Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Paul Horwitz, The Religious Geography of Town of Greece v. Galloway, (Supreme Court Review, Forthcoming).
• Leonid Sykiainen, Is Sharia Compatible with Contemporary Russian Law?, (Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 49/LAW/2015, April 2015).
• Leslie C. Griffin, A Word of Warning from a Woman: Arbitrary, Categorical and Hidden Religious Exemptions Threaten LGBT Rights, (LGBT Antidiscrimination Law and Policy After Hobby Lobby Symposium, March 2015).
• Naheed Ghauri, Domestic Violence (Q.4:34) and the Qur’Ānic Model: Q.4:34 – Hermeneutical Analysis of Verse 34 and the Surrounding Controversy, (March 9, 2015).
• Amna A. Akbar, National Security's Broken Windows, (UCLA Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Danieli Evans, Commercial Religious Exercise: Translating the Commercial Speech Doctrine to the Free Exercise Clause, (Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 103, No. 50, 2014).
• Gary J. Simson, Religious Arguments by Citizens to Influence Public Policy: The Lessons of the Establishment Clause, (Mercer Law Review, Vol. 66, p. 273, 2015).
• Carlos A. Ball, Obsecenity, Morality, and the First Amendment: The First LGBT Rights Cases Before the Supreme Court, (Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2015).
• Christopher R. Leslie, Justice Alito's Dissent in Loving v. Virginia, (Boston College Law Review, Vol. 55, 2014).

From SmartCILP:

• Delaram Farzaneh, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: A Brief History of Legal Discriminations Against Women in Iran and the Violations of International Human Rights. 20 Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law 201-237 (2014).
• Isaac Kfir, Feminist Legal Theory As a Way to Explain the Lack of Progress of Women's Rights in Afghanistan: The Need for a State Strength Approach. 21 William & Mary Journal of Women & Law 87-152 (2014).
• Maita, Aida. Arbitration of Islamic Financial Disputes. 20 Annual Surey of International & Comparative Law 35-71 (2014).
• Shari'a and Halakha in North America. Introduction by Mark D. Rosen; roundtable discussion with Wajahat Ali, Lee Ann Bambach, Samuel Freedman, participants; articles by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Mustafa R.K. Baig and Michael A. Helfand; keynote addresses by Michael J. Broyde and Mohannad H. Fadel. 90 Chicago-Kent. Law Review 3-181 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Marc O. DeGirolami, Free Exercise by Moonlight, (San Diego Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Twana A. Hassan, A Historical Analysis of the Development of Free Speech Justifications, (March 28, 2015).
• Frank S. Ravitch, Be Careful What You Wish for: Why Hobby Lobby Weakens Religious Freedom, (Brigham Young University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Robert L. Howse, Joanna Langille & Katie Sykes, Pluralism in Practice: Moral Legislation and the Law of the WTO After Seal Products, (George Washington International Law Review, (2015 Forthcoming)).
• Mark Tushnet, Civil Rights Policy, (April 2, 2015).
• Marc Greendorfer, Brief of Tri Valley Law as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents in Same Sex Marriage Cases Nos. 14-556, 14-562, 14-571 and 14-574, (April 2, 2015).
• Scott D. Gerber, Law and Religion in Colonial Connecticut, (55 Am. J. Legal Hist. 205, (April 2015)).
• Christopher McCrudden, Transnational Culture Wars, (I.CON International Journal of Constitutional Law, Forthcoming).
• James M. Oleske, 'State Inaction,' Equal Protection, and Religious Resistance to LGBT Rights, (University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 87, 2015, Forthcoming).

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

• Michael Ramsden & Luke Marsh, Same Sex Marriage in Hong Kong: The Case for a Constitutional Right, (The International Journal of Human Rights (Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2015, pages 90-103).
• M.B. Hooker, Succession to Muslim Estates in Singapore: Sources of Law and Choice of Law, (Australian Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 15, No. 2, article 5, 2014).
• Rebecca French, What Is Buddhist Law?, (Buffalo Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Haider Ala Hamoudi, Wasfi H. Al-Sharaa & Aqeel Al-Dahhan, The Resolution of Disputes in State and Tribal Law in the South of Iraq: Toward a Cooperative Model of Pluralism, (in Negotiating State and Nonstate Law: The Challenges of Global and Local Legal Pluralism (Michael A. Helfand, ed. Cambridge University Press 2015)).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Corri Zoli, Emily Schneider & Courtney Schuster, Armed Conflict and Compliance in Muslim States, 1947-2014: Does Conflict Look Different Under International Humanitarian Law?, 40 North Carolina Journal of International Law & Commercial Regulation 679-738 (2015).
• Church & State, April 2015 Issue.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Daniel Ortner, Conscientious Offenders: Russia's Ban on 'Extremist' Religious Literature, and the European Court of Human Rights, (Virginia Journal of International Law, Forthcoming).
• Karin Beatrix Calitz, The Liability of Churches for the Historical Sexual Assault of Children by Priests, (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 6, 2014).
• Rowena Bronwen Bernard, Reasonable Accommodation in the Workplace: To Be or Not to Be?, (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 6, 2014).
• Shivam Goel, Concept of Rights in Islam, (in Concept of Rights in Islam; Lambert Academic Publication, 2014).
• Neil James Foster, Vicarious Liability and Non-Delegable Duty in Common Law Actions Based on Institutional Child Abuse, (March 20, 2015).
• Brian M. Murray, A Tale of Two Inquiries: The Ministerial Exception After Hosanna-Tabor, (Southern Methodist University Law Review, Vol. 68, No. 4, 2015).
• Caroline Mala Corbin, Intentional Discrimination in Establishment Clause Jurisprudence, (Alabama Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Gerard J. Clark, Hobby Lobby and Galloway: The Expansion of the Role of Religion in American Governance, (Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 15-15 (2015)).
• Zoe Robinson, Lobbying in the Shadows: Religious Interest Groups in the Legislative Process, (Emory Law Journal, Vol. 64, 2015).
• David Glasgow, Making Room at the Inn: Protecting the Expression of Sexual Identity in Anti-Discrimination Law, (Alternative Law Journal 40(1) (2015)).

From SSRN (Marriage and Family issues):

• Joan Heifetz Hollinger & Courtney G. Joslin, Amici Curiae Brief of Family Law Professors in Obergefell v. Hodges (U.S. 2014, Nos. 14-556, 14-562, 14-571 and 14-574), (March 6, 2015).
• Laurence H. Tribe & Michael C. Dorf, Brief of Amici Curiae Professors Laurence H. Tribe and Michael C. Dorf in Support of Petitioners: Obergefell v. Hodges; DeBoer v. Snyder, (March 25, 2015).
• Linda C. McClain, Is There a Way Forward in the 'War Over the Family'?, 93 Texas Law Review 705 (2015).
• David Bleich, A Proposal to Withhold Divorce Decrees on Grounds of Equity, (International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Nathan A. Berkeley, Religious Freedom and LGBT Rights: Trading Zero Sum Approaches for Careful Distinctions and Genuine Pluralism, 50 Gonzaga Law Review 1-28 (2014/2015).
• R. George Wright, Religion without God and the Future of Free Exercise, 63 Cleveland State Law Review 147-161 (2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Andrew Koppelman & Frederick Mark Gedicks, Is Hobby Lobby Worse for Religious Liberty than Smith?, (St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy, Forthcoming).
• Annabelle Lever, Democratic Equality and Freedom of Religion: The Dilemma of Public Service Provision, (Forthcoming in Philosophy and Public Issues (July 2015)).
• James Lindgren, Measuring Diversity: Law Faculties in 1997 and 2013, (March 20, 2015).
• James E. Fleming, Introduction to the Symposium on Ronald Dworkin's Religion Without God, (94 Boston University Law Review 1201 (2014)).
• David S. Cohen & Krysten Connon, Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism, (Oxford University Press, 2015).

From SSRN (LGBT Rights and Same-Sex Marriage):

• Nan D, Hunter, Pluralism and its Perils: Navigating the Tension between Gay Rights and Religious Expression, (2015).
• Nelson Tebbe, Religion and Marriage Equality Statutes, (Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 9, No. 25, 2015).
• Zachary Robert Herz, The Marrying Kind, (Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 82, 2015).
• Suja A. Thomas, Text-Bound Originalism (And Why Originalism Does Not Strictly Govern Same Sex Marriage), (March 16, 2015).

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

• Stephanie Farrior, Equality and Non-Discrimination under International Law, (in Equality and Non-Discrimination Under International Law, Stephanie Farrior, ed., Ashgate Publishing, 2015).
• Zulkarnain Muhamad Sori, Shamsher Mohamad & Mohamed Eskandar Shah, Shariah Governance Practices in Malaysian Islamic Financial Institutions, (March 16, 2015).
• Yinka Olomojobi, Islam: Between Peace and Violence, (March 17, 2015).
• Marc Lane Roark, Retelling English Sovereignty, (British J. Am. Legal Studies, Forthcoming).
• Manjeet Sahu, Preferential Treatment of Hindus Under Indian Tax Law: Emphasizing on Grant of Tax Benefit to Hindu Undivided Family, (April 21, 2014).

From SmartCILP:

• Martin Wishnatsky, The Disincorporation Proclamation: Emancipating the Establishment Clause from the Fourteenth Amendment, 5 Faulkner aw Review 259-307 (2014)

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• Daniel Hay, Baptizing O’Brien: Towards Intermediate Protection of Religiously Motivated Expressive Conduct, (Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 68, No. 1, 2015).
• Alycia Michelle Wilson, Witches and Guns: The Intersection between Wicca and the Second Amendment, (February 4, 2015).
• Michael Schearer, God, Inc.: Hobby Lobby and Religious Freedom, (January 15, 2015).
• Aaron R. Petty, Accommodating 'Religion', (Tennessee Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Mohammad Fadel, Religious Law, Family Law and Arbitration: Shari'a and Halakha in America, (Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 1, 2015).
• Marie Ashe, Hosanna-Tabor, the Ministerial Exemption, and Losses of Equality: Constitutional Law and Religious Privilege in the US, (2 Oxford Journal of Law and Religion (2015)).
• Adam Lamparello, Why Chief Justice Roy Moore and the Alabama Supreme Court Just Made the Case for Same-Sex Marriage, (March 13, 2015).
• Andrew Koppelman & Ilya Somin, Amicus Brief in Obergefell v. Hodges, (Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 15-12). 

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

• Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Living Gardens, Living Art, and Living Tradition, (5 IP Theory Journal 73 (2015)).
• Mark Walters, Succession to the Throne and the Architecture of the Constitution of Canada, (Queen's University Legal Research Paper No. 2015-001 (2014)).
• Lorenzo Zucca, A Secular Manifesto for Europe, (March 5, 2015).
• Anuradha Chadha, A Case for Reservation in Favour of Religious Minorities,(March 6, 2015).
• Mariano Croce, Secularization, Legal Pluralism, and the Question of Relationship-Recognition Regimes, (The European Legacy 20(2) (2015): 151–165).
• Marie Ashe & Anissa Helie, Realities of Religio-Legalism: Religious Courts and Women's Rights in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, (20 U.Cal.-Davis J. International Law & Policy 139 (Spring 2014)).
• Muhammad Munir, Mechanisms for Child Protection with Focus on Child Custody: Islamic Law and Case Studies of Pakistan and Jordan, (March 8, 2015).
• Frank S. Ravitch, The Japanese Prime Minister's Visits to the Yasukuni Shrine Analyzed Under Articles 20 and 89 of the Japanese Constitution, (Michigan State University College of Law Journal of International Law, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2014).
• Tomas Berkmanas, Natural Law and Political Ontology: A Historico-Philosophical Outline of a Major Human Transformation, (Baltic Journal of Law & Politics 7:2 (2014): 119-151).

From SmartCILP:

• Moamen Gouda & Dawood I. Ahmed, Measuring Constitutional Islamization: the Islamic Constitutions Index, 38 Hastings International & Comparative Law Review 1-74 (2015).
• Sonja R. West, First Amendment Neighbors, 66 Alabama Law Review 357-374 (2014).

Recent Book:

• Carol Weisbrod, Kites and the Sabbath: Legal Transplants and Pluralism in Hawaii, (Vanderplas Publishing, Oct. 2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Zvi H. Triger, 'A Jewish and Democratic State:' Reflections on the Fragility of Israeli Secularism, (41 Pepperdine Law Review 1091 (2014)).
• Luke Beck, The Establishment Clause of the Australian Constitution: Three Propositions and a Case Study, (Adelaide Law Review, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2014, pp. 225-250).
• Rebecca Gould, Everyday Violence, Quotidian Grief: Patriarchal Bargains in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge, (Women Living Under Muslim Laws Dossier 32-33: Sexualities, Culture and Society in Muslim Contexts, ed. Anissa Hélie 123-135).
• Sean McDivitt, Striking the Harmonious Chord for Corporate Social Responsibility and Individuals: Affirming Closely Held Corporations’ Religious Objections to the HHS Mandate, (Oklahoma City University Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2014).
• Paul Andrew Gwaza, Addressing the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria: The Effectiveness or Otherwise for the Application of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Techniques, (March 5, 2015).
• Lindsey H. Emerson, An Artifact or a Memorial: The Latin Cross and the Establishment Clause, (March 5, 2015).
• Caroline Mala Corbin, Exploiting Mixed Speech, (California Law Review Circuit, Vol. 103, 2015, Forthcoming).
• Julia Guenther, Gender and Globalization: Power Relations at India's Margins, (Journal of Developing Societies March 2015 31: 1-7).
• Seth Barrett Tillman, Letter from Seth Barrett Tillman to Ukip in Regard to Ukip's Supporting the British Veterinary Association (“BVA”) and Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (“RSPCA”) in Calling for a Ban on Non-Stun Slaughter, (March 7, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• Vicenc Feliu, Corporate "Soul": Legal Incorporation of Catholic Ecclesiastical Property in the United States: A Historical Perspective, 40 Ohio Northern University Law Review 441-465 (2014).
• Louis W. Hensler III, Flexible Interpretations of "The Powers That Be" From Constantine to Mandela and Beyond, 27 Regent University Law Review 43-102 (2014-2015).
• The Travels of Law: Indian Ocean Itineraries. Introduction by Renisa Mawani and Iza Hussin; articles by Julia Stephens, Iza Hussin, Fahad Ahmad Bishara, Rohit De and Riyad Sadiq Koya; afterword by Engseng Ho. 32 Law & History Review 733-889 (2014). 

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Laura R. Ford, Prerogative, Nationalized: The Social Formation of Intellectual Property, (February 23, 2015).
• Steven G. Calabresi & Justin R. Braga, The Jurisprudence of Justice Antonin Scalia: A Response to Professor Bruce Allen Murphy and Professor Justin Driver, (Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 15-05 (2015)).
• Steven Douglas Smith, Situating Ourselves in History, (Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 41, 2014).
• Richard B. Collins, Too Strict?, (First Amendment Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Ruth Fletcher, Conscientious Objection and Harm Reduction in Europe, (Conscientious Objection and Abortion: A Global Perspective on the Colombian Experience (Women's Link Worldwide and O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, 123-146, 2014)). 
• Edward A. Zelinsky, The Aftermath of Hobby Lobby: HSAs and HRAs as the Least Restrictive Means, (Rutgers Law Record, Vol. 42, 2014/15, pp. 109-25).
• David M. Shapiro, Lenient in Theory, Dumb in Fact: Prison, Speech, and Scrutiny, (Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 15-08 (21015)).
• William N. Eskridge, Original Meaning and Marriage Equality, (Houston Law Review, Vol. 52, 2015).

From SSRN: Religious Accommodation:

• Richard W. Garnett, Religious Accommodations And — And Among — Civil Rights: Separation, Toleration, and Accommodation, (Southern California Law Review, Vol. 88, 2015, Forthcoming).
• Marci A. Hamilton, The Case for Evidence-Based Free Exercise Accommodation: Why the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Is Bad Public Policy, (Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 9, 2015).
• Matthew Wright, Stuart N. Soroka, Jack Citrin & Richard Johnston, Multiculturalism and Muslim Accommodation: What Reaction Among the Mainstream?, (Paper presented at "Causes and Consequences of Immigration and Citizenship Policies" conference, Berlin, 2014).
• Andrew Koppelman, Gay Rights, Religious Accommodations, and the Purposes of Antidiscrimination Law, (Southern California Law Review, Forthcoming).

From SSRN: Religious Law:

• Michael A. Helfand, Introduction: Religious Law in the 21st Century, (Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 991, 2014).
• Timothy Lubin, Hinduism and Law, (Hinduism in India: Modern and Contemporary Movements, eds. Will Sweetman and Aditya Malik (Sage Publications, 2015)).
• Magomet Yandiev, Absence of Interbank Loan Market and Banking Short-Term Liquidity Management Mechanisms: The Most Pressing Problems of the Islamic Finance Model, (February 15, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• Neville Cox, Blasphemy, Holocaust Denial and the Control of Profoundly Unacceptable Speech, [Abstract], 62 American Journal of Comparative Law 739-774 (2014).
• Marvin Lim, Just War and the Roman Catholic Life Ethic, 26 Florida Journal of International Law 151-196 (2014).
• Mark Tushnet, Liberals, Litigants, and the Disappearance of Consensus About the Religion Clauses. (Reviewing Steven D. Smith, The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom), 93 Texas Law Review 207-217 (2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Pamela Foohey, When Faith Falls Short: Bankruptcy Decisions of Churches,(February 13, 2015).
• Laura Marie Winocur, Competing Visions of the Modern Secular State in Law and Policy, (February 12, 2015).
• Robert T. Miller, Experience Explained: Review of David Skeel's "True Paradox", (U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-02, Jan. 2015).
• Mattheew P. Cavedon, Mere Ultramontanism, (December 14, 2013).
• Mark Cammack, Adriaan Bedner & Stijn Van Huis, Democracy, Human Rights, and Islamic Family Law in Post-Soeharto Indonesia, (New Middle Eastern Studies, Forthcoming).
• Ronald Turner, Title VII and the Roberts Court's Worldview Supremacy, (65 Labor Law Journal 149 (Fall 2014)).
• Hamed Ghoddusi & Sajjad Khoshroo, Islamic Finance and the Energy Sector,(February 16, 2015).
• Ari Z. Bryen, Martyrdom, Rhetoric, and the Politics of Procedure, (Classical Antiquity, Vol. 33, Issue 2, pp. 243–280 (2014)).

From SmartCILP:

• Zachary R. Calo, Carhart Lecture Series. Christianity, Islam, and Secular Law, 39 Ohio Northern University Law Review 879-900 (2013).
• Michelle A. McKinley, Standing On Shaky Ground: Criminal Jurisdiction and Ecclesiastical Immunity In Seventeenth-Century Lima, 1600-1700, 4 UC Irvine Law Review 141-174 (2014).
• Lena Salaymeh, Every Law Tells A Story: Orthodox Divorce In Jewish and Islamic Legal Histories, 4 UC Irvine Law Review 19-63 (2014).
• Christopher Tomlins, Demonic Ambiguities: Enchantment and Disenchantment in Nat Turner's Virginia, 4 UC Irvine Law Review 175-202 (2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Rene F. Najera & Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, First Do No Harm: Protecting Patients Through Immunizing Health Care Workers, (February 8, 2015).
• Seval Yildirim, Conceptions of Religion in the Secular State: Evolving Turkish Secularism, (Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 1049, 2014).
• William P. Marshall, Bad Statutes Make Bad Law: Hobby Lobby v. Burwell, (Supreme Court Review, Vol. 2014).
• Andrew Koppelman, Theorists, Get Over Yourselves: A Response to Steven D. Smith, (41 Pepperdine Law Review 937 (2014)).
• Tom Syring, Introductory Note to the European Court of Human Rights’ Judgment on the Legality of a Ban on Wearing Full-Face Veils in Public (Case of S.A.S. v. France), (53 International Legal Materials 1025 (2014)).
• Douglas NeJaime & Reva Siegel, Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics, (Yale Law Journal, Vol. 124, 2015 Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Michael J. Davidson, Sanctuary: A Modern Legal Anachronism (.pdf download), 42 Capital University Law Review 583-618 (2014).
• Roza Pati, Marshalling the Forces of Good: Religion and the Fight Against Human Trafficking, (Abstract), 9 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 1-23 (2014).
• Sr. Eugenia Bonetti, Women Helping Women: The Italian Experience of Women Religious in Combating Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery, (Abstract), 9 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 25-39 (2014).
• Fr. Jude O. Ezeanokwasa, The Priest-Penitent Privilege Revisited: A Reply To the Statutes of Abrogation, (Abstract), 9 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 41-102 (2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jordan Mathews, State RFRAs: Trust Judges to Strike the Proper Balance Between Religious Freedom and Anti-Discrimination Law, (February 1, 2015).
• Leah Achor, A Historical Defense of State Protection of Private Conscience, (December 13, 2014).
• Douglas NeJaime & Reva Siegel, Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics, (Yale Law Journal, Vol. 124, 2015 Forthcoming).
• Brandon Harvard Riches, Codifying Commonsense: Religious Viewpoint Antidiscrimination Acts and the Free Speech Rights They Protect, (February 3, 2015).
• Howard Kislowicz, Law, Religion, and Feeling Included/Excluded: Case Studies in Canadian Religious Freedom Litigation, (Canadian Journal of Law and Society (Forthcoming 2015)).
• Nelson Tebbe, The End of Religious Freedom: What Is at Stake?, (Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 963, 2014).
• Clayton Douglas Adams, Personal Foul, Roughing the Speaker: The Illusory War between the Establishment Clause & College Football, (February 4, 2015).
• Jennifer Ann Drobac & Jill L. Wesley, Religion and Employment Antidiscrimination Law: Past, Present, and Post Hosanna-Tabor, (NYU Annual Survey of American Law, Vol. 69, p. 761, 2014).
• Khaled A. Beydoun, Facing Mecca from Prison: Religious Accommodation of Muslim Prisoners Before Holt v. Hobbs, (February 7, 2015).
• Derek Joseph Goff, New Life in the First Amendment: Funeral Protest Statutes after McCullen v. Coakley, (January 31, 2015).
• Ellis Goldberg, Territorial States: Monopolies in the Market for Justice, (January 30, 2015).
• Alice Ristroph, Just Violence, (Arizona Law Review, Vol. 56, 2014).

From SmartCILP:

• Antony Barone Kolenc. Not "For God and Country": Atheist Military Chaplains and the Free Exercise Clause, 48 University of San Francisco Law Review 395-456 (2014).
• Inaugural Themed Issue: Faith-Based Legal Systems. Articles by Mohamed A. Arafa and David L. Johnston. 24 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 859-920 (2014).

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• Michael Heise, Lost Ground: Catholic Schools, the Future of Urban School Reform, and Empirical Legal Scholarship, (Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper, Jan. 2015).
• Shaun Alberto de Freitas, Proselytism and the Right to Freedom from Improper Irreligious Influence: The Example of Public School Education, (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2014).
• Fatima Osman, Legislative Prohibitions on Wearing a Headscarf: Are They Justified?, (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2014).
• Vincent Phillip Munoz, Church and State in the Founding-Era State Constitutions, (January 28, 2015).
• Alex Chung, Religion, Pluralism and the Secular State: Commentary on Marriage Equality and Disability Rights, (University of Notre Dame Australia B.A. Honors Thesis, October 31, 2014).
• Leo E. Strine, A Job is Not a Hobby: The Judicial Revival of Corporate Paternalism and its Problematic Implications, (January 26, 2015).
• Tasha Alyssa Hill, Inmates' Need for Federally Funded Lawyers: How the Prison Litigation Reform Act, Casey, and Iqbal Combine with Implicit Bias to Eviscerate Inmate Civil Rights, (62 UCLA Law Review 176 (2015)).
• Michael J. T. McMillen, Islamic Banking: Some Distinguishing Regulatory Considerations, (New York State Bar Association 2015 Annual Meeting Papers).
• Fran Quigley, For Goodness’ Sake: A Two-Part Proposal for Remedying the U.S. Charity/Justice Imbalance, (January 30, 2015). 

Recent Book:

• Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, (Knopf, Oct. 2014, reviewed by Buffalo News.

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• SpearIt, Religion in Prison, (Religion and American Cultures, p. 1154, Gary Laderman & Luis Leon, eds., ABC-CLIO, 2014).
• Andrew Koppelman, 'Religion' as a Bundle of Legal Proxies: Reply to Micah Schwartzman , 51 San Diego L. Rev. 1079 (2014),
• Susan Azyndar, Review of 'Dressing Constitutionally: Hierarchy, Sexuality, and Democracy from Our Hairstyles to Our Shoes' by Ruthann Robson, (Law Library Journal, Vol. 106, No. 3, pp. 464-65 (2014)).
• Michael Heise, Education Rights and Wrongs: Publicly Funded Vouchers, State Constitutions, and Education Death Spirals, (November 1, 2014).
• Richard W. Garnett, The Worms and the Octopus: Religious Freedom, Pluralism, and Conservatism, (in NOMOS: American Conservatism, ed. Sanford V. Levinson, Joel Parker, and Melissa S. Williams (New York: NYU Press, Forthcoming)).
• Jennifer Anglim Kreder, The 'Public Trust', (January 23, 2015).
• Sarah Lambrecht, Bringing Rights More Home: Can a Home-Grown UK Bill of Rights Lessen the Influence of the European Court of Human Rights?, (15 German Law Journal (2014)).
• Richard Moon, Demonstrations on Campus and the Case of Israeli Apartheid Week, (in James L. Turk ed., Academic Freedom in Conflict: The Struggle Over Free Speech Rights in the University (Lorimer, 2014) c. 9).

From SSRN (Christianity and Law):

• Archana Mishra, Adopted and Illegitimate Child Under Indian Christian Law: Revisiting Inheritance Rights, (January 17, 2015).
• Thomas R. Young, Durkheim's Theory of Triangular Force Relations and Its Application to Christian Collegia in the Roman Empire, (January 20, 2015).

From SSRN (Islamic Law and Society):

• Arno Tausch, Further Insight into Global and Arab Muslim Opinion Structures: Statistical Reflections on the 2013 Pew Report 'The World’s Muslims', (Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring 2014)).
• Imelda Deinla & Veronica Taylor, Towards Peace: Rethinking Justice and Legal Pluralism in the Bangsamoro, (RegNet Research Paper No. 2015/63)).
• Imelda Deinla & Veronica Taylor, An Annotated Bibliography on Justice and Legal Pluralism in Mindanao-- Briefing Paper No. 1: Ways for Women to Participate in Peacebuilding (Philippines), (RegNet Research Paper No. 2015/64).
• Murat Çokgezen & Timur Kuran, Between Consumer Demand and Islamic Law: The Evolution of Islamic Credit Cards in Turkey, (Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 182, 2015).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Kathryn E. Kovacs, Eagles, Indian Tribes, and the Free Exercise of Religion, 47 Loyola Los Angeles Law Review 53-116 (2013). 
• The Eighth Annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics, and Culture. Exploring and Celebrating the Legacy of the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr., Introductions by Patrick McKinley Brennan and William Card. Levada; articles by Hon. John T. Noonan, Jr., Richard W. Painter, Kenneth Pennington, Rev. Michael Sweeney and Joseph Vining. 59 Villanova Law Review 649-727 (2014).
• James M. Oleske, Jr., The Born-Again Champion of Conscience, (Harvard Law Review Forum, Jan. 22, 2015).

Recent Book:

• Lawrence H. Winer & Nina J. Crimm, God, Schools, and Government Funding: First Amendment Conundrums, (Ashgate, Jan. 2015). 

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Marie Wicks, Prayer is Prologue: The Impact of Town of Greece on the Constitutionality of Deliberative Public Body Prayer at the Start of School Board Meetings, (January 9, 2015).
• Michael M. Karayanni, Groups in Context: An Ontology of a Muslim Headscarf in a Nazareth Catholic School and a Sephardic Ultra-Orthodox Student in Immanuel, (January 12, 2015).
• P.G. Monateri, Diaspora, the West and the Law. The Birth of Christian Literature Through the Letters of Paul and the End of Diaspora, (January 16, 2015).
• Richard W. Garnett, Chief Justice Rehnquist, Religious Freedom, and the Constitution, (Bradford P. Wilson, ed., The Constitutional Legacy of William H. Rehnquist (West Academic Press, 2015 Forthcoming)).
• Nathan B. Oman, International Legal Experience and the Mormon Theology of the State, 1945-2012, (Iowa Law Review, Vol. 100, 2015).

From SSRN (Islamic Law and Muslim Society):

• Rebecca Gould, Ijtihād Against Madhhab: Legal Hybridity and the Meanings of Modernity in Early Modern Daghestan, (Comparative Studies in Society and History 57(1): 35-66 (2015)).
• Karen Busby & Sara Mahboob, Influences on Young Muslim Women in Winnipeg: Preliminary Report on Key Informant Interviews, (December 9, 2014).
• Mohamed A. Arafa, Whither Egypt? Against Religious Fascism and Legal Authoritarianism: Pure Revolution, Popular Coup, or a Military Coup D’État?, (Indiana International & Comparative Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2014).
• Sharifah Zubaidah Abdul Kader, The Legal Framework of Waqf in Malaysia,(January 9, 2015).
• Ujala Akram, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion And Islam, (European Journal of Law Reform 2014 (6) 2).
• Armaram Shelke, Revisiting ‘The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986’ in the Light of its Impact Over Legal and Jurisprudential Principles, (Symbiosis Contemporary Law Journal (SCLJ), 2013, Volume-II, Number 1).
• Farinaz Zamani & Paula Gerber, Burqa: Human Right or Human Wrong?, ((2014) 39(4) Alternative Law Journal 231).
• Ahmed E. Souaiaia, Theories and Practices of Islamic Finance and Exchange Laws: Poverty of Interest, (International Journal of Business and Social Science, Vol. 5, No. 12; November 2014).
• Mayada Serageldin, On the Demand to Incorporate Shari'a Law into UK Law,(June 16, 2013).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• F. Russell Hittinger, Natural Law and Public Discourse: The Legacies of Joseph Ratzinger, [LEXIS link] [Video of lecture], 60 Loyola Law Review 241-271 (2014).
• Peter T. Leeson, Vermin Trials, 56 Journal of Law & Economics 811-836 (2013).
• Symposium, Do the Religious Beliefs of Supreme Court Justices Influence Their Decisions?, Moment, Jan.-Feb. 2015.
• USCIRF Factsheet, Religious Freedom and Nigeria’s 2015 Elections, (Jan. 2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Marc Helbling & Richard Traunmüller, How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants. New Evidence from a Subnational Comparison, (January 6, 2015).
• Rim-Sarah Alouane, Bas Les Masques! Unveiling Muslim Women on Behalf of the Protection of Public Order: Reflections on the Legal Controversies Around a Novel Definition of 'Public Order' Used to Ban Full-Face Covering in France, (The Experiences of Face Veil Wearers in Europe and the Law (Ed: Eva Brems),Cambridge University Press, 2014, 194-205).
• Washim Ahmed, Old Wine in a New Bottle: Analyzing the Impacts of Polygamy Inadmissibility Under Bill S-7 on Immigration Law, (December 20, 2014).
• Markus Mättö & Mervi Niskanen, National Culture and Cross-Country Differences in Trade Credit, (January 4, 2015).
• Gregory Brazeal, Constitutional Fundamentalism, (January 8, 2015).
• Samuel D. Brunson, Dear I.R.S., It Is Time to Enforce the Campaigning Prohibition. Even Against Churches, (January 7, 2015).

Recent Articles, Book and Movie of Interest

From SSRN:

• Lina Triantafyllia Papadopoulou, Religious Jurisdictions and the Pluralisation of Legal Adjudication: The Emergence of Parallel Religious Jurisdictions in Greece, (August 28, 2014).
• M. Christian Green, From Social Hostility to Social Media: Religious Pluralism, Human Rights, and Democratic Reform in Africa, (African Human Rights Law Journal 14:1 (May 2014): 93-125).
• Mumtaz Ahmad Shah, Jammu and Kashmir: Understanding Identity and Difference, (December 21, 2014).
• Archana Mishra, Breaking Silence - Christian Women's Inheritance Rights Under Indian Succession Act, 1925, (December 25, 2014).
• Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Countering Hate on the Internet, (Annual Review of Law and Ethics, Vol. 22 (2014), pp. 431-443).
• Stephen G. Gilles, Does the Right to Elective Abortion Include the Right to Ensure the Death of the Fetus?, (January 2, 2015).
• Samuel William Bettwy, The Potential of Transnational Cinema to Counter Islamic Extremism, (CTX Journal, vol. 4, No. 4, November 2014).

From SmartCILP:

• Brett A. Geier, Texas Cheerleaders and the First Amendment: Can You Cheer for God At a Football Game?, 33 Mississippi College of Law Review 65-88 (2014).
• Rachel Wagley, The Quiet Audience: U.S. Responsibility To Call For an International Investigation Into Crimes Against Muslims in Burma, 28 Emory International Law Review 43-61 (2014).
• The Multicultural State and the Religiously Neutral State. Reply to Paul Cliteur by Phil Ryan [abstract]; rejoinder by Paul Cliteur [abstract]. 12 I.Con: Int'l J. Const. L. 457-467 (2014).

Recent book:

• Marc Solomon, Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits—and Won, (ForeEdge, Nov. 2014), reviewed by The Daily Beast.

Recent movie:

• One Generation Away: The Erosion of Religious Liberty, (American Family Studios, Sept. 2014), reviewed by The Forward.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Muhammad Munir, Rights of the Child: An Islamic Perspective on Preventing Violence, Abuse, and Exploitation of Children and Pakistani Law, (December 14, 2014).
• Lorenz Blume, Bernd Hayo & Stefan Voigt, Correlates and Determinants of Direct Democracy, (December 23, 2014).
• Kenneth L. Marcus, Higher Education, Antisemitism, and the Law, (December 22, 2014).
• Moslay Uddin & MD Ayatullah, Muslim Law: Judicial and Legislative Changes Around the World, (December 17, 2014).
• Peter Hostettler, The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict and Peace Operations – Achievements and Challenges Ahead, (December 24, 2014).
• Deborah A. Widiss & Andrew Koppelman, A Marriage by Any Other Name: Why Civil Unions Should Receive Federal Recognition, (Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, Forthcoming).
• Tristin Green, On Employment Discrimination and Police Misconduct: Title VII and the Mirage of the 'Monell Analogue', (Boston University Law Review, 2015, Forthcoming).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jane Mair, Belief in Marriage, (Forthcoming in the International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family).
• Ines Michalowski, What is at Stake in Military Chaplaincy When Muslims Join the Ranks? An International Comparison, (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. 2014/126 (Dec. 2014)).
• Linda C. McClain, Corporate Conscience and the Contraceptive Mandate: A Dworkinian Reading, (Forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 30, No. 1, February 2015).
• Thomas J. McSweeney, Magna Carta, Civil Law, and Canon Law, (Magna Carta and the Rule of Law (Daniel Magraw et al eds., 2014)).

From SmartCILP:

• Symposium on Ronald Dworkin's Religion Without God. Introduction by James E. Fleming; articles by Jeremy Waldron, Stephen L. Carter, Paul Horwitz, Andrew Koppelman, Cecile Laborde, Linda C. McClain, Micah Schwartzman and Steven D. Smith. 94 Boston University Law Review 1201-1355 (2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jianlin Chen, Deconstructing the Religious Free Market, (3 Journal of Law, Religion and State 1-24 (2014)).
• Russell G. Pearce & Adam Winer, From Emancipation to Assimilation: Is Secular Liberalism Still Good for Jewish Lawyers?, (in Jews and the Law (Ari Mermelstein, Victoria Saker Woeste, Ethan Zaidoff & Marc Galanter, eds. 2014)).
• Ira C. Lupu & Robert W. Tuttle, Religious Exemptions and the Limited Relevance of Corporate Identity, (in The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty (Zoe Robinson, Chad Flanders, and Micah Schwartzman, eds.), Oxford University Press, 2015).
• Katherine Kidd Young, The Institution of Marriage: Mediation of Nature and Culture in Cross-Cultural Perspective, (December 8, 2014).
• Khaled A. Beydoun, Antebellum Islam, (58:1 Howard L.J. (2015 Forthcoming)).
• Albert D. Spalding, Faith-Based Arbitration Clauses as a Global Alternative to Dispute Resolution, (Review of Business & Finance Studies, v. 5 (2) p. 1-8, 2014).
• John M. Breen, Abortion, Religion, and the Accusation of Establishment: A Critique of Justice Stevens' Opinions in Thornburgh, Webster, and Casey, (Ohio North University Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2013).
• Steven Douglas Smith, The 'Jurisdictional' Conception of Church Autonomy, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 14-177, Dec. 2014).
• Gregory S. Gordon, Speech Along the Atrocity Spectrum, (Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2014).
• Elizabeth A. M. Searing, Charitable (Anti)Trust: The Role of Antitrust Regulation in the Nonprofit Sector, (Nonprofit Policy Forum, 5(2), 261–288).
• Perry Dane, Prayer is Serious Business: Reflections on Town of Greece, (Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Forthcoming).

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

• Hanna Lerner, Critical Junctures, Religion, and Personal Status Regulations in Israel and India, (Law & Social Inquiry, Volume 39, Issue 2, 387-415, Spring 2014).
• Aristidis Tsatsos, The Geopolitical Role of Orthodox Russia within a Planetary Context -- A Hellenic Perspective?, (September 27, 2014).
• Yuko Nishitani, Global Citizens and Family Relations, (Erasmus Law Review, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2014).
• Etah Fidelis Ewane, Rwanda Redux: The Latent Genocide in the Central African Republic and the Failure to Protect, (December 3, 2014).
• Paula Gerber, Kristine Tay & Adiva and Sifris, Marriage: A Human Right for All?, (2014 36(4) Sydney Law Review 643).
• Ivor Richardson, The Calculation of Interest, (20 New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Policy 231, 2014).
• Gerald Waltman, Prosecuting ISIS (December 11, 2014).

From elsewhere:

• Steven H. Sholk, A Guide To Election Year Activities of Section 501(c)(3) Organizations,(2014 update, PLI).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Helen A. Alvare, Same-Sex Marriage and the 'Reconceiving' of Children, (Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 829-862, 2014).
• Odetayo Samson, A Critical Assessment of the Validity and Recognition of Same Sex Marriage Under the Nigerian Legal System, (October 16, 2014).
• Ankita Bharadwaj, Adultery- Judicial Interpretation and the Law Under Various Personal Laws in India, (November 22, 2014).
• Valentino Cattelan, Property (Mal) and Credit Relations in Islamic Law: An Explanation of Dayn and the Function of Legal Personality (Dhimma), (Arab Law Quarterly, Forthcoming).
• Christine A. Corcos, The Scrying Game: The First Amendment, State Regulation of the Crafty Sciences, and the Rise of Spiritualism, 1848-1944, (January 16, 2013).
• Ioanna Tourkochoriti, The New Regulation Against Hate Speech in Greece: Strengths and Weaknesses, (Council for European Studies, Reviews & Critical Commentary (CritCom) Columbia University, Forthcoming).
• George K. Yin, The IRS's Misuse of Scarce Compliance Resources in the Exempt Organization Area, (December 5, 2014).

From SmartCILP:

• Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeghi, Filling the Gap In Favor of the Accused: The Approach of Islamic Criminal Law In Light of the Rule No Punishment In Case Of Doubt, [Abstract], 29 Tulane European & Civil Law Forum 147-156 (2014).

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• Khaled A. Beydoun, Between Muslim and White: The Legal Construction of Arab American Identity, 69 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 29 (2013).
• Ayelet Blecher-Prigat, A Constitutional Right to Marry: Israeli Style, (47 Israel Law Review 433 (2014)).
• Sherif Girgis, Windsor: Lochnerizing on Marriage?, (Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 64, No. 3, 2014). 

From SmartCILP:

• J. Michael Martin, Why Congress Adopted the Church Audit Procedures Act and What Must Be Done Now To Restore the Law for Churches and the IRS, 29 Akron Tax Journal 1-27 (2014).

Forthcoming Book:

• Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition, (Oxford University Press, Feb. 2015). (Introduction).