Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• Patrick Testa & Walter E. Block, Libertarianism and Circumcision, (Int J Health Policy Manag 3: 33-40, 2014).
• RonNell Andersen Jones, Press Definition and the Religion Analogy, (Harvard Law Review Forum, Forthcoming).
• Hershey H. Friedman, Miriam Gerstein & Paul Fenster, American Exceptionalism or Declinism: Lessons in Leadership and Ethics from the Twelve ‘Minor’ Prophets, (July 1, 2014).
• Toni M. Massaro, Nuts and Seeds: Mitigating Third-Party Harms of Religious Exemptions, Post-Hobby Lobby, (92 Denver University Law Review ___ (2015, Forthcoming)).
• Ira C. Lupu, Hobby Lobby and the Dubious Enterprise of Religious Exemptions, (Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2015, Forthcoming in Symposium, Religious Accommodation in the Age of Civil Rights).
• Susannah William Pollvogt, Brief of Amicus Curiae Susannah W. Pollvogt in Henry v. Himes (6th Cir.), (July 18, 2014).
• John D. Inazu, More is More: Strengthening Free Exercise, Speech, and Association, (Minnesota Law Review, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Ihsan Ali Alkhatib, Shariah Law and American Family Courts: Judicial Inconsistency on the Talaq and Mahr Issues in Wayne County, Michigan, 14 Journal of Law In Society 83-105 (2013).
• Scott W. Gaylord, For-Profit Corporations, Free Exercise, and the HHS Mandate, 91 Washington University Law Review 589-657 (2014).

Recent Book:

• Ira C. Lupu & Robert W. Tuttle, Secular Government, Religious People, (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Aug., 2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Steven H. Resnicoff, Circumcision Safety: A Case Study in the Failure of Leaderships, (Looking Forward, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 1-7, June 2014).
• Archana Mishra, Rights in Separate Property of Hindu Female – Challenge to Acquire a New Self , (June 20, 2014).
• Hendrik Gommer, The Biological Foundations of Global Ethics and Law, (Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (ARSP), 2014, Vol. 100, nr. 2, p. 151-175).
• Frederick Mark Gedicks, Religion, Meaning, Life, Truth, (San Diego Law Review, 2014, Forthcoming).
• Richard W. Garnett, Accommodation, Establishment, and Freedom of Religion, (67 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 39 (2014)).
• Steve Sanders, Is the Full Faith and Credit Clause Still 'Irrelevant' to Same-Sex Marriage?: Toward a Reconsideration of the Conventional Wisdom, (Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 89, No. 1, 2014).
• Steve Sanders, Mini-DOMAs as Political Process Failures: The Case for Heightened Scrutiny of State Anti-Gay Marriage Amendments, (Northwestern University Law Review Online (June 2014)).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Amir B. Izadyar & Feroza Ragnath, A New Perspective of Benevolent Loan, QARD Al-Hassan, Using Upfront Payment ‘Mesbah Point’, (International Journal of Economics 1:3, pp. 45-58, 2014).
• Jamhari Makruf, Jamhari & Iim Halimatussa'diyah, Shari’a and Regional Governance in Indonesia: A Study of Four Provinces, (Australian Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 15, No. 1, Article 4, 2014).

From SmartCILP:

• Mark Goldfeder, The Story of Jewish Polygamy, [Abstract], 26 Columbia Journal of Gender & Law 234-315 (2014).
• Peter T. Leeson, "God Damn": The Law and Economics of Monastic Malediction, 30 Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 193-216 (2014).
• Marin Lim, The Sanity of Faith: What Religious Fundamentalism Teaches About the Insanity Defense and the First Amendment, [Abstract], 17 New Criminal Law Review 252-311 (2014).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Benjamin L. Berger, Poetry, Mercy, and the Phenomenology of Justice, (Forthcoming in Ehud Ben Zvi, Claudia V. Camp, David M. Gunn and Aaron W. Hughes, eds., Poets, Prophets, and Texts in Play: Studies in Biblical Poetry and Prophecy in Honour of Francis Landy (London: T & T Clark, 2014)).
• Marie A. Failinger, Twenty-Five Years of Law and Religion Scholarship: Some Reflections, (Touro Law Review, Vol. 30, p. 9 (2014)).
• Wojciech Sadurski, Searching for Illicit Motives: Constitutional Theory of Freedom of Speech, Equal Protection, and Separation of State and Religion, (Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 14/61, July 2014).
• Michael J. T. McMillen & Sheikh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, Islamic Finance and the Shari'Ah: The Dow Jones Fatwa and Permissible Variance as Studies in Letheanism and Legal Change, (June 23, 2014).
• András Koltay, The Appearance of the Clear and Present Danger Doctrine In Hungarian Hate Speech Laws and the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, (June 23, 2014).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• Matthew Stewart, Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic, (W.W. Norton & Co., July 2014).
• Al-Qadi al-Nuʿman, Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory, (Edited and translated by Devin Stewart), (NYU Press, Jan. 2015).
• J. Judd Owen, Making Religion Safe for Democracy: Transformation from Hobbes to Tocqueville, (Cambridge University Press, Jan. 2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Zvi H. Triger, Golda Meir's Reluctant Feminism: The Pre-State Years, (Israel Studies, 19.3 (Fall 2014), Forthcoming).
• Frederick Mark Gedicks & Andrew Koppelman, Invisible Women: Why an Exemption for Hobby Lobby Would Violate the Establishment Clause, (67 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 51 (2014)).
• Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Reconciling Liberalism and Judaism? Human Rights in Israel, (in Jo Carby-Hall (ed.), Essays on Human Rights: A Celebration of the Life of Dr Janusz Kochanowski (Warsaw: Jus et Lex Foundation, 2014), pp. 136-163).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson, Marriage of Necessity: Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty Protections, (Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS14-35 (June 2014)).

From SmartCILP:

• David Pimentel & Brian Anderson, Judicial Independence In Postconflict Iraq: Establishing the Rule of Law In an Islamic Constitutional Democracy, 46 George Washington International Law Review 29-54 (2013).
• Sadiq Reza, Due Process In Islamic Criminal Law, 46 George Washington International Law Review 1-27 (2013).

Recent Articles of Interest

From  SSRN:

• Howard Kislowicz, Faithful Translations? Cross-Cultural Communications in Canadian Religious Freedom Litigation, (Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 52(1), 2014 Forthcoming).
• Sylvie Langlaude, Parental Disputes, Religious Upbringing and Welfare in English Law and the ECHR., ((2014) 9(1) Religion and Human Rights: An International Journal 1-30).
• Aaron R. Petty, 'Faith, However Defined': Reassessing JFS and the Judicial Conception of 'Religion', (6 Elon Law Review 117 (2014)).
• Ilan Fuchs & Aviad Yehiel Hollander, National Movements and International Law: Rabbi Shlomo Goren's Understanding of International Law, (Journal of Law and Religion, Forthcoming).
• Faisal Kutty, Islamic Law and Adoptions, (Forthcoming in Robert L. Ballard et al., The Intercountry Adoption Debate: Dialogues Across Disciplines (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014)).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• K. Benson, The Chaplaincy Exception In International Humanitarian Law: "American-Born Cleric" Anwar al-Awlaki and the Global War on Terror, 20 Buffalo Human Rights Law Review 1-36 (2013-2014).
• Charles J. Russo, Religious Freedom in the United States: "When You Come To a Fork In the Road, Take It", 38 University of Dayton Law Review 363-400 (2013).
• Jennifer B. Scheu, A First Amendment Objection To the Affordable Care Act's Individual Mandate, 79 Brooklyn Law Review 953-984 (2014).
• Mark Strasser, Conscience Clauses and the Placement of Children, 15 Journal of Law & Family Studies 1-18 (2013).
• Lisa A. Runquist & David T. Ball, Whither the Parsonage Allowance?  Will It Survive the Most Recent Attack?, Business Law Today (June 2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Valerie J. Munson, Fraud on the Faithful? The Charitable Intentions of Members of Religious Congregations and the Peculiar Body of Law Governing Religious Property in the United States, (Rutgers Law Journal Vol. 44, No. 3, 2014).
• Bruce Ledewitz, Experimenting with Religious Liberty: The Quasi-Constitutional Status of Religious Exemptions, 6 Elon Law Review (2014).
• Kevin P. Lee, Emanuel Levinas on Hegel's Antigone: Levinas and the Problem of Modernity, (May 30, 2014). 
• Sara L. Ainsworth, Amicus Curiae Brief: Stormans, Inc. v. Selecky, (Hastings Women's Law Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 303-37, Summer 2013).
• Tabatha Abu El-Haj, All Assemble: Order and Disorder in Law, Politics, and Culture, (University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2014 Forthcoming).
• Seema Mohapatra, Time to Lift the Veil of Inequality in Health Care Coverage: Using Corporate Law to Defend the Affordable Care Act, (May 23, 2014).
• Alice E. Marwick & Ross W. Miller, Online Harassment, Defamation, and Hateful Speech: A Primer of the Legal Landscape, (Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy Report No. 2, June 10, 2014).
• Nancy J. Knauer, Navigating a Post-Windsor World: The Promise and Limits of Marriage Equality, (Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Vol. 16, 2014, Forthcoming).

From SSRN (Islamic law):

• Hussein Elasrag, Corporate Governance in Islamic Financial Institutions, (May 26, 2014).
• Muhammad Munir, Rights of Children in Islamic Law: A Review of Selected Literature, (May 29, 2014).
• Timur Kuran, Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf, (Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 171, June 12, 2014).

From SmartCILP:

• Julie Maher, Eweida and Others: A New Era for Article 9?, 63 International & Comparative Law Quarterly 213-233 (2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• François Foret, Democratic Representation and Religion. Differences and Convergences between the European Parliament and the US House of Representatives, (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2014/58 (2014)).
• Paul T. Babie, Private Property in Post Secular Law: An Introductory Foray, (2013 University of Queensland Law Journal 32 (2) p238).
• D. Brian Dennison, The Resonance of Christian Political Conceptions within International Humanitarian Law, (Uganda's Paper Series on International Humanitarian Law, 2013).
• Ryan M. Hrobak & Robin Fretwell Wilson, Emergency Contraceptives or 'Abortion-Inducing' Drugs? Empowering Women to Make Informed Decisions, (Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 71, Issue 2, 2014).
• Brett G. Scharffs, Our Fractured Attitude Towards Corporate Conscience, (March 12, 2014).
• Sarah Schiesz, Hezbollah: Before and after the Syrian War, (May 12, 2014).
• Samuel Wolf Calhoune, Justice Lewis F. Powell's Baffling Vote in Roe v. Wade, (71 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 925 ( 2014).
• Meg Mary Margaret Penrose, Unbreakable Vows: Same-Sex Marriage and the Fundamental Right to Divorce, (58 Villanova Law Review 169 (2013)).
• Muhammad Munir, The Law of Khul' in Islamic Law and the Legal System of Pakistan: The Sunnah of the Prophet or Judicial Ijtihad?, (May 24, 2014).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Mark Goldfeder, The Adoption of Children In Judaism and In Israel; A Conceptual and Practical Review, 22 Cardozo Journal of International & Comparative Law 321-353 (2014).
• Daniel Ross Goodman, Ethical Falsehood: Towards A Moral Values Paradigm In False-Speech Adjudication, [Abstract], 55 South Texas Law Review 71-112 (2013).
• Austin R. Nimocks, History and Recent Developments in Same-Sex Marriage Litigation, Federalist Society State Courts Project White Paper (May 28, 2014).
• Brian J. Grim, Greg Clark & Robert Edward Snyder, Is Religious Freedom Good for Business?: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis, 10 Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, Article 4, 2014.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jeffrey A. Redding, Marriage ≠ Marriage: Querying the Relevance of Equality to the Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships, (University of Miami Law Review, Forthcoming).
• D. Brian Dennison, Faith Frieda Letacie & Heather M. Pate, Confronting Child Sacrifice in Uganda: A Multi-Layered View, (Kabarak University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Kevin J. Murphy, Administering the Ministerial Exception Post-Hosanna-Tabor: Why Contract Claims Should Not Be Barred, (Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2014).
• Brian D. Galle, How Do Nonprofit Firms Respond to Tax Policy?, (May 29, 2014).

From SmartCILP:

• Elizabeth A. Clark, Liberalism In Decline: Legislative Trends Limiting Religious Freedom In Russia and Central Asia, 22 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 297-342 (2013).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Paul Horwitz, 'A Troublesome Right': The 'Law' in Dworkin's Treatment of Law and Religion, (Boston University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Michael A. Helfand, Between Law and Religion: Procedural Challenges to Religious Arbitration Awards, (Chicago-Kent Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Edward C. Lyons, Causation and Complicity: The HHS Contraceptive Mandate and Asymmetrical Burdens on Free Exercise, (55 South Texas Law Review 229 (2014), Forthcoming).
• Aram Sinnreich, Sharing in Spirit: Kopimism and the Digital Eucharist, (May 14, 2014).
• Kenneth K. Ching, Beauty and Ugliness in Offer and Acceptance, (May 23, 2014).

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

• David B. Kopel, Ancient Hebrew Militia Law, (Denver University Law Review, Vol. 90, 2013).
• Patrick Parkinson, Book Review: 'Managing Family Justice in Diverse Societies' (Eds Maclean and Eekelaar), (Australian Journal of Family Law, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 270-75, 2013).
• Andrew F. March, Constitutional Authority, (Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law, Ruud Peters and Peri Bearman, eds., pp. 179-192 (2014)).
• Brandy G. Robinson, Religiosity in Constitutions and the Status of Minority Rights, (March 6, 2014).
• Dawood I. Ahmed & Tom Ginsburg, Constitutional Islamization and Human Rights: The Surprising Origin and Spread of Islamic Supremacy in Constitutions, Virginia Journal of International Law, Forthcoming.
• Mostafa Beheshti Seresht & Hasba Haj Najafi, Residential Mortgage Crisis – An Islamic Finance Perspective, (May 8, 2014).
• Muhammad Munir, The Share of Orphaned Grandchild under Islamic Law and Pakistani Legal System: A Re-Evaluation of Representational Succession in Section 4 of the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961, (May 10, 2014).
• Richard Ashby Wilson, Inciting Genocide with Words, (Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2015, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Karen Gantt, Balancing Women's Health and Religious Freedom Under the ACA., [Abstract], 17 Quinnipiac Health Law Journal 1-44 (2013-2014).
• Sarah Lipton-Lubet, Contraceptive Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act: Dueling Narratives and Their Policy Implications, 22 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 343-385 (2014).
• Mark A. Strasser, A Constitutional Balancing In Need of Adjustment: On Defamation, Breaches of Confidentiality, and the Church, [Abstract], 12 First Amendment Law Review 325-384 (2013).
• Alan J. Meese & Nathan B. Oman, Hobby Lobby, Corporate Law, and the Theory of the Firm: Why For-Profit Corporations Are RFRA Persons,127 Harvard Law Review Forum 273 (May 20, 2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Chaim Gans, Jewish/Palestinian Self-Determination and Citizenship in Israel/Palestine, (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2014/35, 2014).
• Kyle Langvardt, The Lawless Rule of the Norm in the Government Religious Speech Cases, (20 Wash. & Lee J. Civil Rts. & Soc. Just. 405 (2014)).
• Neil James Foster, Christian Youth Camp Liable for Declining Booking from Homosexual Support Group, (April 21, 2014).
• James M. Oleske, The Public Meaning of RFRA versus Legislators' Understanding of RLPA: A Response to Professor Laycock, (67 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 125 (2014)).
• Edward C. Lyons, Slaughter of the Innocents: Justification, Excuse, and the Principle of Double Effect, (Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law Vol 18:2, Fall 2013).
• Ellen D. Katz, Hobby Lobby and the Pathology of Citizens United, (Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, Forthcoming).
• Christie Stancil Matthews, Missing Faith in Batson: Continued Discrimination Against African Americans Through Religion-Based Peremptory Challenges,(2013).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Jolyn Ang, Are Sukuk Truly Islamic?, (October 18, 2013).
• Amjad Hussain & Humaira Afzal, Exploring the Issue of 'Run-Away Women' in Pakistan - A Call for Social and Legal Change, (Journal of Law and Social Research (JLSR) No.4 (2013) pp. 59-72).
• Muhammad Munir, Reinventing the Islamic Law of Inheritance: The Share of Orphaned Grandchild in Islam and Pakistani Legal System, (April 29, 2014).
• Adis Duderija, Islam and Gender in the Thought of a Critical-Progressive Muslim Scholar Activist Ziba Mir Hosseini, (Journal of Islam and Christian Muslim Relations, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Tulsa Law Review Book Review Issue (Vol 49, Issue 2, 2013) (includes a number of book reviews of interest).
• Fifty States Under God. Articles by Paul Benjamin Linton, Robert F. Williams, Mary Jane Morrison and Christopher Hammons. 7 University of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy 103-239 (2013).
• Hadley Arkes, Recasting Religious Freedom, First Things (June/July 2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Muhammad Munir, Some Reflections on the Story of Banu Quraydha: A Re-Evaluation, (May 1, 2014).
• Akiva A. Miller, The Policing of Religious Marriage Prohibitions in Israel: Religion, State, and Information Technology, (April 30, 2014).
• Douglas Laycock, Imaginary Contradictions: A Reply to Professor Oleske, (67 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 89 (2014)).
• Robert J. Delahunty, Does Animal Welfare Trump Religious Liberty? The Danish Ban on Kosher and Halal Butchering, (U of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-19, 2014).
• Helen M. Alvare, A 'Bare…Purpose to Harm'? Marriage and Catholic Conscience Post-Windsor, (George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 14-14, 2014).
• Meghan J. Ryan, Finality and Rehabilitation, (4 Wake Forest J.L. & Pol'y 121 (2014)).
• Patrick McKinley Brennan, Implementing Religious Law in Modern Nation-States: Reflections from the Catholic Tradition, (Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2014-1008, 2014).
• Linda C. McClain, Common and Uncommon Families and the American Constitutional Order, (67 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 19 (2014)).
• Patrick Parkinson & Nicholas Aroney, The Territory of Marriage: Constitutional Law, Marriage Law and Family Policy in the ACT Same Sex Marriage Case, (May 9, 2014).
• Jerg Gutmann & Stefan Voigt, The Rule of Law and Constitutionalism in Muslim Countries, (May 8, 2014).
• Amy L. Moore, Rife with Latent Power: Exploring the Reach of the IRS to Determine Tax-Exempt Status According to Public Policy Rationale in an Era of Judicial Deference, (South Texas Law Review, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Drew Stevens, By the Power Vested in Me? Licensing Religious Officials to Solemnize Marriage in the Age of Same-Sex Marriage, 63 Emory Law Journal 979 (2014).
• Mark Goldfeder, Not All Dogs Go To Heaven: Judaism's Lessons In Beastly Morality, [Abstract], 20 Animal Law 107-118 (2013).
• Mark L. Rienzi, The Case for Religious Exemptions--Whether Religion Is Special Or Not (Reviewing: Brian Leiter, Why Tolerate Religion?; Andrew Koppelman, Defending American Religious Neutrality), 127 Harvard Law Review 1395-1418 (2014).
• Emerging Issues in First Amendment Jurisprudence: Interpreting the Relationship Between Religion and the State in the Modern Age. Articles by Alycee Lane, Bruce Ledewitz, Aaron R. Petty, Mark Strasser and Harry F. Tepker. 6 Elon Law Review 1-187 (2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Bernard M. Levinson, La scoperta goethiana della versione ‘originale’ dei Dieci Comandamenti e la sua influenza sulla critica biblica: Il mito del particolarismo ebraico e dell’universalismo tedesco (The Impact of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Discovery of the 'Original' Version of the Ten Commandments upon Biblical Scholarship: The Myth of Jewish Particularism and German Universalism), (in Il roveto ardente: Scritti sull’ebraismo Tedesco in memoria di Francesca Y. Albertini, Edited by Irene Kajon, Lithos Editrice, 2013).
• Thad C. Eagles, Free Exercise, Inc.: A New Framework for Adjudicating Corporate Religious Liberty Claims, (New York University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Ping Xiong, Freedom of Religion in China Under the Current Legal Framework and Foreign Religious Bodies, (Brigham Young University Law Review, No. 3, 2013).
• Frederick Schauer, On the Utility of Religious Toleration, (Criminal Law and Philosophy, 2014, Forthcoming).
• Paolo Lobba, A European Halt to Laws Against Genocide Denial? In Perinçek v. Switzerland, the European Court of Human Rights Finds that a Conviction for Denial of Armenian ‘Genocide’ Violates Freedom of Expression, (European Criminal Law Review, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (2014), 59-77).
• Pawel Niszczota, Religious Prohibitions and Investment: The Effect of the Islamic Moral Code on Investment in Foreign Debt Securities, (January 31, 2014).
• Paolo Lobba, Holocaust Denial Before the European Court of Human Rights: Evolution of an Exceptional Regime, (Oxford University Press, European Journal of International Law, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Lara Cartwright-Smith, Benefit or Burden? Religious Employers and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Contraception Coverage Mandate, [LEXIS Advance Link],18 NEXUS 29-56 (2012-2013).
• 19th Annual International Law and Religion Symposium: "Religion, Democracy, and Civil Society." Articles by Shaun de Freitas, Augusto Zimmermann, Frank S. Ravitch, Neville Rochow, Jaview Saldana Serrano, Aldir Guedes Soriano and Pink Xiong. 2013 Brigham Young University Law Review 421-617.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Asma Mushtaq, Akseer Ahmad Abbasi, Maroona Nazir, & Shagufta Omar, Inheritance, (Inheritance, Women Aid Trust, January 2014).
• Larry Catá Backer, The Crisis of Secular Liberalism and the Constitutional State in Comparative Perspective: Religion, Rule of Law, and Democratic Organization of Religion Privileging States, (Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 48, 2015).
• Robert W. McGee, Attitudes on the Ethics of Tax Evasion: A Survey of Philosophy Professors, (April 14, 2014).
• Robert W. McGee, Gender and the Ethics of Tax Evasion: An Empirical Study of 82 Countries, (April 14, 2014).
• Robert W. McGee & Geoff A. Goldman, Ethics and Tax Evasion: A Survey of South African Opinion, (April 14, 2014).
• Nelson Tebbe, Associations and the Constitution: Four Questions About Four Freedoms, (North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 3, 2014).
• Paul Horwitz, More 'Vitiating Paradoxes': A Reply to Steven D. Smith — And Smith, (Pepperdine Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Teresa Hernandez & Robert W. McGee, The Ethical Perceptions of Bribe Taking in Four Muslim Countries, (Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2014).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Sarah Barringer Gordon, The First Disestablishment: Limits On Church Power and Property Before the Civil War, 162 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 307-372 (2014).
• Lynn M. Daggett, "Minor Adjustments" and Other Not-So-Minor Obligations: Section 504, Private Religious K-12 Schools, and Students With Disabilities, 52 University of Louisville Law Review 301-331 (2014).
• Religion and Family Planning Under the U.S. Constitution. Articles by Colleen Connell, Lorie Chaiten, Richard Muniz, Steven H. Resnicoff and Tom Judge. 15 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law 1-44 (2013).
• Dina Porat (ed.), Antisemitism Worldwide 2013, European Jewish Congress, April 27, 2014.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Anna Su, Book Review: Separation Anxiety: The End of American Religious Freedom?, (Constitutional Commentary, Forthcoming).
• Jonathan G. Burns, The Banking Sector in Post-Revolution Egypt: Is Islam the Solution?, (29 Banking & Finance Law Review 319, No. 2, 2014).
• Thomas A. Schweitzer, Is Prayer Constitutional at Municipal Council Meetings?, (27 Mun. Law. 26 (2013)).
• Levi Cooper, Bitter Herbs in Hasidic Galicia, (JSIJ 12 (2013), 1-40).
• Zia Ullah Ranjah & Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema, Protection of Legal Status of Women in Pakistan: An Analysis of the Role of Supreme Court, (International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 4, 2014).
• Danièle Hervieu-Léger & Janet Bennion, The Meanings of Marriage in the West: Law, Religion and 'Nature', (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2014/38, 2014).
• Dale Carpenter, Windsor Products: Equal Protection from Animus, (Supreme Court Review (2014 Forthcoming)).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Marvin Lim, A New Approach to the Ethics of Life: The 'Will to Live' in Lieu of Traditionalists' Notion of Natural/Rational and Progressives' Autonomy/ Consciousness, (April 4, 2014).
• Arjya B. Majumdar, Zakat, Dana and Corporate Social Responsibility, (April 6, 2014).
• Corinna Lain, God, Civic Virtue, and the American Way: Reconstructing Engel, (Stanford Law Review, Vol. 67 (2015 Forthcoming)).
• Hannah Lepow, Speaking Up: The Challenges to Section 501(C)(3)'s Political Activities Prohibition in a Post-Citizens United World, (Columbia Business Law Review, Forthcoming).
• R. Craig Wood & William E. Thro, Originalism and the State Education Clauses: The Louisiana Voucher Case as an Illustration, (Education Law Reporter, 2014, Forthcoming).
• Jay Ulfelder, Using the 'Wisdom of (Expert) Crowds' to Forecast Mass Atrocities, (March 27, 2014).
• Ellen P. Aprill, Nonprofits and Political Activity: Lessons from England and Canada, (142 Tax Notes 1114 (2014); Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2014-9).

From SmartCILP:

• Tom Johnson, The Preconstruction of Witness Testimony: Law and Social Discourse in England Before the Reformation, 32 Law & History Review 127-147 (2014).
• Turan Kayaoglu, Giving an Inch Only to Lose A Mile: Muslim States, Liberalism, and Human Rights in the United Nations, 36 Human Rights Quarterly 61-89 (2014).
• John Rhodes, Up In Smoke: The Religious Freedom Restoration Act and Federal Marijuana Prosecutions, [Abstract], 38 Oklahoma City University Law Review 319-365 (2013).
• Stefan K. Stantchev, "Apply to Muslims What Was Said of the Jews:" Popes and Canonists Between a Taxonomy of Otherness and Infidelitas, [Abstract], 32 Law & History Review 65-96 (2014).
• Conference on Religious Legal Theory: RTL IV: Expanding the Conversation. Foreword by Samuel J. Levine; articles by Marie A. Failinger, Ronald R. Garet, Fuat Gursozlu, Randy Lee, G.J. McAleer, Geoffrey P. Miller and Mary Szto. 30 Touro Law Review 1-126 (2014).
• Discrimination Against Muslim Americans in a Post-9/11 World. Articles by Amara S. Chaudhry-Kravitz, Nancy Hollander, Hamid Khan and Asma Uddin. 20 Washington & Lee Journal of Civil Rights & Social Justice 3-81 (2013).
• The Freedom of the Church in the Modern Era. Prologue by Steven D. Smith; articles by Richard C. Schragger, Micah Schwartzman, Richard W. Garnett, Paul Horwitz, Frederick Mark Gedicks, Andrew Koppelman, Patrick McKinley Brennan, Alan Brownstein, Thomas C. Berg, John D. Inazu, Robert K. Vischer, Michael A. Helfand, Robert F. Cohran, Jr. and Kent Greenawalt; responses by Thomas A. Smith and Frederick Mark Gedicks. 21 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 1-486 (2013).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• John D. Haskell, The Traditions of Modernity within International Law and Governance: Christianity, Liberalism and Marxism, (Howard University School of Law, Human Rights and Globalization Law Review (Fall 2014, Forthcoming)).
• Muhammad Munir, Islamisation or De-Islamisation?: De-Islamisation of the Law of Evidence under the Disguise of Islamisation by General Ziaulhaq in Pakistan, (March 23, 2014). 

From SmartCILP:

• Evelyn M. Aswad, Rashad Hussain & M. Arsalan Suleman, Why the United States Cannot Agree To Disagree on Blasphemy Laws, 32 Boston University International Law Journal 119-146 (2014).
• Ann Neumann, The Limits of Autonomy: Force-Feedings in Catholic Hospitals and In Prisons, 58 New York Law School Law Review 305-318 (2013/2014).
• Ilias Trispiotis, The Duty To Respect Religious Feelings: Insights From European Human Rights Law, [Abstract], 19 Columbia Journal of European Law 499-551 (2013).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Samuel J. Levine, Foreword: Conference on Religious Legal Theory: RLT IV: Expanding the Conversation, (30 Touro L. Rev. 1 (2014)).
• Dallan F. Flake, Image is Everything: Corporate Branding and Religious Accommodation in the Workplace, (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 163, 2014-15).
• Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Rumors of the Sharia Threat are Greatly Exaggerated: What American Judges Really Do with Islamic Family Law in Their Courtrooms, (New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 245, 2013).
• John M. A. DiPippa, God and Guns: The Free Exercise of Religion Problems of Regulating Guns in Churches and Other Houses of Worship, (March 21, 2014).
• John M. Breen & Lee J. Strang, The Forgotten Jurisprudential Debate: Catholic Legal Thought's Response to Legal Realism, (March 24, 2014).
• Micah Schwartzman, Religion as a Legal Proxy, (San Diego Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Micah Schwartzman, Religion, Equality, and Public Reason, (Boston University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Yaniv Heled, On Patenting Human Organisms or How the Abortion Wars Feed into the Ownership Fallacy, (Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 36, 2014, Forthcoming).
• Jessica Feinberg, The Survival of Non-Marital Relationship Statuses in the Same-Sex Marriage Era: A Proposal, (Temple Law Review, Vol. 87, Forthcoming).

From SSRN (Affordable Care Act and Religious Freedom):

• Heidi Muller, Hobson's Choice: For-Profit Corporations and the Exercise of Religion, (November 17, 2013).
• Scott Harrington, No Soup for You! Religion in the Post-PPACA Era, (March 18, 2014).
• Zoe Robinson, The Contraception Mandate and the Forgotten Constitutional Question, (Wisconsin Law Review, Forthcoming 2014).
• Toni M. Massaro, Nuts and Seeds: Disclosure of Religious Exemptions, (Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 14-10 (March 2014)).

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

• Lotem Perry-Hazan, From the Constitution to the Classroom: Educational Freedom in Antwerp's Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Schools, (Journal of School Choice, 2014, Forthcoming).
• Lotem Perry-Hazan, Court-Led Educational Reforms in Political Third Rails: The Cases of Israeli Haredi Schools' Curricula and Admission Policies, (March 18, 2014).
• Jill Marshall, The Legal Recognition of Personality: Full Face Veils and Permissible Choices, (10 International Journal of Law in Context 64-80 (2014)).
• Robert J. Delahunty, The Returning Warrior and the Limits of Just War Theory, (Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, 2014).

From SmartCILP:

• Mark W. Cordes, The First Amendment and Religion After Hosanna-Tabor, 41 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 299-355 (2014).
• Alvaro Hasani, Compatibility of Democracy and Islam...Or the Lack Thereof: A Closer Look At Whether the "Arab Spring" Was Ever Capable of Culminating Into a Viable Democracy in the Arab World, 15 Scholar 715-743 (2013).
• Ken Matheny, The Disappearance of Labor Unions and the Social Encyclicals of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XIV, 23 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 1-35 (2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Daniel Schick, Keeping Up with the Principle of Neutrality: Why Courts Should Not Extend Elmbrook's Mistaken Establishment Clause Analysis, (Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 84, Forthcoming).
• Philip Hamburger, Equality and Exclusion: Religious Liberty and Political Process, (March 10, 2014).
• Ronan McCrea, European Law and the Prohibition of the Veil, (March 4, 2011).
• Andra le Roux-Kemp, A Question of Life and Death, (Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 2013 46(1), 74-89).
• W. Cole Durham, Robert Theron Smith & William C. Duncan, A Comparative Analysis of Laws Pertaining to Same-Sex Unions, (March 14, 2014).
• James E. Wheeler, God, Guns and Others: Why Restrictions on Carrying Firearms in Church Conflict with a Moral Duty to Defend Others, (March 11, 2014).
• Benjamin L. Berger, Belonging to Law: Religious Difference, Secularism, and the Conditions of Civic Inclusion, (Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16 (2013)).
• Benjamin I. Berger, The Virtues of Law in the Politics of Religious Freedom, (Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2014).
• Malick W. Ghachem, Religious Liberty and the Financial War on Terror, (First Amendment Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2013).

From SmartCILP:

• Max Guirguis, A Coat of Many Colors: The Religious Neutrality Doctrine From Everson to Hein, [Lexis link],  43 Stetson Law Review 67-118 (2013).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Ratna Kapur, A Leap of Faith: The Construction of Hindu Majoritarianism in Secular Law, (113 (1) South Atlantic Quarterly 109-128 (2014)).
• Pamela Foohey, Perspectives on Religious Organizations' Reorganizations, (87 American Bankruptcy Law Journal (2014 Forthcoming)).
• Mary E. McMahon, May I Be Excused? Smith's Individualized Governmental Assessment Exception and the HHS Mandate, (Journal of Catholic Legal Studies, 2014).
• Eric Segall, Silence is Golden: Moments of Silence, Legislative Prayers, and the Establishment Clause, (Northwestern University Law Review Online, Vol. 108, 2014).
• Tyler Antone Le Fevre, Gender and the Institutional Nature of Marriage, (March 11, 2014).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Evelyn Lincoln & Pascale Rihouet, Brands of Piety, 47 University of California Davis Law Review 679-703 (2013).
• USCIRF Policy Brief, Prisoners of Belief: Individuals Jailed under Blasphemy Laws, (March 2014).

Recent Books:

• J. Brent Walker, What a Touchy Subject!: Religious Liberty and Church-State Separation, (Nurturing Faith Inc., February 2014).
• John W. Compton, The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution,  (Harvard University Press, March 2014).
• Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, (Yale University Press, Feb. 2014).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Julia Chamberlin & Amos N. Guiora, Polygamy: Not 'Big Love' But Significant Harm, (Women's Rights Law Reporter, Rutgers University School of Law (2014 Forthcoming)).
• Sean T. Murphy, No More Christian Doctors, (February 24, 2014).
• Michael A. Helfand & Barak D. Richman, The Challenge of Co-Religionist Commerce, (Duke Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Sahar F. Aziz, Veiled Discrimination, (March 3, 2014).
• Kenneth Lasson, Sacred Cows, Holy Wars: Exploring the Limits of Law in the Regulation of Raw Milk and Kosher Meat, (March 6, 2014).
• Rabia Belt, When God Demands Blood: Unusual Minds and the Troubled Juridical Ties of Religion, Madness, and Culpability, (March 1, 2014).
• Teemu Ruskola, What is a Corporation? Liberal, Confucian, and Socialist Theories of Enterprise Organization (and State, Family, and Personhood), (Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 37, p. 637, 2014).

From SSRN (non-US law):

• Richard Moon, Religious Accommodation and Its Limits: The Recent Controversy at York University, (Constitutional Forum, Vol. 23, Forthcoming).
• Nathalie Des Rosiers, Free Religions or Freedom from Religion? Canada, Federalism and Religion, (February 23, 2014).
• Jeroen Temperman, Recognition, Registration, and Autonomy of Religious Groups: European Approaches and Their Human Rights Implications, (in: David Kirkham (ed.), State Responses to Religious Minorities (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 151-165).
• AliReza ShakarBeigia, Peyman Akbari & Ghodrat Heydari, Expansion of Citizenship Rights Based on Religious Teachings Jurisprudence and Law, (Scientific Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences (2014) 3(2) 48-53).
• Michelle Biddulph & Dwight G. Newman, Eweida v United Kingdom, (Australian International Law Journal, Vol 20, 2013: 183-188).
• Hanna Lerner, Permissive Constitutions, Democracy, and Religious Freedom in India, Indonesia, Israel, and Turkey, (World Politics, Volume 65, Issue 4 (October 2013), pp. 609-655).
• Engy Abdelkader, Myanmar's Democracy Struggle: The Impact of Communal Violence Upon Rohingya Women and Youth, (Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, 2014).

From SmartCILP:

• Michael W. McConnell, Why Protect Religious Freedom? (Reviewing Brian Leiter, Why Tolerate Religion?), 123 Yale Law Journal 770-810 (2013).
• Capt. Malcolm H. Wilkerson (U.S. Army), Picking Up where Katcoff Left Off: Developing a Framework for a Constitutional Military Chaplaincy, 66 Oklahoma Law Review 245-286 (2014).
• Tung Yin, Were Timothy McVeigh and the Unabomber the Only White Terrorists?: Race, Religion, and the Perception of Terrorism, 4 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Reveiw 33-87 (2013).