of Religion in the Public Sphere, (Forthcoming: Oxford Journal of Law and Religion).
• Paul T. Babie, Religion and Constitutionalism: Oscillations Along a Continuum, (Journal of Religious History Vol. 39, No. 1, March 2015).
• Linda C. McClain, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 'Legislating Morality': On Conscience, Prejudice, and Whether 'Stateways' Can Change 'Folkways', (95 Boston University Law Review 891 (2015)).
• Ahmad T. Alharbi, Islamic Law and Banking: An Overview, (May 5, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• Kenneth K. Ching, Would Jesus Kill Hitler?: Bonhoeffer, Church, and State, 11 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 529-576 (2013).
• Matthew A. Melone, Corporations and Religious Freedom: Hobby Lobby Stores--A Missed Opportunity to Reconcile a Flawed Law with a Flawed Health Care System. 48 Indiana Law Review 461-508 (2015).
• Jonathan S. Sussman, Prayer for Relief: Considering the Limits of Religious Practices in the Military, 20 Roger Williams University Law Review 75-118 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Meital Pinto, The Right to Culture, the Right to Dispute and the Right to Exclude: A New Perspective on Minorities within Minorities, (Ratio Juris, 2015 Forthcoming).
• Ira C. Lupu, Moving Targets: Religious Freedom, Hobby Lobby, and the Future of LGBT Rights, (Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review (Vol. 7, Issue #1, Fall, 2015)).
• Brandon L. Paradise, How Critical Race Theory Marginalizes the African-American Christian Tradition, (Michigan Journal of Race & Law, Vol. 20, No. 117, Fall 2014).
• Adam Lamparello, A Fourth Amendment Framework for the Free Exercise Clause, (May 5, 2015).
• Michele Goodwin & Allison M. Whelan, Law, Bioethics, and Biotechnology, (International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., Vol. 13, James D. Wright, Editor, 2015, Forthcoming).
• William C. Bradford, Trahison Des Professeurs: The Critical Law of Armed Conflict Academy as an Islamist Fifth Column, (3 National Security Law Journal __ (2015 Forthcoming)).
• Gwendolyn Gordon, Culture in Corporate Law, or: A Black Corporation, a Christian Corporation, and a Maori Corporation Walk into a Bar... , (May 7, 2015).
• Deborah A. Widiss, Non-Marital Families and (Or After?) Marriage Equality, (Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 42, 2015).
• Iginio Gagliardone, Mapping and Analysing Hate Speech Online, (May 1, 2014).

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

• Shabnam Haji, Public Involvement and Constitutional Theocracy in Iran,(September 11, 2014).
• Riaz Tejani, 'A Logic of Camps': French Antiracism as Competitive Nationalism, (Political and Legal Anthropology Review 38:1, 2015).
• Haider Ala Hamoudi, The Political Codification of Islamic Law: A Closer Look at the Draft Shi’I Personal Status Code of Iraq, (Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2015).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Mark W. Cordes, Schools, Worship, and the First Amendment, 48 Suffolk University Law Review 9-65 (2015).
• Hon. Kermit V. Lipez, Is There a Place for Religion in Judicial Decision-Making?, 31 Touro Law Review 133-148 (2014).
• ABA Business Law Section, Adoption of Changes to the Model Nonprofit Corporation Act-- Miscellaneous and Technical Amendments, 70 Business Lawyer 467-487 (Spring 2015).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Josh Blackman, Collective Liberty, (Floyd Abrams Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference at Yale Law School, May 2-3, 2015).
• Ioana Cismas & Stacy N. Cammarano, Whose Right and Who's Right? The US Supreme Court v. The European Court of Human Rights on Corporate Exercise of Religion, (Boston University International Law Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2016 Forthcoming).
• Dov Fox, Religion and the Unborn under the First Amendment, (April 27, 2015).
• Alexander Guney, Standing Before the Law: A Perspective on the Intersection of Law and Society, (University of San Francisco Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 161, 2015).
• Perry Dane, Judaism, Pluralism, and Constitutional Glare, (Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Forthcoming).
• Robert J. Hunt & James J. Woodruff, God & Man in the Military: Military Commanders and the First Amendment, (The Reporter: Education and Outreach for The Judge Advocate General's Corps, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2015).

From SSRN (non-US law):

• Alev Dudek, Integration of and the Potential for Islamic Radicalization Among Ethnic Turks in Germany, (June 16, 2014).
• Vanessa Haggie, But Names Will Never Hurt Me: Extending Hate Speech Legislation to Protect Gender and Sexual Minorities in New Zealand, (2013).

From SSRN (Marriage):

• Jack B. Harrison, On Marriage and Polygamy, (Ohio North University Law Review, Vol. XLII, Forthcoming).
• Katie R. Eyer, Brown, Not Loving: Obergefell and the Unfinished Business of Formal Equality, 125 Yale L. J. F. 1 (2015).

From SSRN (Charity law):

• Linda Sugin, Strengthening Charity Law: Replacing Media Oversight with Advance Rulings for Nonprofit Fiduciaries, (Tulane Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 3, 2015).
• Miranda Perry Fleischer, Libertarianism and the Charitable Tax Subsidies, (Boston College Law Review, Vol. 56, September 2015).

New Books:

• Gary Scott Smith, Religion in the Oval Office: The Religious Lives of American Presidents, (Oxford Univ. Press, March 31, 2015), reviewed by Wall of Separation blog.
• Anna Grzymała-Busse, Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy, (Princeton Univ. Press, April 2015).
• Andrew Hambler, Religious Expression in the Workplace and the Contested Role of Law, (Routledge, 2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Robin L. West, Freedom of the Church and Our Endangered Civil Rights: Exiting the Social Contract, (in The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty, Zoe Robinson, Chad Flanders and Micah Schwartzman, eds., Oxford University Press, 2015, Forthcoming).
• Nicholas B. Adell, Razing the Forest to Kill a Tree: EEOC V. Abercrombie and Why the Supreme Court Must Continue to Place the Burden of Actual Notice on Applicants and Employees in Title VII Requests for Religious Accommodation,(April 19, 2015).
• Harry G. Hutchison, Metaphysical Univocity and the Immanent Frame: Defending Religious Liberty in a Secular Age?, (George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 15-13, April 2015).
• Michael J. Perry, American Religious Freedom: Reflections on Koppelman and Smith, (The Review of Politics 77 (2015), 287-299).
• Ryan H. Nelson, Marriage Equality and the Third Nail in the 'Proceed with Caution' Coffin, (90 N.Y.U. L. Rev. Online 17 (2015)).
• Howard M. Wasserman, Crazy in Alabama: The Judicial Process and the Last Stand Against Marriage Equality in the Land of George Wallace, (Northwestern University Law Review, 2015).

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

• Gabriel Cepaluni & Umberto G. Mignozzetti, Discrimination in International Courts Before and After 09/11: A Natural Experiment in the WTO Dispute Settlement, (April 17, 2015).
• Isaac Kfir, The Morocco Truth Commission Balancing Religion, Realpolitik and Idealism, (Impunity Watch L.J., Forthcoming).
• Muhammad Munir, The Principle of Legality in Islamic Criminal Justice System, (April 20, 2015).
• Michael J. Perry, Human Rights Theory, 2: What Reason Do We Have, If Any, to Take Human Rights Seriously? Beyond 'Human Dignity', (Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-350, April 2015).
• Matthew S. Erie, Defining Shariʿa in China: State, Ahong, and the Postsecular Turn, (Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, Vol. 12, Pp. 88-117. 2014).
• Steven F. Friedell, A Jewish Constitution, (April 22, 2015).
• Fiona Martin, Has the Charities Act 2013 Changed the Common Law Concept of Charitable 'Public Benefit' and, if so, How?, (Australian Tax Forum, Vol. 30, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• T.W. Brown, Ensuring the Application of RFRA and RLUIPA in Pro Se Prisoner Litigation, 41 Ohio Northern Univeristy Law Review 29-60 (2014).
• A Discussion of Religious Freedom in America. Article by Steven D. Smith; responses by Andrew Koppelman, Paul Horwitz and Nelson Tebbe; reply by Steven D. Smith. 41 Pepperdine Law Review 903-990 (2014).
• Symposium: Islamic and Jewish Law in the 21st Century. Introduction by Michael A. Helfand; articles by Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin, Christopher C. Lund, Ann Laquer Estin, Seval Yildirim, Faisal Kutty, Zvi Triger and Russell Powell. 41 Pepperdine Law Review 991-1113 (2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Tadeusz Kugler, State-Sponsored Religion as Impediment To Assimilation and Immigration: A Look at Europe, (In Narratives and Negotiation: Agency, Religion and the State, edited by Autumn Quezada-Grant and Sargon Donabed. New York, NY: Lexington Books, 2015).
• Doulas Laycock & Thomas C. Berg, Brief of Douglas Laycock, Thomas Berg, David Blankenhorn, Marie Failinger, and Edward Gaffney as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners in Same-Sex Marriage Cases (Obergefell v. Hodges etc.), (April 12, 2015).
• Lucia Ann Silecchia, The Call to Stewardship: A Catholic Perspective on Environmental Responsibility, (Chapter 17 of American Law from a Catholic Perspective, Edited by Ronald J. Rychlak, 2015).
• Robert A. Kahn, The Overlapping of Fools? Drawing the Line between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Wake of the 2014 Gaza Protests, (U of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-11, 2015).
• Pamela Foohey, Secured Credit in Religious Institutions' Reorganizations, (2015 U Ill L Rev Slip Opinions 1).
• Daniel Ortner, The Terrorist's Veto: Why the First Amendment Must Protect Provocative Portrayals of the Prophet Muhammad, (April 8, 2015).
• J. Stephen Clark, But for Sex: Equal Protection and the Individual Opportunity to Marry One's Chosen Partner Without Regard to Sex, (South Dakota Law Review, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Robin Fretwell Wilson, When Governments Insulate Dissenters From Social Change: What Hobby Lobby and Abortion Conscience Clauses Teach About Specific Exemptions,48 UC Davis Law Review 703-790 (2014).
• Is Religion Outdated (As A Constitutional Category)?, Introduction by Steven D. Smith and Larry Alexander; articles by Christopher J. Eberle, Stanley Fish, William A. Galston, Larry Alexander, Frederick Mark Gedicks, Micah Schwartzman, Maimon Schwarzschild and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan; reply by Andrew Koppelman. 51 San Diego L. Rev. 971-1142 (2014). 
• Tengku Ahmad Hazri, Constitutional Governance and the Future of Islamic Civilisation, Islam and Civilisational Renewal (from Academia.edu).