Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Andrew Coan, Dobbs v. Brown, (J. Am. Con. Hist., Forthcoming Vol. 2 (Winter 2024)).
• Kent Greenfield, Using the First Amendment to Save Race-Conscious College Admissions, (Forthcoming, 4 American Journal of Law and Equality __ (2024)).
• Chad G. Marzen, Insurance Law and Religious Belief, (February 5, 2024).
• Rabiat Akande, An Imperial History of Race-Religion in International Law, (American Journal of International Law. 2024;118(1):1-40).
• Clark D. Cunningham & Ute Römer-Barron, Four Reasons the Supreme Court Should Reconsider Its Article III Standing Doctrine, (Forthcoming, Ohio State Law Journal Online, v. 85, 2024).
• Elias Neibart, M.A. v. Rockland County Department of Health, 53 F.4th 29 (2d Cir. 2022), (Harvard Law Review, Vol. 137, No. 3, p. 1050, 2024).
• Liz Tobin-Tyler, The Past and Future of Parental Rights: Politics, Power, Pluralism, and Public Health, (Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2023).
• Mihir Rajamane & Vibha Swaminathan, Navigating Reservations for Transgender Persons Under the Indian Constitution, (in TransForming Rights: How Law shapes Transgender Lives, Community and Identity in India (Forthcoming)).
• Toheeb Alimi, Islamic Finance: an Overview, (January 12, 2024).

From SmartCILP:

• Louis Lopez, The Supreme Court's 2021–22 Term in Review, 37 A.B.A. Journal of Labor & Employment Law 1-24 (2023).
• Kenji Yoshino, Rights of First Refusal, 137 Harvard Law Review 244-289 (2023).
• Ronna Greff Schneider, School Matters, 92 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1-11 (2023).
• Erwin Chemerinsky, Education, the First Amendment and the Constitution,92 University of Cincinnati Law Review 12-30 (2023).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• John Witte, Jr. & Rafael Domingo, The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law, (Oxford University Press, Dec. 2023).
• Maurice Samuels, Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair, (Yale University Press, Feb. 2024).
• Russell Sandberg, Rethinking Law and Religion, (Edward Elgar Publishing, June 2024).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Samuel J. Levine, Law and Redemption: Expounding and Expanding Robert Cover’s Nomos and Narrative, (34 Yale J.L. & Human. 253 (2023)).

From SmartCILP:

• Steven J. Heyman, Transforming Natural Religion: An Essay on Religious Liberty and the Constitution, 48 BYU Law Review 1447-1520 (2023).
• Antony Barone Kolenc, A Juror's Religious Freedom Bill of Rights, 48 BYU Law Review 1521-1580 (2023).
• Martha Minow, Walls or Bridges: Law's Role in Conflicts over Religion and Equal Treatment, 48 BYU Law Review 1581-1618 (2023).

New Books:

• Caroline K. Roberts, Freedom of Religion or Belief in the European Convention on Human Rights: A Reappraisal, (Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2023).
• Judith Hahn, The Sacraments of the Law and the Law of the Sacraments, (Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2023).
• David Carroll Cochran, The Catholic Case against War-- A Brief Guide, (Notre Dame University Press, March 2024).
• A.G. Roeber, Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America, (Fordham University Press, January 2024).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• David A. Skeel, The Corporation as Trinity, (Seattle University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Michael J. Broyde & Shlomo Pill, Human Rights in Judaism, (CSLR Research Paper No. 7.2022-AFF (2022)).
• David S. Cohen, Greer Donley & Rachel Rebouche, Re-Thinking Strategy after Roe, (75 Stanford Law Review Online (Forthcoming 2022)).

Recent Books:

• Mary Ziegler, Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment, (Yale Univ. Press, June 2022).
• Rached Ghannouchi, Public Freedoms in the Islamic State, (Yale Univ. Press, September, 2022).
• Jason C. Bivins, Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion, (Oxford Univ. Press, July 2022).
• Samira Idllalène, Rediscovery and Revival in Islamic Environmental Law: Back to the Future of Nature's Trust, (Cambridge Univ. Press, Sept. 2022).

New Law & Religion Bibliography

The AALS Section on Law and Religion has issued its 2019 Newsletter which includes a 17-page Law and Religion bibliography. Access the full Newsletter here.

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Zalman Rothschild, Free Exercise's Outer Boundary: The Case of Hasidic Education, (119 Colum. L. Rev. F. 200 (2019)).
• Helen Pausacker & Amanda Whiting, Special Issue: Legal Regimes of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Asia, (Australian Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 20, No. 1, Article 1, 2019).
• Stephen Mark Bainbridge, Christianity and Corporate Purpose, (UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 19-10 (2019).
• John Makdisi, Aquinas's Prohibition of Killing Reconsidered, (57 J. Cath. Leg. Stud. 67 (2018)).
• Ricardo Perlingeiro & Amanda da Fonseca de Oliveira, 'Laicidade' in Brazil as a Booster to Religious Freedom, (2019).
• Kathryn Chan, Constitutionalizing the Registered Charity Regime: Reflections on Canada Without Poverty v Canada (AG), (Forthcoming in Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law, summer 2020).
• James Fishman, The Private Foundation Rules at Fifty: How Did We Get Them and Do They Meet Current Needs?, (Pittsburgh Tax Review, Forthcoming).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Mushtaq Ahmad, Revisiting the Discourse on Islam and Human Rights, (November 21, 2019).
• Muhtaq Ahmad, Discovering the Law without a Coherent Legal Theory: The Case of the Council of Islamic Ideology, (November 19, 2019).
• Ashraf Booley, Progressive Realisation of Muslim Family Law: The Case of Tunisia, (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 22, 2019).

Recent Books:

• Nathan Walker, The First Amendment and State Bans on Teachers' Religious Garb: Analyzing the Historic Origins of Contemporary Legal Challenges in the United States, (Routledge, September 4, 2019).
• Jianlin Chen, The Law and Religious Market Theory: China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, (Cambridge Univ. Press, December 2019).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Doug Magendanz, The Fiasco of the Righteous: A Note on Justice, (October 21, 2019).
• Thomas Charles Berg, Life Patents, Religion, and Justice: A Summary of Themes, (From Patents on Life: Religious, Moral, and Social Justice Aspects of Biotechnology and Intellectual Property, (Thomas C. Berg, Roman Cholij, and Simon Ravenscroft eds., Cambridge University Press, 2019, Forthcoming)).
• Sohail Wahedi, The Constitutional Dynamics of Religious Manifestations, (2019, PhD thesis).
• George Letsas, Accommodating What Needn't Be Special, (The Law & Ethics of Human Rights, Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 319–340, 2018).
• Tanner Bean & Robin Fretwell Wilson, When Academic Freedom Collides with Religious Liberty of Religious Universities, (University of St. Thomas Law Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2019).
• Barry Winston Bussey, The Independence of Judicial Conscience, (Journal of Christian Legal Thought, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2019).
• David Crawford, Gender Identity and Nihilism: Some Anthropological Implications of Recent Caselaw, (October 7, 2019).
• Craig A. Stern, A Mistake of Natural Law: Sir William Blackstone and the Anglican Way, University of Bologna Law Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2019)).

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

• Jeffrey A. Redding, A Secular Failure: Sectarianism and Communalism in Shayara Bano v. Union of India, (October 23, 2019).
• Zubair Abbasi, Waqf in Pakistan: Rebirth of a Traditional Institution, (February 1, 2019).
• Samuel Singer, Charity Law Reform in Canada: Moving from Patchwork to Substantive Reform, (Alberta Law Review 57:3, Forthcoming).
• Jeffrey A. Redding, A Secular Failure: Sectarianism and Communalism in Shayara Bano v. Union of India (October 23, 2019).
• Ellen Johnson, Apostasy, Human Rights and Hate Crime in England and Wales: A Mixed Methods Study, (October 24, 2019).
• Md. Ashabur Rahman, Protection of Right to Divorce for Hindu Woman,(October 30, 2019).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• Haider Ala Hamoudi, Islamic Law in a Nutshell, (West Academic Publishing, Nov. 22, 2019).
• Thomas S. Kidd, Who Is An Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisis, (Yale University Press, Sept. 24, 2019).
• Heiner Bielefeldt and Michael Wiener, Religious Freedom Under Scrutiny, (University of Pennsylvania Press, Dec. 2019).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Avishalom Westreich, Assisted Reproduction in Israel: Law, Religion, and Culture, (Brill Research Perspectives: Family law in a Global Society, 2018).
• Steven Douglas Smith, The Case of the Exemption Claimants: Religion, Conscience, and Identity, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-345, 2018).
• Sidney Martin, Oklahoma's 'Bone-Dry' Law and the Fallacy of Legislative Accommodation Under Employment Division v. Smith, (January 12, 2017).
• Joel Harrison, Pope Francis, True Religion, and Religious Liberty, (Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2018).
• Joel Harrison, Sovereignty, (Nicholas Aroney and Ian Leigh (eds), Christianity and Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2018)).
• Nicholas Mignanelli, Is Satan a Transactions Attorney? An Account of Satanic Imagery in Law and Literature, (University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-16, 2018).
• Robert Kahn, Hate Speech, Democratic Legitimacy and the Age of Trump, (17 International and Comparative Law Review 239 (2017)).
• Kheinkor Lamarr, Jurisprudence of Minority Rights: The Changing Contours of Minority Rights, Proceedings of the 8th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences (2018)).

From SSRN (Islamic law):

• Saadiya Suleman, Muslim Personal Law and Gender Equality Concerns in India, (Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, Volume 162, International Conference on Law and Justice (ICLJ 2017)).
• Reza Banakar & Keyvan Ziaee, The Life of the Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran, (Iranian Studies, Vol. 51, 2018, Forthcoming).

Recent Books:

• Kim, Davis, Under God's Authority, (Liberty Counsel, Feb. 2018).
• James Loeffler, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century, (Yale Univ. Press, May 2018).
• Nadine Strossen, Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, (Oxford Univ. Press, May 2018).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Christian Burset, Why Didn't the Common Law Follow the Flag?, (Virginia Law Review, 2019, Forthcoming).
• Loren Mulraine, Religious Freedom: The Original Civil Liberty, (Howard Law Journal, Vol. 61, No. 1, 2017).
• Ryan T. Anderson, Shields, Not Swords, (National Affairs, Number 35, Spring 2018).
• Linda C. McClain, The Rhetoric of Bigotry and Conscience in Battles Over 'Religious Liberty v. LGBT Rights', (Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William S. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming).
• Kate Bezanson, Reconciling Rights in Tension: Freedom of Religion and Equality in Trinity Western University, (December 20, 2017).
• Paul M. Secunda, Foreword: Wedding Cakes, Religion, and Sexual Orientation Discrimination, (19 Marquette Benefits & Social Welfare L. Rev. (forthcoming 2018)).
• Jaclyn L. Neo, Definitional Questions: A Critique of the Definition of Religion and Essential Practice Tests to Allocate Constitutional Protection, (International Journal of Constitutional Law, Forthcoming).
• Arif A. Jamal, Authority and Plurality in Muslim Legal Traditions: The Case of Ismaili Law, (American Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming).

Recent Books:

• Niels Valdemar Vinding, Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe, (Brill, March 12, 2018).
• Christopher McCrudden, Litigating Religions: An Essay on Human Rights, Courts, and Beliefs, (Oxford Univ. Press, March 25, 2018).
• Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, (Univ. California Press, April 2018).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Neil James Foster, Protection of Religious Free Speech in Australia, (Australian Christian Lawyers Conference 2016 - Freedom of Religious Speech).
• Helge Årsheim, Secularist Suspicion and Legal Pluralism at the United Nations, (Religion and Human Rights 11(2): 166-188, 2016).
• Bernard Jackson, Law and Narrative in the Book of Ruth: A Syntagmatic Reading, (August 8, 2016).
• Helge Årsheim, Internal Affairs? Assessing NGO Engagement for Religious Freedom at the United Nations and Beyond, (Anne Stensvold (ed.): Religion, State and the United Nations – Value Politics. London: Routledge, pp. 79-94, 2016).
• Suzanne A. Kim & Katherine A. Thurman, Social Rites of Marriage, (Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Vol. 17, No. 745, 2016).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• Daniel L. Dreisbach, Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers, (Oxford Univ. Press, Dec. 2016).
• Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts, & Michael Jerryson (eds.), Violence and the World's Religious Traditions, (Oxford Univ. Press, Dec. 2016).
• Kent Greenawalt, When Free Exercise and Nonestablishment Conflict, (Harvard Univ. Press,  May 2017).
• Christopher Lane, Surge of Piety: Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life, (Yale Univ. Press, Nov. 2016).

2016 Law and Religion Bibliography Published By AALS Section

The Association of American Law Schools Law & Religion Section has issued its Winter 2016 Newsletter which includes an extensive bibliography of books and articles on law and religion published during the past year.  It also includes news about the AALS section and its members.

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

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

From SmartCILP:

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

Recent Books:

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