Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Yaoharee Lahtee, Marginal Hegemony in Thailand: Satire, the Muslim Minority, and the Politics of Power-literate Critique, (May 13, 2026).
• Shai Stern, From Classroom to Courtroom and Back: Exit, Voice, and the Struggle Over Public Education in America, (74 Buffalo Law Review 307 (2026)).
• Christopher C. Lund, The Wit and Wisdom of Douglas Laycock, (Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 41, p. 1, 2026 (festschrift)).
• Guy Baldwin, Positive Obligations to Protect the Population under Human Rights Law, (Judicial Review, volume 30, issue 3, 2025).
• Anna Lukina, Evil Law in St. Thomas Aquinas's Philosophy, (LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 7/2026).
• Rachel Kincaid, Deliberately Silenced, (December 31, 2025).
• Thomas Wuil Joo, A Long Story: Queues, Dreadlocks, and Cycles in Civil Rights History, (34 Asian Am. L. J. --- (forthcoming 2027)).
• Bernard W. Bell, Just Talk: Professional Regulation and Medical Malpractice Litigation After Chiles v. Salazar, (Rutgers Law School Research Paper Forthcoming).
• Mimi Marziani & Patrick Archer, Weaponized Oversight: Texas’s Escalating Campaign Against Nonprofit Advocacy & the Chilling Effect on Speech and Association, (45 Rev. Litig. (forthcoming 2026)).
• Egzon Musa, Freedom of Manifestation of Religion and Belief: Considerations from Constitutional Law and the Practice of the ECHR, (January 26, 2026).

From SSRN (Abortion Rights):

• Sara Ainsworth & Leigh Goodmark, Defending Imperfect Victims from Self-Managed Abortion Criminalization: Why Evidence of Intimate Partner Violence Matters, (97 University of Colorado Law Review 1267 (2026)).
• Elizabeth Kukura, Abortion, Power, and the Future of Healthcare, (April 01, 2026).
• Miranda McGowan, Dobbs’s Radical Remaking of the Fourteenth Amendment, (April 23, 2026). 

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Shahid Mahmood, Stages in the Development of the Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, (May 13, 2026).
• Azfar Samin, Reassessing Prophetic Literacy and the Written Transmission of Revelation: A Linguistic and Textual Analysis of the Qurʾān, (May 11, 2026).
• Sherifat Ajoke Dauda, An Analytical Study of Zihar and Illa under Islamic Family Law: Safeguarding Women's Dignity under Shariah, (September 30, 2025).
• Shahid Mahmood, The Da'wah Strategy of Prophet Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬ during the Makkan Period, (May 13, 2026).
• Stanislav Ageev, Implementation of AAOIFI Standards as a Legal Basis for Partnership Financing in International Projects Involving Russia, (April 03, 2026).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Clark L. Hildabrand, Judging Values: Public Confidence in the Federal Courts' Approach to Religion & Morality, 55 University of Memphis Law Review 979-1020 (2025).
• Arvind Kurian Abraham, The Ten Commandments Case: Constitutional Erastianism, Balkinization (May 11, 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Chad G. Marzen & William Woodyard, Pope Francis: The Progressive Pope of American Jurisprudence, (May 06, 2026).
• Christopher D. Hampson, For the Word of God is Posted and Passive, (University of Florida Levin College of Law Research Paper, Forthcoming).
• Vincent Bocchinfuso, How Hate Learned to Speak: Civil Rights Language, Institutional Shielding, and Reciprocal Standards, (May 08, 2026).
• Sachin Gupta, Sungjin Kim & Anirban Mukherjee, Is Volunteering a Gateway to Increased Monetary Giving? Evidence from a Field Experiment, (Marketing Letters, volume 37, issue 1, 2026).
• Aaron J. Saiger & Abner S. Greene, Religious Schools and the Secular State:  A Dialogue, (42 J. L. & Religion__ (2027)).
• Abu Hayyan Saeed, Human Reason, God, and Faith : A Kantian, Classical, Comparative Western, Eastern and Religious Perspective, (May 01, 2026).

From SSSRN (Reproductive Rights):

• David S. Cohen & Rachel Rebouche, The Origin and Future of Shield Laws, (94 UMKC L. Rev. 541 (2026)).
• Carole J. Petersen, From the Right to Choose to the Virtuous Victims?: Advocating for Reproductive Justice in the United States After Dobbs, (54.1 Denver Journal of International Law & Policy 1-26 (2025)).
• Eve Hanan, Presumed Guilt: Epistemic Closure in Pregnancy Prosecutions, (December 31, 2025).

From SSRN (Transgender Rights):

• Marc Spindelman, United States v. Skrmetti: On Realism, Reason, and Hope, (April 15, 2026).
• Susan Keller, The Double-Edged Rhetoric of Parental Rights: Conflicts between Freedom and Control in Cases Concerning Transgender Youth, (21 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy (2026)).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Oruj Ismayilov, Destiny, Free Will, and Divine Justice: An Analysis of the Concept of Trial and the Metaphysics of Oppression through a Qur'anic Perspective, (December 18, 2025).
• Abu Hayyan Saeed, The Evolution of Islamic Thought: Practical Implementation of the Qur'anic System and Related Studies, (February 04, 2026).
• Azfar Samin & Bashir Malik, The Qur'an, Hadith, and the Debate on Marriageable Age: A Textual Analysis, (September 30, 2025).

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

• Marek Antos, Filip Horak, Filip Jeline & Ondřej Preuss, Religious Neutrality and Treaty-Based Privileges: The Czech Constitutional Court on the Holy See Concordat, (May 04, 2026).
• Nikhil Dongre, Refugee Protection in India in the Absence of Specific Legislation: Legal Analysis, (May 01, 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Reva B. Siegel & Mary Ziegler, Dismantling Equality Rights Through "Biological-Sex" Talk, (105 Texas L. Rev. (forthcoming 2027)).
• Christopher C. Lund, Catholic Charities and the Coming War Over Religious Exemptions, (First Amendment Law Review, Vol. 24, p. 291, 2026 (symposium)).
• Christopher C. Lund, Soft Establishment, Religious Education, and Stone v. Graham, (Journal of Catholic Legal Studies (invited) (forthcoming 2026)).
• Luigi Zito, The Tiberian Senatus Consultum of 35 CE as External Legal Evidence of Early Christology, (Aequitas Magazine - Journal of Law and Legal Culture, Volume 2, 2026).
• Lewis S. Davis, Religious Orientations, Religious Beliefs, and Homophobia, (April 14, 2026).
• Erlang Tang, From McCarthyism to Bostock: The Judicial Evolution of Anti-Discrimination in Employment for Sexual Minorities in the United States, (Labor History, volume 67, issue 2, 2026).
• David S. Cohen & Carole Joffe, Continued Resistance and Resilience After Dobbs, (April 01, 2026).
• Alejandra Aldana Saravia, Reproductive Rights, Prenatal Personhood, and Constitutional Interpretation: A Legal, Biological and Ethical Analysis, (June 01, 2025).
• Avishai Akiva Dos-Lobitos, Yachas V'edut: The Covenant America Forgot, The Lineage the Costitution Named ‫ת‬ ‫דּו‬ ‫ֵע‬ ‫ּו‬ ‫ס‬ ‫ַח‬ ‫ַי‬, (April 04, 2026).
• Zalman Rothschild, Vaccines, Religious Liberty, and the GVR as Doctrinal Signal,. Harvard Law Review Forum (forthcoming).

From SSRN (Religious Philosophy):

• Elowen Hartley, Baruch Schwarz & Peregrine Shaw, Sacred Ambiguity: Folk Christianity and the Ontological Defense of the De-divinized African Body, (February 11, 2026).
• Donata Garsia, The Rawls Theological Paradox: His Original Position and the Architecture of Justice, (February 18, 2026).
• Brian Murray, Aquinas, Wilson, and Continuity on Crime and Punishment, (75 Catholic University Law Review 421 (2025)).
• Vincent Liu, The (In)justice of God: Wildness and the Love of Jesus Christ, (May 01, 2026).

From SSRN (Non-U.S. Law)

• Rabitah Khandoker, Quebec Bill 21: A Violation of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, (January 06, 2026).
• Kenneth Grad, Beyond Public Law: Recognizing a Tort Remedy for Hate Speech in Canada,(Constitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel, volume 34, issue 4, 2026).
• Shanaz Joan Parsan, From Bill C-63 to Bill C-9: Charter Limits on Canada's Emerging Hate and Online-Speech Regulation, (March 16, 2026).
• Ratu Durotun Nafisah, Judging and Social Cohesion: The Case of Interfaith Marriage in Indonesia, (Asian Journal of Law and Society (2026))
• Acharya Pt Dr Avdhesh Kumarr, From Totemism to Brahmanism: Evolution of Religious Consciousness in India, (April 23, 2026).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Saif Ali, Beyond the Gender Binary: An Intersectional Analysis of Law and the Recognition of Transgender People in Pakistan, (April 14, 2025).
• Ahmer Bilal Soofi, Imam Husayn's Stand at Karbala: A Testament to Upholding the Sanctity of  the Quranic Covenant of Shu'ra, (April 15, 2026).
• Hidayatul Ihsan, Eliyanora & Gustina, Integrating Islamic Social Finance and Environmental Conservation: Evidence from Bogor and Mojokerto Waqf Forests (March 20, 2026).
• Yaoharee Lahtee, Three Layers, One Moon, (March 20, 2026).
• Munidher Contractor, Agency Within the Covenant, (March 16, 2026).
• Mohamed Ghandour, The Big Short Vs. the Big Shield: What the 2008 Crisis Taught Us About Islamic Finance, (July 16, 2025).
• Mohamed Ghandour, Developing Shariah Compliant Financing Models Through Financial Technology for SME Financing in Egypt: A Reverse Factoring Model for Raw Material Financing Based on POS and Digital Payments, (November 01, 2025).
• Mohamed Ghandour, Digital Dawn for Islamic Finance: Shariah Compliant Tokenization Explained, (December 10, 2025).
• Zubair Abbasi, Book Review: Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia. By Dominik Krell. Leiden: Brill, 2025, (March 01, 2026).

From SmartCILP:

• Linda C. McClain, Do Bans on Conversion Therapy Impose a Governmental "Orthodoxy" about Sex and Gender?, 105 Boston University Law Review 1263-1294 (2025).
• Heather Walter-McCabe, 303 Creative: The Public Perils of Ignoring Public Health Harms in LGBTQ Rights Cases, 27 Journal of Health Care Law & Policy 188-216 (2024).
• Julie Novkov, No Return: Caste and the End of the Liberal Debate Over U.S. Antidiscrimination Law, 85 Maryland Law Review 209-242 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Avishai Akiva Dos-Lobitos, The Condition of the Mother: Partus Sequitur Ventrem and the Construction of Hereditary Status in Colonial America, (April 21, 2026).
• Ahmer Bilal Soofi, Articles of Association as Covenants, (April 15, 2026).
• Shima Baradaran Baughman, A Justice Index, (April 16, 2026).
• Ian Klein,  In Bad Faith: The Binding of the Establishment Clause on the Altar of Free Exercise, (March 20, 2026).
• Antony Kolenc, Is God Pro-Choice as a Matter of Law? The Establishment Clause and State Abortion Bans, (December 01, 2025).
• Angela Cargill, The Domestic Urban Cult: Immigration Exploitation, Coercive Control, and Multi-State Criminal Networks in a U.S.-Based High-Control Group, (April 12, 2026).
• Seth Cook, The Role of Moral Language in Death Penalty Advocacy, (October 11, 2025).
• Isaac Barnes May, Progressive Religious Liberty: Countering Conservative Free Exercise Doctrine, (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Volume 31, forthcoming 2027).
• Patrick E. Reidy, C.S.C., YIGBY Laws, (February 28, 2026).
• William Bouviet, Religion and Political Power: Historical Intersections and Structures of Influence, (March 03, 2026).
• Simon Brake, Are Religious Nondiscrimination Clauses Religion-Neutral?, (January 31, 2026).
• Jesse Burnett, De Valore Vitae in Bello: On the Value of Life in War, (March 24, 2026).
• Chagit Schiff Blass & Netta Barak Corren, When Science Disagrees: How Courts Should Navigate Empirical Contradictions In Constitutional Law, (February 10, 2026).

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

• M, Muktha, Ambedkar's Constitutional Morality in Modern Indian Governance, (February 22, 2026).
• Natia Nakashidze, Divorce as a Dual Legal Reality: The Intersection of Civil and Ecclesiastical Orders and Its Property and Status Implications in Georgia, (April 13, 2026).
• Saif Ali, Beyond the Gender Binary: An Intersectional Analysis of Law and the Recognition of Transgender People in Pakistan, (April 14, 2025).
• Simran Kaur, "The Economics of Belief: Religion, Behavioral Change and Public Policy Interventions", (April 25, 2025).
• Matías I. Rizzone, The Constitution That Was Never There, (March 19, 2026).
• Robert C. Blitt, Recognizing and Responding to Religious Support for Illegal War: The Russian Orthodox Church's Role in Russia's Aggression Against Ukraine, (April 16, 2026).

From SSRN (Judaism and Jewish Law):

• Hershey H. Friedman, The Most Cherished of Virtues: Human Dignity (Kvod Habriyot) in Jewish Law from the Talmud to the Digital Age (March 30, 2026).
• Hershey H. Friedman, The Good Life: Talmudic Wisdom on Ethics, Character, and Human Flourishing, (April 15, 2026).
• Jacob Goldman, First English Translation of the Kesef Mishneh on Hilchot Mamrim by Rabbi Yosef Karo (March 22, 2026).

From SSRN (Religious Issues in Africa):

• Anthony S. Aladekomo, Scientific and Historical Proofs That All Races Descended from A Common Ancestor in Africa, (April 18, 2026).
• Faith Afolabi, The Architecture of Ecclesiastical Malfeasance: A Comprehensive Analysis of Institutional Corruption and Covert Operations within the Christian Association of Nigeria and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, (April 23, 2026).
• Daniel Clement Unachukwu, A Study of Matthew 20:20–28 in Relation to Pentecostal Churches Leadership in Nigeria, (May 10, 2024).

From SSRN (Islam and Islamic Law):

• Nasrullah Qureshi & Bibi Saima Amanullah, An Analysis of Empirical Analogies of Quran for Resurrection: A Case Study of Surah Ar Rum, (September 19, 2025).
• Oruj Ismayilov, Striving or Fighting? Jihād in the Qur'an, (April 04, 2026).

From SSRN (Religious Philosophy):

• Edgar A. Fernandez-Lopez, Self-Identification and Human Experience in Liquid Times How Labels Shape the Way We Understand Our Lives, (April 22, 2026).
• Roman Petrov, Lead-Related Indicators and Cross-National Variation in the Belief That Morality Requires God: An Exploratory Ecological Sensitivity Analysis, (April 10, 2026).
• Hendrik Gommer, From Grotius to Biology: The Evolution of Natural Law, (May 10, 2025).
• Shamsaddin Amanov, Jurisdictional Sovereignty: A Consent-Based Critique of Divine Authority, (March 01, 2026).
• William Bouviet, Digital Faith: The Transformation of Religious Experience in Algorithmic Environments, (March 06, 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Amanda Harmon Cooley, Subjugating Liberty, (March 23, 2026).
• Shreya Mandal, Between Recognition and Erasure: Scheduled Caste Jurisprudence, Religious Conversion, and the Intergenerational Afterlife of Caste, (March 25, 2026).
• Muhammad Munir, The Teachings of Imam 'Ali and the Principles of International Humanitarian Law: Making Warfare more Humane, (March 25, 2026).
• Faizan Kirmani, Qiṣāṣ: A Misinterpreted Concept of Qur'an, (March 27, 2026).
• Sarah Lee, Between Agent and Governor: Local Officials' Selective Implementation of Religious Policies in China, (Local Government Studies, 24 February, 2026).
• Jeremy Ross, Accommodation Without Anarchy: An Empirical Analysis of Free Exercise Doctrine, (35 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. (forthcoming 2027)).
• Anibal Rosario Lebrón, Opting Out of Subordination: Minors' Right to Control Their Bodies and Futures, (forthcoming 47 Cardozo Law Review __ (2026)).
• Deborah N. Archer & Joe Schottenfeld, Civil Rights Administration, (78 Stanford Law Review (forthcoming).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Spencer C. Weiler, et. al., The 50-Yard Line of Teachers' Rights: Examining School District Policy Pertaining to Employee Speech and Religious Expression following the Kennedy Decision, 24 First Amendment Law Review 1-51 (2025).
• Stephanie Hall Barclay & Mathew M. Krauter, The Untold Story of the Proto-Smith Era: Justice O'Connor's Papers and the Court's Free Exercise Revolution, 174 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 435-548 (2026).
• Australian Journal of Law & Religion, Volume 7, 2026.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Dennis Wieboldt, 'But The Original Intent of the Constitution Would be Restored': Catholic Legal Thought and the Emergence of First Amendment Originalism, 1947-87, (65 Am. J. L. Hist __ (2026)).
• Abraham Chan, Instrumentalization of Criminal Law in the Governance of House Churches in China: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Practice (2015-2025), (March 01, 2026).
• Brian Broderick, School "Choice" for Whom?: The Lingering Prospect of Religious Charter Schools After Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School v. Drummond, (February 01, 2026).
• Murad Zeynalli & Mary Peshoff, Holy Work: How Religiosity Shapes Local Labor Market Outcomes, (January 30, 2025).
• Whittney Barth, Assessing New Frontiers: When Religion and Conscience Meet AI at Work, (January 26, 2026).
• Frederick Mark Gedicks, Fun with Dick and Jane: Religious Conservative Privilege in Mahmoud v. Taylor, (24 First Amendment Law Review (forthcoming Spring 2026)).
• Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, The Future of Nonprofit Regulation in the United States: Three Dynamic Trends, (April 01, 2026).
• Cynthia Soohoo, Lessons Learned From Global Responses To Criminal Abortion Laws, (Fordham Law Review Online, Vol. 94, pp. 115-137 (2026).

From SSRN (Religious Philosophy and Doctrine):

• Mohammad Bagher Saeidi Roshan & Hossein Rezaei, The Telos of Religion and the Scope of the Prophetic Mission of Muhammad (January 01, 2026).
• Ronald J. Colombo, A Contractual Analysis of Petitionary Prayer, (25 Ave Maria L. Rev. __ (forthcoming in 2027).
• Hershey H. Friedman, The Tongue as a Moral Force: Speech, Consequence, and Responsibility in Talmudic Thought, (March 17, 2026).
• Steven Douglas Smith, Reading the Signs of the Times: Sorokin, MacIntyre, Maritain, (American Maritain Association Conference 2026).
• Tahibul Islam ibn Mohammad Foyzul Islam Al Sayyidi, Al-Azhar and Bangladesh: Advancing Collaborative Transregional Islamic Jurisprudences in Industrial South-East Asia and Modern Bangladesh (Late 19th to 21st Century) (December 10, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• James deBoer, No Exception for Ultra Vires Discrimination, 33 American University Journal of Gender, Social Pollicy & Law 139-162 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Carl H. Esbeck, Church Autonomy and the Co-Religionist Hiring Practice at Issue in Union Gospel Mission of Yakima v. Brown, 162 F. 4th 1190 (9th Cir. 2026), (Notre Dame Law Review Reflections __ (forthcoming 2026)).
• Deborah Cantrell, Assessing the Law and Mindfulness Movement, (U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 26-14 (2026)).
• Abubakar Yusuf Mamud, From Securitization to Open War: Media Framing, Alliance Politics, and the Collapse of Coercive Diplomacy in the United States (US)-Israeli Bombing of Iran, (March 13, 2026).
• Jeremy Ross, The End of Peremptory Strikes?: Free Exercise and Religion-Based Batson Challenges, (87 Mont. L. Rev. 11 (2026)).
• Marie-Amelie George, Protecting Trans Rights, (January 01, 2026).
• Cyra Akila Choudhury, Reproductive Crimes, Digital Evidence, And The Limits Of Privacy Law (March 22, 2026).
• Charlotte LeBarron, Abortion Surveillance and the Data Broker Loophole, (N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, Volume 28, No. 1, pp. 245-289 (2025)).
• Hershey H. Friedman, Inside the Biblical Mind: Chizkuni's Psychological Genius and the Art of Medieval Commentary, (March 15, 2026).

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

• Yeshwant Naik, Human Rights Violations Against the LGBTQ+ Community in Iran, (March 14, 2026).
• Firas Sallam, The Separation of Legitimacies: Rethinking Shūrā in Islamic Constitutional Architecture, (March 11, 2026).
• Adekunle Saheed Akinola, Judicial Restraint and the Politics of Dignity: Rethinking Constitutional Silence in Nigeria's Same-Sex Marriage Law, (November 12, 2025).
• Zubair Abbasi, Book Review: Siddiqui, Sohaira Z. M. Islamic Law on Trial: Contesting Colonial Power in British India. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025, (February 01, 2026).
• Zubair Abbasi, Reconstruction of Sharīʿa through Judicial Ijtihād Inheritance Rights of Childless Widows under the Ithnā ʿAshariyya School in Pakistan, (March 14, 2026).
• Jacqueline Anthonysamy & Marlina Jamal, (De)Legitimation of Restrictive Abortion in Selected Malaysian Mainstream and Independent Newspapers: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis, (Social Science and Humanities Open (2026)).

From SmartCILP:

• Charles J. Russo, Controversies over the Free Speech Rights of Educators to Avoid Using Pronouns Inconsistent with Their Religious Beliefs: "The Beginning of the End" or "the End of the Beginning?", 23 Ave Maria Law Review 145-164 (2025).
• Jordana R. Goodman, Patently Inequitable, 105 Boston University Law Review 987-1048 (2025).
• Neal C. Ternes & Joseph Sabin, Them's Fighting Prayers, 49 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 43-70 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jeffrey R. Baker, The Church of Dissent in the Imperial Republic, (Anglican Theological Review (2026)).
• Manish Oza, Personification in Private Law, (Forthcoming in Christopher Essert, Paul B. Miller, and Eva Micheler, eds., Legal Personhood in Private Law (Cambridge University Press, 2026)).
• Eric A. DeGroff & Steven Fitschen, The Not-so-Silent Epidemic of Secret Gender-affirming Policies in the Nation's Schools: Parental Rights and the Promise of Pierce v. Society of Sisters, (February 18, 2026).
• Andrew R. DeLoach, Antigone, Autonomy, and Higher Lawlessness, (March 01, 2026).
• Melanie J. Brown, Death, Religion, and Sexuality: Testamentary Restraints on Marriage, (34 George Mason Law Review ___ (forthcoming)).
• Donata Garsia, Cultural Development Zones: A Governance Framework for Mission Integrity in Community-Based Cultural-Religious Organizations, (March 22, 2026).
• Emerson Wright, Intersex Erasure, (February 01, 2026).
• John Carter, Natural Law's Return: Uncovering the Roots of Intractability on Guns as Prelude to New Growth, (12 Journal of Moral Theology 33-57 (2023).
• Yvonne Lindgren & Greer Donley, The Post-Dobbs Abortion Irony, (100 Southern California Law Review __ (2026) (forthcoming)).

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

• Pragya Mishra & Srishti Chaturvedi, A Swadeshi Doctrinal Framework for Religious Freedom (March 18, 2026).
• Amjad Hammad& Taleb Hammad, Closing the Specialty Care Gap in MENA: Physician-Led Private Investment, Sukuk, and Waqf as Infrastructure Solutions, (March 08, 2026).
• Amjad Hammad & Rushdi Siddiqui, Rational Hesitation: Governance Signals and Muslim Capital Deployment, (International Journal of Islamic Finance and Sustainable Development, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Ali Hakim & Reza Baqir, Sovereign Sukuk in Default, 28 Journal of International Economic Law 382-403 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Tomas Griskevicius, Institutional Violence: The Case of an Alleged US CIA Prison Operating in Lithuania, (February 28, 2026).
• Caroline Mala Corbin, Law Office Science. (March 20, 2026).
• Abu Hayyan Saeed, Islamic History , Bride of Orientalism or Witch of Atheism?, (January 01, 2026).
• Allison Whelan, The Case for Professional Disobedience, (Georgia State University College of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper (2026)).
• Heric Martell Sanctis, The Limits of Agency: A Neurobiological and Praxeological Defense of Abortion Rights from Liberal Self-Ownership, (March 07, 2026).
• Ethan Perkins, After Dobbs: A Neuroscientific Standard for Constitutional Personhood, (February 28, 2026).
• Caitlin Millat, Parents As Regulators, (74 UCLA L. Rev. __ (2027) (forthcoming)).
• Paul Benjamin Linton, Therapeutic Abortions Before Roe: An Examination of the Language and Interpretation of Abortion Prohibitions (February 25, 2026).

From SmartCILP:

• Ali Rod Khadem, Islamic Finance, Commercial Law, and Economic Justice: Apocalyptic Challenges to the Global Order, 39 Emory International Law Review 643-704 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

Note: SSRN this week posted links to 39 articles by John Witte. Below are links to those written within the past two years which is Religion Clause's definition of "Recent" articles.

• John Witte, Josef Bohatec: The First Historian of the Calvinist Reformation of Rights, (September 16, 2025).
• John Witte, Christianity and Law in the Enlightenment, (December 31, 2024).
• John Witte, Review Essay on Rafael Domingo, Law & Religion in Secular Age, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 14, no. 1 (2025): 175-80).
• John Witte, Faith in School: Balancing No Establishment and Free Exercise of Religion Guarantees in American Education, (Ecclesiastical Law Journal, volume 26, issue 3,2024).
• John Witte, "Foreword" to Grzegorz Blicharz, Kevin Doak, and Jonghyu Jeong, eds., Law and Christianity in Japan: The Legacy of the Great Jurists, (forthcoming 2026).
• John Witte, The Christian Origins of the Law of Marriage and Divorce in the Western Legal Tradition, (Joel A. Nichols and Karin Carmit Yefet, eds., Research Handbook on Family Law and Religion (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026), __.)
• John Witte, Polygamy, Marriage, Protestant Law, (Rabiat Akande, Maurits Berger, and Vishal Vora, eds. Concise Encyclopedia of Religion and Law (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026)).
• John Witte & Andrea Pin, Sacrificing Religious Freedom in Europe: Why the Pan-European Courts Need Douglas Laycock, (Journal of Law and Religion 40 (2026): __ ).
• John Witte, State Law and Moral Character Formation, (Canopy Forum (February 12, 2025)).
• John Witte, Balancing No Establishment and Free Exercise of Religion Guarantees in American Education, (December 31, 2024).

From SSRN:

• Kevin M. Barry & D. Dangaran, Gender Dysphoria Canons, (University of Hawai’i Richardson School of Law Research Paper No. 6345719 (2026)).
• Jonathan Feingold & Isaac Kamola, Maga's Blue State Strategy: How Democrats And University Leaders Helped The Reactionary Right Weaponize Antisemitism Against Higher Education, (August 01, 2025).
• Asad Ullah, Islamic Bioethics and Genetic Engineering: Principles and Contemporary Challenges, (February 03, 2026).
• Riwaldi et. al., The Strategy of the Office of Religious Affairs (KUA) in Preventing Early Marriage in Urban Communities, (ZICONS: Zawiyah International Conference on Sharia and Legal Studies (2025)).
• SeyyedAbdolHojjat MoghadasNian, SeyedMehdi AlizadehMousavi, SeyedMohammadMahdi HosseinPoor & Akbar Bagheri, Prophetic Conflict Management, Quantified: A KPI-Driven GKSF for Intra-Islamic Rapprochement, (September 06, 2025).
• Rifqi Khairul Anam & Alamsyah Halim, Existential-Islamic Dialogue: Reinterpreting Spirituality To Overcome Modern “Unhomeliness”, (Rausyan Fikr: Jurnal Ilmu Studi Ushuluddin dan Filsafat, volume 21, issue 2, 2025).
• Jill Wieber Lens & Allison Whelan, Perinatal Palliative Care & Abortion, (Virginia Law Review (2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jeremy Kessler, Selective Service and the Separation of Powers, (106 Boston University Law Review __ (2026)).
• Harold Anthony Lloyd, Bowers v. Hardwick Postmortems at Forty: Timely Dissections of Its Tradition, Enumeration, and Other Errors, (William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Volume 35 (Forthcoming)).
• Nguyen, Lam Tien, A Theocracy Within a Democracy: Revisiting the Limits of Accommodation and Pluralism in a Pluralist Democracy, (February 07, 2026).
• James M. Oleske, Jr., Mahmoud, Skrmetti, and 303 Creative: Ignoring Original Meaning, Rewriting Precedent, and Discounting Harm to LGBTQ People, (26 Hous. J. Health L. & Pol’y (forthcoming)).
• Reva B. Siegel, It's Alive! When the Original Meaning of "Person" Protected by the Fourteenth Amendment Is Not a Fixed, But Living Word, (Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming).
• Emily Maurin-Waters & Deborah Lolai, Hate Crime or Bullying? The High Cost of Framing Harm Among Youth, (113 Va. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2027)).
• Benjamin Eidelson, Testimony for U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hearing on Antisemitism on America’s College and University Campuses: Current Conditions and the Federal Response, (February 06, 2026).
• Michele Goodwin & Allison Whelan, Reproductive Policing: A Review, (Annual Review of Criminology, volume 9, issue 1, 2026).
• Greer Donley& William M. Carter, Jr., An Originalist Critique of Fetal Personhood, (175 U. Pa. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)).

From SSRN (Parental Rights):

• Maxine Eichner, Mary E. Ziegler & Naomi R. Cahn, Opting Out: Mahmoud, Public Education, and the Future of Parental Rights, (___ Duke L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2026)).
• Zalman Rothschild, Vaccines and 'Religious Parental Rights', (Harv. L. Rev. F. (forthcoming)).

From SSRN (Religious Philosophy):

• Maurice Izunwa& OD Michael, Conceptualising Jesus as The 'Living Customary Law: a Christological Re-reading of  The "African Charter on Human And People's Rights" For Restorative Justice and  Socio-economic Rights In Africa, (January 03, 2026).
• Edward L. Rubin, The Concept Of Mercy As A Pragmatic Decision Protocol, (Vanderbilt Law Research Paper, (October 3, 2025)).
• Hakan Ibrahim Apaydin, How Texts Became Sacred Revelation, Writing, and the Historical Construction of Sacredness, (January 29, 2026).
• Hannah Walser, Religion as Private Law, (February 01, 2026).

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

• Amal Sethi, The Taliban's Multitextual Constitution: Cultivated Ambiguity as Authoritarian Technique, (2026 Forthcoming, Richard Albert (ed), Multi-Textual Constitutions of the World).
• Gareth T. Davies, Can Prejudice Justify Discrimination? The Case of Religion in EU Law, (Effective Judicial Protection in EU Equality Law (2026)).
• Donata Garsia, Cultural Development Zones: A Governance Framework for Mission Integrity in Community-Based Cultural Organizations, (February 02, 2026).

From SmartCILP:

• Clara Spera & Katherine Fleming, Conservative Family Values as Constitutional Law: Private Regulation and the Erosion of Fundamental Rights, 65 Santa Clara Law Review 651-730 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

 From SSRN:

• Candice Mason Kulbeth, Church Autonomy: A Universal Sequencing Question ,(January 22, 2026).
• Ela A. Leshem, Normative Transplants: The Case of Ships as Legal Persons, (Forthcoming in Legal Personhood in Private Law (Paul B. Miller, Christopher Essert & Eva Micheler eds., Cambridge University Press 2026)).
• Joshua P. Fershee, Reimagining Legal Education: The Role And Purpose Of Law Schools In Modern Society-A Values-Driven Approach To Modern Legal Education, (Toledo Law Review, Volume 57, Issue 2, Winter 2026, pp. 229-42).
• Benjamin Fleshman, Church Autonomy as a Framework for Conditions on Government Benefits, (105 North Carolina Law Review (Forthcoming)).
• Anurag Deb, Lewis Graham & C.R.G. Murray, Religious Education and Indoctrination in Northern Ireland and Beyond After JR87, (Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 2026).
• Micah Schwartzman, The Asymmetry of Religious Motivation, (135 Y.L.J.F. 467 (2025)).
• Scott Altman, Steering, Subversion, and Rights, (USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 2607 (2026)).
• Lyric Helena Emerson, Abortion, Bodily Sovereignty, and State Power in 2025, (January 30, 2026).
• Dov Fox & Mary Ziegler, Reproductive Abuse, (UCLA Law Review (forthcoming 2026)).
• Rachel Crass, Sex and Gender in Sports: Examining the Constitutionality of Transgender Sports Laws in the United States and the Need for a New Approach to Scrutiny, (July 26, 2024).
• R. George Wright, The Many Constitutional Limits on Government Speech, (February 02, 2026).

From SSSRN (Islamic Law):

• Qazi Irfan, A Critique of Diminishing Musharakah (January 30, 2026).
• Oruj Ismayilov, From Darkness to Light: The Isrā as Divine Pedagogy, (January 25, 2026).
• Rachel Crass, Comparative Sharia Law in Iran and Nigeria: Effects on Athletes and Recommendations for Sports Governing Bodies to Increase Access for Muslim Women and Girls, (May 06, 2024).
• Dhruv B., Legal Enforceability of Smart Contract-Based Mahr Agreements in Online Nikah Platforms: A Comparative Analysis of UAE and Malaysian Jurisprudence, (August 24, 2025).
• Afthah Ashraf K.M., Mawālī in Early Islam: From Subaltern Class to Pioneers of Islamic Scholarship, (September 10, 2025).
• Eddie Ladja, "Zakat as an Instrument of Economic Empowerment: Assessing Its Impact on the Economic Resources of Muslim Residents in Zamboanga City, Philippines", (January 28, 2026).

From SSRN (Law of East Asia):

• Advaith Sri Krishna Datta Mamidanna, The Constitutional Experiment in Matrimonial Justice: A Critical Study of India's Matrimonial Justice Regime and Its Jurisprudential Paradox, (September 17, 2025).
• Sunil Sondhi, Dandaniti in the Indian Tradition, (October 18, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

•  3rd Annual Law v. Antisemitism Conference, FIU Law Review, Vol. 19, Number 3 (2025).
• Heidar Piri & Niaz A, Shah, The Application of Human Rights Treaties as Domestic Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 47 Human Rights Quarterly 282-307 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Eric A. Kades, Turning the Other Cheek, (January 30, 2026).
• Robert Katz, How Antisemitism Infects the Law, (December 09, 2024).
• Taleed El-Sabawi & Angelo Kishmish, Loving Thy Neighbor in the Shadow of the CSA: RFRA and the Case for Overdose Prevention Centers, (February 16, 2026).
• Gabrielle Girgis, The Establishment Clause After Kennedy: Principles and Applications, (February 13, 2026).

From SSRN (East Asian Issues):

• N. Vasudeva Srivamsi, Raamaraajya and the Indian Constitution: A Duty-Oriented Perspective, (September 17, 2025).
• Dewan Alif Ovi & Pronathi Ghosh, Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: A Socio Legal Analysis (January 31, 2026).
• Kelley Loper & Carole J. Petersen, The Evolution of LGBTQ+ Rights In Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, (February 07, 2026).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Arafat Rahman Akram, Lab-Grown Meat: An Issue-Based Islamic Jurisprudential Analysis in the Light of Qur’an, Sunnah, and Juristic Opinions, (January 16, 2026).
• Erfanul Alam Siddiquee, Imagining Indigenous Islamic Financial Modernity: What If Colonialism Never Disrupted Islamic Banking?, (January 31, 2026).
• Erfanul Alam Siddiquee, Zakat in Bondage: The Malê Model and Spirit of Islamic Finance, (February 02, 2026).
• Abdessamad Bourkibate, Family Cybersecurity Jurisprudence (FCJ): A Foundational Interdisciplinary Framework Integrating Islamic Legal Theory, Cybersecurity Engineering, and Digital Family Psychology, (January 19, 2026).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Laura Portuondo, Free Exercise and the Redistribution of Liberty (February 04, 2026).
• James Morrison, Beyond the Curriculum: Free Exercise Limits on Public School Regulation After Mahmoud v. Taylor, (January 11, 2026).
• Harold Anthony Lloyd, Bowers v. Hardwick Postmortems at Forty: Timely Dissections of Its Tradition, Enumeration, and Other Errors, (February 07, 2026).
• John Greil, Some Optimism About Protecting Sacred Sites, (February 10, 2026).
• Michael J. Broyde, When Church Needs State: Protecting the Right to Worship from Disruptive Protest, (January 01, 2026).
• Robert W. Gomulkiewicz, When Constitutional Protection for Religious Liberty Gets Lost in Translation: A Case Study from Washington State, (February 02, 2026).
• John Parsi, Let’s Talk About the Biological Reality of Sex, Baby, (February 14, 2025).
• Jud Campbell, Fundamental Rights at the American Founding, (January 01, 2025).
• Naomi R. Cahn, Maxine Eichner & Mary E. Ziegler, "For Their Benefit": The Lost History of Parental Consent and Minors' Rights, (February 26, 2025). 

From SSRN (Non-U.S Law):

• Dawn Carla Nunziato, The EU Versus the Platforms and the First Amendment: Regulating Online Hate Speech (October 01, 2025).
• Jay Patil & Asmita Tikhe, Uniform Civil Code in India: A Legal and Empirical Analysis, (January 15, 2026).
• Joy Makhal, Finding a Room of One’s Own: Woman Autonomy and the Anti-Stereotyping Principle in Dishonour Crimes Adjudication in India, (October 22, 2025).

From SSRN (Religious Philosophy):

• Swapnil Bhagat, From Hymn to State: Political Ecology and Kingship from the Ṛgveda through the Aitareya to the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, (September 06, 2025).
• Shamsaddin Amanov, The Manifesto of Omittoism: A Jurisdictional Declaration of Human Sovereignty, (January 11, 2026).
• Shamsaddin Amanov, Jurisdictional Sovereignty: A Consent-Based Critique of Divine Authority, (January 12, 2026).
• James Renfroe, Where the Lines Meet: Adoption as a Birthright and the Ritual Architecture of the Royal House (1842-1894), (January 16, 2026).
• Hershey H. Friedman, Beyond Rashi: Rashbam's Groundbreaking Peshat Approach and the Battle Over Biblical Truth (January 28, 2026).

From SSRN (Islam and Islamic Law):

• Zikra Hasan & Mohd Kamil, The Sachar Committee Report: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Muslim Marginalisation, State Policy, and Constitutional Equality in India, (December 15, 2025).
• Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema, Islamic Law of Inheritance in the Age of Generative AI: An Analysis of ChatGPT and DeepSeek (January 30, 2026).
• Shahid Mahmood, New Atheism and Islam: (A Critical Examination of Scientism, Morality, and Islamic Intellectual Responses in the Post-2000 Era), (January 21, 2026).
• Karim Gabriel Mussa, Religious Fatwas and Social Cohesion: A Case Study of Public Reactions in Tanzania, (January 21, 2026).
• Asad Zaman, Reclaiming Economics as a Moral Science: An Islamic Approach to Monetary Reform, (January 25, 2026).
• Ahmad Munif, Irwan Abdullah, Misbah Zulfa Elizabeth & Muhammad Zainal Mawahib, Controversy Over Religious Authorities in Sharia Financial Regulation, (June 27, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• Jessica Gibree, Faith or Fairness: The Legal Battle over LGBTQ Rights in Adoption and Foster Care, 35 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 1-40 (2025).
• Jeremias Brusau, Religious Exemptions from Abortion Bans?, 35 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 41-84 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Joanmarie Davoli, Infusing Catholicism In Teaching And Writing, (December 01, 2025).
• Michael Quinlan, NSW Greens Introduce a Bill of Rights to Protect Their Preferred Rights, (News Weekly Issue No. 3204, December 20, 2025 12-13).
• Angshul Majumdar, Halakhah as a Gödelian System: Why Oral Law, Disagreement, and Authority are Structurally Necessary, (January 20, 2026).
• Robert Katz, Antisemitism and the Law, (Carolina Academic Press, 2025).
• Zachary Price, Constitutional Symmetry in the 2024-2025 Term:  Mahmoud and Skrmetti's Missteps, (January 31, 2026).
• Gagas Tri Anggoro, Inclusive Human Rights: A Paradigm for Dignity in Diversity, (January 10, 2026).
• Robert Katz, The Pearl and Troy Feibel Lecture on Judaism and Law: "American Law's Jewish Question: Religion, Race, and Free Speech in an Age of Campus Antisemitism", (January 31, 2026).
• Nancy A. McLaughlin, Donor Standing To Enforce Charitable Gifts In The 21st Century (February 03, 2026).
• Jacqueline Stevens, How John Searle and the Chicago Supermob Took Out Northwestern University: The Case of the 'Mislaid' Methodists and Proposals to Reform Nonprofit Laws, (January 20, 2026).
• Daniel B. Rice, Tradition Without Text?, (75 Duke Law Journal Online __ (forthcoming 2026)).
• Lyric Helena Emerson, Discrimination in 2025: Racism, Islamophobia, Gender, and the Reorganization of Social Hierarchy, (January 30, 2026).

From SSRN (Biblical Interpretation):

• Essien Oku Essien, Apocalyptic Diagnostics of the Divine Letters to the Seven Churches in Asia Minor, (January 23, 2026).
• Essien Oku Essien, A Constructive Reading Of Matthew 16:18 In Canonical And Patristic Perspective (January 21, 2026).
• Dov Fischer, The Value of Silence and Purposeful Communication: Lessons from Genesis (37:13), (December 07, 2025).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Arafat Rahman Akram & Sharat Fatema Angelic, Admissibility of Iqrar in Proving Criminal Cases: A Comparative Study of Malaysia, Pakistan, and Brunei, (January 10, 2026).
• Seyyed Abdol Hojjat Moghadas Nian, AqilaSadat MoghadasNian & Moghadas Nian SeyyedAbdolHamed, Optimizing Digital Transformation in Waqf Institutions: A Strategic KPI Framework for Enhanced Transparency and Sustainability, (April 19, 2025).
• Dr. Mohamed El Bachir Berroho, Waqf and Trust: A Comparative Analysis, (October 21, 2024).

From SmartCILP:

• Iza Hussin, Book Review. Between Empires: Arab, Asian, and European Legal Orders in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean. Sovereigns of the Sea: Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire, by Seema Alavi, 50 Law & Social Inquiry 935-940 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Hakan Ibrahim Apaydin, Prophet and King Figures in Sacred Texts: Theological Inconsistencies and the Problem of Textual Construction, (January 02, 2026).
• David M. Engel, Village Law in a Changing World: Justice and Alienation in Thailand, (January 15, 2026).
• Russell Bell, Unfalsifiable Claims and Unaccountable Power: Why Theocracy Requires Thought Control, (January 21, 2026).
• Mathew Akinlabi Onifade, Epistemic Injustice in Africa: A Philosophical Dialogue with the Science of Religion, (November 17, 2025).
• Steven Collis, Public Employees as a Reflection of a Religiously Diverse Culture, (99 Notre Dame L. Rev. Reflection 229 (2024)).
• Lawrence O. Gostin, The Supreme Court's 2026 Term-Public Health in Jeopardy, (JAMA Health Forum, volume 7, issue 1, 2026).
• Samuel Singer & Gillian Smith, From Mistake to Malice: Misgendering in Canadian Legal Proceedings, (January 19, 2026).
• Gokula Krishnan B, India’s Transgender Policy in Global Context: A Comparative Study with South Asia., (Social Science & Humanities Open, 2026).
• Jeffrey A. Pojanowski, Natural Law and Reading Positive Law: Moments of Moral Judgment in Legal Interpretation, (American Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 71 (forthcoming 2026)).
• Julia Hunter, Transgender Rights Federalism: Protecting Gender-Affirming Care in State Court, (UC Law Journal, Volume 77 (Forthcoming April 2026)).
• Jason Brownlee, Efforts to Weaponize Title VI against Pro-Palestine Speech on University Campuses, (December 31, 2024).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Abu Hayyan Saeed,, Islamic History , Fact or Fiction, (January 02, 2026).
• Sharat Fatema Angelic & Majdah Zawawi, Shurb Al-Khamr Under Islamic Criminal Law: Harm, Punishment, and Modern Legal Challenges, (January 04, 2026).
• Samiul Hasan, Executives in the Muslim Majority Countries: Practices and Lessons for Harm Prevention, (January 16, 2026).
• Ekaterina Ryzhkova, Religion As the Basis and Force of the Financial Policy of Muslim Countries, (November 25, 2025).
• Haseeb Fatima Saikhu & Rasham Armab Saikhu, Systematic Analysis of Inheritance Rights of Khuntha (Simple Hermaphrodite) and Khuntha Mushkil (Problematic Hermaphrodite) under Islamic Law and Pakistani Legal System, (Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice Volume 21, Issue 4: 148-164, 2025).
• Sharat Fatema Angelic, Validity of Muslim Marriage Conducted via Video Call: An Islamic Jurisprudential Analysis, (January 16, 2026).
• Timur Kuran & Fasih Zulfiqar, Uneven Modernization in the Muslim World, (Annual Review of Economics, volume 18 (2026)).
• Arun Muralidhar, A Sharia-Compliant, Heterogeneous-Agent, Asset Pricing Model: With Asset Allocation and Risk-Adjusted Performance, (January 24, 2026).
• Shahid Mahmood, Artificial Intelligence and Human Identity: (Islamic Ethical Challenges), (January 06, 2026).
• Ming Sen Thong, Blockchain for Islamic Social Financing and Islamic Financial Institutions, (January 04, 2026).

From SmartCILP:

• BYU Law Review, Volume 50 (2024-2025), Issue 5.

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Lael Daniel Weinberger & Branton Nestor, Church Autonomy and Interlocutory Appeals, (January 14, 2026).
• Michael A. Helfand, Mapping Carson: New Frontiers of Religious Exclusion in Government Programs, (Notre Dame Law Review, forthcoming).
• Ekaterina Ryzhkova, The Influence of the Islamic Legal Tradition on the Institution of Public Finance in the Countries of the East, (December 06, 2025).
• Dennis Wieboldt, "Shall We Settle for Anything Less Than Complete Equality?" Catholic Power and the First National Fight for Parental Rights in Education, 1947-1962, (34 Rel. & Am. Cul. __ (2026)).
• Oruj Ismayilov, Was Adam the First Biological Human? A Qur'anic Account of Human Origins as a Metaphysical Turning Point, (December 28, 2025).
• Pranav Ankush Jadhav SP, The Hindu Minority Crisis: Understanding Recent India-Bangladesh Tensions, (December 26, 2025).
• Zahir Khan, Application of Islamic Law of Tort in Pakistan's Legal System: A Critical and Comparative Analysis, (December 29, 2025).
• John M. Bickers, A Tale Told in Reverse: Military Retirees and the Benefit of Clergy, (January 09, 2026).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• Andrew T. Hayashi & Allen Calhoun (eds.), Justice in Taxation: Christian Perspectives, (Routledge, June 2026).
• Konrad Dyda, The Legal System of the Vatican City State: Between Secular and Canon Law, (Routledge, October 2025).
• Jonathan Crowe, Constance Youngwon Lee & Joshua Neoh, Jurisprudence and Theology: The Australian School, (Routledge, November 2025).
• Brandon Vaidyanathan, Sara Perla and Stephen White, Rebuilding Trust: Clergy Morale in the Wake of the Abuse Crisis, (Catholic University Press, Nov. 2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• L. Joe Dunman, Religion in the Law: An Open Access Casebook (2d Ed.), (January 04, 2026).
• Richard Yuan, Reverse-Hostage Strategies: Self-Subordination and Elite Politics in Premodern States, (December 01, 2025).
• Caleb Bastian, Sociality in Tribes, (December 25, 2025).
• Melissa Murray & Katherine Shaw, Skrmetti, Trump, and the Coming Sex Equality Realignment,  (Supreme Court Review, forthcoming 2026).
• Vaishnavi Shinde, Casteism and Reservation in Modern India: Rethinking Reservation and Equality (2025), (December 13, 2025).
• Paul Benjamin Linton, Transporting Abortifacients Across State Lines: Prospects for Indictment and Extradition, (December 01, 2025).
• The following are Forthcoming in  Eric Heinze, Natalie Alkiviadou, Tom Herrenberg, Sejal Parmar and Ioanna Tourkochoriti (eds), The Oxford Handbook on Hate Speech (Oxford University Press, 2026)): Eric Heinze, The Multifaceted Regulation of Online Hate Speech;  Eric Heinze & Ashutosh A. Bhaagwat, Do Hate Speech Bans Undermine Liberal Values?;   Eric Heinze, Do Hate Speech Bans Undermine Democratic Values?.

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Arafat Rahman Akram, Qisas and International Human Rights Law: An Issue of Justice and Human Dignity, (January 04, 2026).
• Abdullah Muzammil, An Islamic Jurisprudential Inquiry into the Conditional Permissibility of Modern Sports Betting, (December 14, 2025).
• Syed Muhammad Bilal Zaidi, When "Principal" Loses Meaning: Ribā, Fiat Money, and the Ethics of Obligation, (December 30, 2025).
• Zulfa Latifah Hanum, Science (Ontology) in Islamic and Western Perspectives, (December 14, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• J. Steven Svoboda, Protection of Male and Female Sexed Children from Genital Cutting: Making Sense of Recent Legal Developments.31 Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice 307-358 (2025).
• Mairead Enright, "Up with the Brave": Gender, Transgression and Judges' Use of Catholic Convents in England and Ireland, 1930–1959, 43 Law & History Review 149-174 (2025).
• Jennifer M. Kinsley, Speak Now: A New Paradigm for Assessing Wedding Vendors' First Amendment Objections to Same-Sex Weddings, 52 Northern Kentucky Law Review 89-106 (2025).
• Ryan Thoreson, Obergefell and the Domestication (Or Not) of LGBTQ Intimacy. 52 Northern Kentucky Law Review 107-174 (2025).
• William E. Thro, Pierce and the American Proposition, 50 University of. Dayton Law Review 381-396 (2025).
  
• Isaac Amon, "Forced Worship Stinks in God's Nostrils": The Inquisition, Sepharad, and the American Experiment, 40 Touro Law Review 71 (2025).
• Paul Finkelman & Lance J. Sussman, Defeating Antisemitism in the World's First Democratic Republic: The American Revolution and Jewish Legal and Political Equality, 40 Touro Law Review 121 (2025).
• Marc A. Greendorfer, Trading Places: The Intersection of LGBTQ Rights and Zionist Rights under Federal Civil Rights, 40 Touro Law Review 173 (2025).
• Jonathan Hasson, Odod Mudrikm & Abraham Tennenbaum, Command and Consequence: Reassessing King David's Military Decisions in the Uriah Affair—A Legal and Ethical Analysis in the Context of Modern Legal Theory, 40 Touro Law Review 197 (2025).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• David Eliot Bernstein, Title VI Hostile Environment Law in the Shadow of Antisemitic Violence, (Journal of Free Speech Law, Forthcoming).
• Geoffrey Swenson, Symbolic Rule of Law Promotion, (December 12, 2025). Law & Social Inquiry, First View pp. 1-32 (2025).
• Zachary D. Fasman & Samuel Estreicher, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism and Title VI: College and University Responsibility for Campus Harassment of Jewish Students, (January 09, 2026).
• Peter K. Yu, Monastic Scribes, Disruptive Technology, Proto-Copyright Regimes, and Their Twenty-First Century Lessons, (Intellectual Property and Religion: Cross-Cultural Intersections of Faith and the Law, Enrico Bonadio, Bryan Khan, and Nicola Lucchi, eds., Hart Publishing, 2026, Forthcoming).
• Ofer Raban, The First Amendment and the Suspension of an Extremist Anti-Zionist Law Professor, (January 05, 2026).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Seyyed Abdol Hojjat Moghadas Nian, Ebrahim Qasemi, Seyyed Mohammad Ali Moghadas Nian, & SeyedMehdi AlizadehMousavi, Pioneering Jurisprudential Convergence: A KPI-Based Framework for Shia-Hanafi Rapprochement in Islamic Law, (April 19, 2025).
• Olivia Abu Danyal, Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Waqf Administration: Policy Options for Nigeria, (November 30, 2025).
• Marroun Bader & Amuda Ghazali, Legal and Regulatory Challenges in Waqf Administration in Nigeria, (November 28, 2025).
• Marroun Bader & Aliyu Islam, The Role of Waqf Institutions in Socio-Economic Development in Nigeria, (November 28, 2025).
• Shahid Mahmood, The Islamic Governance and Secular State (Philosophical Tensions and Practical Possibilities), (November 15, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• Sarah Ghabrial, Emergency by Design: The "Native Repressive Tribunals" and the Normalization of Exception in Colonial Algeria, 1858–1904. 42 Law & History Review 665-690 (2024).
• Yar Furstenberg, Rabbinic Evidence for the Spread of Roman Legal Education in the Provinces, 42 Law & History Review 713-734 (2024).
• Chagai Schlesinger, Weber in Jerusalem: The Rabbinical Debate over the Establishment of the Rabbinical Court of Appeals, 1918–1921,42 Law & History Review 869-892 (2024).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Blair Major, Between Freedom and Neutrality: Servatius v Alberni School District and the Problem of Judicial Gaslighting (December 19, 2025).
• Mustak Ahmed, The Weaponisation of Amnesty: Terrorism, Executive Decisions, and National Security in Bangladesh, (December 23, 2025).
• Shucheng Wang, The Varieties of Protestant House Churches Beyond Authoritarian Legality, (November 01, 2025).
• Matthew Cavedon, Eden America: John Locke and the School of Salamanca on Natural Property Rights, (Cambridge University, Press Elements in Law and Religion (under contract).
• Russell Bell, The Structural Necessity of Thought Control: Why Theocracy and Intellectual Freedom Are Logically Incompatible, (December 13, 2025).
• Russell Bell, Early Christian Authority Conflicts and Textual Preservation: The James-Paul Dispute and Its Impact on Alternative Christian Literature, (November 26, 2025).
• Russell Bell, Religious Reasoning in Nuclear Command Authority: Constitutional Crisis, Algorithmic Warfare, and Emergency Democratic Response During Real-Time Threshold War, (December 03, 2025).
• Advaith Sri Krishna Datta Mamidanna & Yug Gattani, Emergency Powers and Constitutional Morality: Re-examining Article 356 through S.R. Bommai, (December 17, 2025).
• Nicolin Decker, The Continuity vs. Conscience Doctrine (CVC): The Mappability Boundary in Artificial Systems and Human Rights, (December 26, 2025).
• Habiba Danjuma, & Abubakar Yusuf Mamud, Religious Freedom, Violence, and International Policy: Assessing Nigeria’s Designation as a Country of Particular Concern for Alleged Christian Persecution, (December 22, 2025).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Godfrey Lukindo J, Probate in Islamic Law Tanzania, Law and Practice Concern 1/3 Principle Properties to Wakf, (December 26, 2025).
• Ahmer Bilal Soofi, From Revelation to Legislation, (December 02, 2025).
• Ahmer Bilal Soofi, ‘Inna’: The Solemn Affirmation of Allah in the Quran, (December 20, 2025).
• Sonny Bhagat, The Raid on Somnath: Ghaznavid Ambitions and Divine Destiny in Futuh-us-Salatain (August 12, 2025).

From SmartCILP:

• Journal of Catholic Legal Studies, Vol. 63 (2025).
• Symposia, Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, Vol 25, Issue 2 (2025).
• Kyle Reinhard, Myths and Magical Thinking: American Civil Religion, the Establishment Clause, and "Codified Irrationality" in Anti-CRT Measures, 37 Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development  287-376 (2025).
• Michael Zuckert, William J. Brennan Lecture. Brennan, Madison, and Freedom of Religion, 49 Oklahoma City University Law Review 305-318 (2025).