Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jianlin Chen, Lying About God (and Love?) to Get Laid: The Case Study of Criminalizing Sex Under Religious False Pretense in Hong Kong, (Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 51, No. 3, 553-607, 2018).
• Richard W. Garnett, Mild and Equitable Establishments, (First Things (April 2019)).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson, Common Ground Lawmaking: Lessons for Peaceful Coexistence from Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Utah Compromise, (Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 3, 2019).
• Michel Rosenfeld, Constitutionalism and Secularism: A Western Account, (Susanna Mancini, ed., Handbook on Constitutions and Religion (Edward Elgar Publishers 2019)).
• Brue P. Frohnen, Augustine, Lawyers & The Lost Virtue of Humility, (Catholic University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Anthony Michael Kreis, Policing the Painted and Powdered, (Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 41, 2019, Forthcoming).
• Darryn Jensen, The Boundary between 'Not-for-Profits' and Government, (Matthew Harding (ed), Research Handbook on Not-for-Profit Law (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2018) 153-170).

From SmartCILP:

• Lucien J. Dhooge, The Religious Freedom Restoration Act At 25: A Quantitative Analysis of the Interpretive Case Law, 27 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 153-212 (2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Nathan B. Oman, John Calvin’s Quarrel with Civil Recourse Theory, (Christianity and Private Law, Robert Cochran & Michael Moreland, eds. (Cambridge, UP Forthcoming)).
• Anna Su, Establishment, (Law, Religion, USA (Joshua Dubler & Isaac Weiner eds., NYU Press, 2019)).
• Kent Greenfield, Brief for Professor Kent Greenfield As Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents, State of Washington vs. Arlene's Flowers and Ingersoll vs. Arlene's Flowers, (Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 500 (March 2019)).
• Marc O. DeGirolami, The Traditions of American Constitutional Law, (Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Bret Matera, Divining a Definition: ‘Substantial Burden’ in the Penal Context Under a Post-Holt RLUIPA, (Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Stijin Smet, Conscientious Objection through the Contrasting Lenses of Tolerance and Respect, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion (2019)).
• Roger Colinvaux, Fixing Philanthropy: A Vision for Charitable Giving and Reform, (Tax Notes, Vol. 162, No. 9, p. 1007, 2019).

From SSRN (non-US Law):

• Asim Jusic, An (Un)Exceptional Case: Strasbourg’s Court Reserved Nod to Religious Symbols in the Courtroom, (Forthcoming in Oxford Journal of Law and Religion (2019)).
• Radley Henrico, Proselytising the Regulation of Religious Bodies in South Africa: Suppressing Religious Freedom?, (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 22, 2019).
• Paul Johnson, The 'Gay Cake' Case - Lee (Respondent) v Ashers Baking Company Ltd and Others (Appellants) (Northern Ireland) [2018] UKSC 49, (February 27, 2019).
• Abu Umar Faruq Ahmad, Aishath Muneeza, Mohammad Omar Farooq & Rashedul Hasan, Post-Default Sukuk Restructuring: An Appraisal of Shari’ah Issues , (in Hassan, M. K. and Rashid, M. (eds.). Management of Islamic Finance Principle, Practice, and Performance, International Finance Review, Emerald Publishing, Volume 19, 113, Forthcoming).
• Puranjay K. Vedi, Working Paper: Tracing Burqa in Byzantine Christianity, (October 1, 2018).

From elsewhere:

• USCIRF, Legislation Fact Sheet, Anti-Extremism Laws, (March 2019).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Paula A. Franzese & Angels Carmella, Housing and Hope: Property Law and Catholic Social Teachings, (Forthcoming in Christianity and Private Law (Cochran & Moreland, eds.) (Cambridge Press)).
• Thomas Charles Berg, Freedom to Serve: Religious Organizational Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Common Good , (Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and The Prospects for Common Ground (William Eskridge, Jr. and Robin Fretwell Wilson eds., Cambridge University Press 2018)).
• Thomas Charles Berg, Religious Freedom and Nondiscrimination, (50 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 181 (2018)).
• Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, When Soft Law Meets Hard Politics: Taming the Wild West of Nonprofit Political Involvement, (45 Journal of Legislation (2019, Forthcoming).
• Brian Bird, The Call in Carter to Interpret Freedom of Conscience, (2018) 85:2 Supreme Court Law Review 107-141.
• Tyler Broker, Church And State Originalism,(University of Memphis Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, The Promises and Perils of Using Big Data to Regulate Nonprofits, (94 Washington Law Review (2019, Forthcoming)).

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

• Azadeh Dastyari, Let the Asylum Seekers Stay: Strengths and Weaknesses of Church Sanctuary as a Strategy for Law Reform, (Monash University Law Review, Forthcoming)).
• Patrick Quirk, The Undefined Remains Unprotected: Tensions Between Conscience and the Law in Germany by Way of Joseph Isensee, (Tulane Journal of International & Comparative Law, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2018).
• Bhavya Gupta, Secularism as an Ideology: A Global and Indian Perspective, (November 16, 2018).

From SSRN (Islamic Law);

• Jeffrey A. Redding,The Pakistan Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act of 2018 and Its Impact on the Law of Gender in Pakistan, (February 22, 2019).
• Nafis Alam, Islamic Finance and Business: Capital, Commerce, & Careers, (Proceedings of Harvard University Muslim Alumni Islamic Finance Conference, 2018).
• Saadiya Suleman, Innocence of Muslims: Blasphemy, Islam and Public Disorder - A Holy Analysis, (ILI Law Review Winter Issue 2018 Vol. II).

From SmartCILP:

• Joshua C. Wilson & Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Higher Law: Can Christian Conservatives Transform Law Through Legal Education?, 52 Law & Society Review 835-870 (2018).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Pauline Ridge, Not-for-Profit Law and Freedom of Religion, (Matthew Harding (ed), Research Handbook on Not-for-Profit Law (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2018) 284-303).
• Avishalom Westreich, Present-Day Posthumous Reproduction and Traditional Levirate Marriage: Two Types of Interactions, (Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Forthcoming).
• Howard Kislowicz, Religious Communications Privilege, (Forthcoming, Perspectives on Evidential Privileges, Dr. Christopher D.L. Hunt, ed (Toronto: Thomson Reuters, 2019)).
• Nathan B. Oman, 'We, The People of the Kingdom of God': Constitution Writing in the Council of Fifty, (The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal About Mormon History 55-72 (Matthew J. Grow & R. Eric Smith, eds. (2017)).
• Eric Heinze, No-Platforming and Safe Spaces: Should Universities Censor More (Or Less) Speech than the Law Requires?, (Croatian Political Science Review (December, 2018)).
• Christopher Sundby & Suzanna Sherry, Term Limits and Turmoil: Roe v. Wade's Whiplash, (Texas Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Eric Heinze, Review of: Alex Brown, Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination, (International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs (2018)).
• Ihsan Yilmaz, Erdoğan’s Political Islamist Narrative and Radicalization of the Turkish Muslim Diaspora, (November 18, 2018).
• Nathan J. Brown, Who or What Is the Wali al-Amr: The Unposed Question, (Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Forthcoming).

Recent Books:

• Ellis M. West, The Free Exercise of Religion in America: Its Original Constitutional Meaning, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
•  Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law, (Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2019).
• Duncan Ryūken Williams, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War, (Harvard Univ. Press, Feb. 2019).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Caroline Mala Corbin, Christian Legislative Prayers and Christian Nationalism, (Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 75, 2019).
• Nathan B. Oman, Civil Disobedience in Latter-Day Saint Thought, (William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-388, 2019).
• William Nichol Eskridge, Robin Fretwell Wilson & Andrew M. Koppelman, The Joys of Mutual Contempt, (Chapter 9 in: Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights and the Prospects for Common Ground, (William N. Eskridge & Robin Fretwell Wilson 2018)).
• William Nichol Eskridge, Robin Fretwell Wilson & Alan Edward Brownstein, Choosing among Non-Negotiated Surrender, Negotiated Protection of Liberty and Equality, or Learning and Earning Empathy, (Chapter 9 of Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights and the Propects for Common Ground, (William N. Eskridge & Robin Fretwell Wilson 2018)).
• Scott R. Bauries, The Logic of Speech and Religion Rights in the Public Workplace, 19 Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review 137 (2018).
• Barry Sullivan, Prophesy, Public Theology, and Questions of Justice: Some Modest Reflections, (February 11, 2019).
• Mark Leeming, Injunctions Restraining Enforcement of 'Muslim Ban' Executive Orders, (Australian Law Journal, Vol. 91, 2017, pp 443-447).
• William Nichol Eskridge, Robin Fretwell Wilson & David Saperstein, Masterpiece Cakeshop: Impact on the Search for Common Ground, (Chapter 34 in: Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge & Robin Fretwell Wilson 2018).

From SSRN (International and Comparative Law):

• Asli U. Bali & Hanna Lerner, Religion and Constitution Making in Comparative Perspective, (Chapter written for: Handbook on Comparative Constitution Making, Edited by David Landau and Hanna Lerner, Edward Elgar (2019 Forthcoming).
• Craig B. Mousin, ‘Can One Still Call It Ignorance or Bias? Nexus Test Modified, but Courts Still Fail to Address International Law Under the International Religious Freedom Act’, (Migration and Religious Freedom, Essays on the Interaction Between Religious Duty and Immigration Law, Carolus Grütters & Dario Dzananovic (eds), (Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 2018).
• Beth A. Simmons & Anton Strezhnev, Human Rights and Human Welfare: Looking for a ‘Dark Side’ to International Human Rights Law, (In: The Future of Human Rights 60-87 (Jack Snyder et al. eds., Cambridge University Press, 2018).
• Stijn Smet, Free Speech versus Religious Feelings, the Sequel: Defamation of the Prophet Muhammad in E.S. v Austria, (European Constitutional Law Review, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP;

• Theresa Finley & Mark Koyama, Plague, Politics, and Pogroms: The Black Death, the Rule of Law, and the Persecution of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire, [Abstract], 61 Journal of Law & Economics 253-277 (2018).
• David Nimmer, Miriam's Oasis, 34 Touro Law Review 983-993 (2018).
• Alexander B. Traum, Applied Anti-Semitism: The BDS Movement and the Abuse of Corporate Social Responsibility, 34 Touro Law Review 1025-1060 (2018).
• Donald L. Beschle, Are Two Clauses Really Better Than One? Rethinking the Religion Clause(s), 80 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 1-32 (2018).
• Kristen Stilt, Salma Waheedi & Swathi Gandhavadi Griffin, The Ambitions of Muslim Family Law Reform, 41 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 301-342 (2018).
• Allan W. Vestal, Religious State Constitution Preambles, 123 Pennsylvania State Law Review 151-190 (2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Ronald J. Rychlak, Book Review: András Fejérdy, Editor, the Vatican “Ostpolitik” 1958–1978: Responsibility and Witness During John XXIII and Paul VI, (22 Catholic Social Science Review).
• Michael O. Leavitt, Shared Spaces and Brave Gambles, in Religious Freedom, (Chapter 33 in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds.), 2018).
• J. Stuart Adams, Cultivating Common Ground: Lessons from Utah for Living With Our Differences, (Chapter 32,Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., 2018).
• Elder Von G. Keetch, Toward Collaboration: A Perspective from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Chapter 14 in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights and the Prospects for Common Ground(William N. Eskridge & Robin Fretwell Wilson,eds. 2018).
• Adrienne Stone, Viewpoint Discrimination, Hate Speech Law and the Double-Sided Nature of Freedom of Speech, (Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2017, 687-696).
• Tarunabh Khaitan, The Point of Discrimination Law, (The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Policy in India and the US (Martha Nussbaum, Zoya Hasan, Aziz Huq, Vidhu Verma eds, OUP 2018)).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Michael S. McGinniss, Expressing Conscience with Candor: Saint Thomas More and First Freedoms in the Legal Profession, (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Forthcoming).
• Robert C. Blitt, The Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) Response to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Rights: A Challenge to Equality and Nondiscrimination Under International Law, (28.1 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 89 (2019)).
• Nathan S. Chapman, Money for Missionaries: Rethinking Establishment Clause History, (University of Georgia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-10 (2019).
• Dr. Krishnan Mani, Religious Militant Extremism in Pakistan: Security Threat to South Asian Region and Challenges, (February 11, 2019).
• Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema, Islamization of Restitution of Conjugal Rights by Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan: A Critique, (February 5, 2019).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Mark Fathi Massoud, How an Islamic State Rejected Islamic Law, 66 American Journal of Comparative Law 579-602 (2018).
• Ferdaouis Bagga, Central Nigeria: Overcoming Dangerous Speech and Endemic Religious Divides, (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Feb. 2019).

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• Puranjay K. Vedi, Working Paper: Muslims, Their Identity and Discontent in India, (October 1, 2018).
• Puranjay K. Vedi, Working Paper: Decoding Anandpur Sahib Resolution, (November 19, 2018).
• Puranjay K. Vedi, Working Paper: A Brief Introduction to Old Russia, (November 19, 2018).
• Kathryn Chan & Howard Kislowicz, Divine Intervention, Part I: A Study of the Operation and Impact of Non-Governmental Interveners in Canadian Religious Freedom Litigation, ((2019) 90 SCLR (2d) Forthcoming).
• Ronald James Krotoszynski, 'The Devil Is in the Details': On the Central Importance of Distinguishing the Truly Public from the Truly Private in Reconciling Equality and Religious Liberty, (Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Cambridge University Press 2018) (Chapter 7)),
• Howard Kislowicz & Senwung Luk, Recontextualizing Ktunaxa Nation v. British Columbia: Crown Land, History and Indigenous Religious Freedom, ((2019) 88 S.C.L.R. (2d) 205-229).
• Lonen Titia, In Search of An EU Approach to Headscarf Bans: Where to Go after Achbita and Bougnaoui?, (Review of European Administrative Law; Vol. 10, Nr. 2, 47-73 (2017).
• Gautam Bhatia, Caste and the Law (January 30, 2019).

From SmartCILP:

• Jamal Greene, Rights As Trumps? 132 Harvard Law Review 28-132 (2018).
• John Medeiros & Philip Steger, Sanctuary and Harboring in Trump's America. 44 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 869-906 (2018).
• James A. Sonne, Cross-Cultural Lawyering and Religion: A Clinical Perspective, 25 Clinical Law Review 223-268 (2018).

Recent Book:

• Douglas Laycock, Religious Liberty (set of 5 volumes), (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, Nov. 2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Smadar Ben-Natan, Controversy and Consensus, Pornography and Hate Speech: The Legal Challenge to the Playboy Channel, (Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking in Women: Israel's Blood Money, Esther Hertzog and Erella Shadmi, eds. 195-206, Routledge, 2019).
• Thomas McMorrow, MAID in Canada?: Debating the Constitutionality of Canada’s New Medical Assistance in Dying Law, (44:1 Queen's LJ 69 (2018).
• Marta Machado & Rebecca J. Cook, Constitutionalizing Abortion in Brazil, (Revista de Investigações Constitucionais / Journal of Constitutional Research, Curitiba, vol. 5, n. 3, p. 185-231, set./dez. 2018).
• Béligh Elbalti, Equality between Men and Women in the Islamic Law of Inheritance, (2018).
• Ihsan Yilmaz, Unofficial Islamic Legal Knowledge Production, (November 30, 2018).
• Salman Ahmad, Muhammad Amjad & Ejaz Aslam, Types of Interest in Islamic Law Analysis and Application, (Pakistan Journal of Islamic Research, Vol: 18, Issue: 2, 2018).
• Daniel Jacob Hemel, Tangled Up in Tax: The Nonprofit Sector and the Federal Tax System, (Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook (3rd edition, Patricia Bromley & Walter Powell eds., Stanford University Press, 2019 Forthcoming)).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Christopher C. Lund, Religious Exemptions, Third-Party Harms, and the False Analogy to Church Taxes, (Kentucky Law Journal, Vol. 106, p. 679, 2018 (symposium)).
• Petro Kurmaiev, Prostitution: The Essence and Motives, (July 23, 2018).
• Samuel Wolfe Calhoun, If Separation of Church and State Doesn’t Demand Separating Religion from Politics, Does Christian Doctrine Require It?, (74 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 565 (2019)).
• Siraj Khan, Arab and Islamic States’ Practice: The Sharíʿah Clause and Its Effects on the Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, (in Tallyn Gray (editor), Islam and International Criminal Law and Justice, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, Brussels, 2018).

From SmartCILP:

• Richard D. Komer, Trinity Lutheran and the Future of Educational Choice: Implications for State Blaine Amendments, 44 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 551-613 (2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Richard Rice, Can a Christian Be a Corporate Lawyer? Tracing Corporate Law's Religious Roots and Identifying How We Can Integrate Our Faith and Work, (January 1, 2019).
• Michael A. Helfand, Jews and the Culture Wars: Consensus and Dissensus in Jewish Religious Liberty Advocacy, (San Diego Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Jianlin Chen, Joyous Buddha, Holy Father, and Dragon God Desiring Sex: A Case Study of Rape by Religious Fraud in Taiwan, (13(2) National Taiwan University Law Review 183-237 (2018)).
• John Witte, The McDonald Distinguished Christian Scholars Conference: Is Religious Liberty Under Threat? Trans-Atlantic Perspectives, (Ecclesiastical Law Journal 20 (2018): 339-41).
• Cekli Setya Pratiwi, The Permissible Scope of Legal Limitation on Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) and Freedom of Expression (FoE) under International Human Rights Law (IHRL): The Study of Blasphemy Cases in Indonesia,(January 9, 2019).
• Prakash Shah, Sacerdotal Violence and the Caste System: The Long Shadow of Christian-Orientalism, (Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 302/2019).
• Brendan Williams, NIFLA v. Beccera: Abortion Speech Only as Free as the Supreme Court Wants It to Be, (13 Charleston Law Review 89 (2018)).
• W. Burlette Carter, Sexism in the 'Bathroom Debates': How Bathrooms Really Became Separated By Sex, (Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2018).
• Zamir Iqbal & Friedemann Roy, Innovative Islamic Social Finance for Housing Microfinance, (Islamic Economic Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2018).

From SmartCILP:

• Michael S. Talbot, The Challenge of Trokosi: Ritual Servitude and the Framework of International Human Rights Law, 31 Harvard Human Rights Journal 1-32 (2018).
• Nicholas J. Hunt, Let Us Pray: The Case for Legislator-Led Prayer. 54 Tulsa Law Review 49-79 (2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Ahmed E. Taha &Sohaib Khan, Charity Disparity: The Challenge of Applying Religious Law on Zakat in the United States, (Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2018).
• Michael A. Helfand, From Doctrine to Devotion: The Jewish Comparative Law Project, (American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 67, 2019 Forthcoming).
• Fajiri Muhammadin & Thara Wahab, Fiqh al-Jihād in Modern Warfare: Analyzing Prospects and Challenges with Reference to International Humanitarian Law, (IIUM Law Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2 (2018)).
• Wayne Barnes, Reconsidering Christianity as a Support for Secular Law: A Final Reply to Professor Calhoun, (Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper (2019)).
• David L. Sloss & Wayne Sandholtz, Universal Human Rights and Constitutional Change, (William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Forthcoming).
• Daniel Bewel, The Murder of My Unborn Siblings: A Breach of the Constitutional Right to Life of the Unborn, (August 15, 2018).
• Catherine Martin Christopher, Nevertheless She Persisted: Comparing Roe v. Wade's Two Oral Arguments, (49 Seton Hall L. Rev. 307 (2018)).
• Md.Salman Sohel, The Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar: Origin and Emergence, (Saudi J. Humanities Soc. Sci.; Vol-2, Iss-11A (Nov, 2017)).
• Zubair Abbasi, From Faskh to Khula: Transformation of Muslim Women’s Right to Divorce in Pakistan (1947-2017), (December 29, 2018).

From SmartCILP:

• Omri Ben-Zvi, The Unavailability of Religious Arguments, 54 Idaho Law Review 703-728 (2018).
• Frederick B. Jonassen, The "Ave Maria" Effect, 54 Idaho Law Review 729-811 (2018).
• Islamic Law, Society, and the State. Introduction by Tamir Moustafa, Jeffrey Adam Sachs; articles by Mona Oraby, Katherine Lemons, Jeffrey Adam Sachs, Michael G. Peletz, Tamir Moustafa. 52 Law & Society Review 560-708 (2018).
• Cesar Arjona & Greg Jehle, Islamic Law and the Limits of Amorality: Reconceptualizing the Legal Ethics of Transnational Islamic Finance, [Abstract], 27 Transnational Law Contemporary Problems 249-275 (2018).
• Religious Freedom. Articles by Robin Fretwell Wilson, David Orentlicher, Shaakirrah R. Sanders, David M. Smolin, Allison M. Whelan. 8 UC Irvine Law Review 583-759 (2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Mary Case, Trans Formations in the Vatican's War on 'Gender Ideology', (44 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society __ (2019, Forthcoming)).
• Sam Bookman, Book Review: Freedom of Religious Organizations by Jane Calderwood Norton,  ((2017) 23 Auckland U L Rev.).
• Perry Dane, Robert Cover and Legal Pluralism, (December 18, 2018).
• Suman Acharya, Jurisprudence of Law and State; An Experience of Nepal ,(December 12, 2018).
• James Loeffler, 'A Certain Kind of Liberalism': Jewish Minority Rights in Eastern Europe and Beyond, 1848-1948, (Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A New History, eds. Abigail Green and Simon Levis Sullam (Indiana University Press, Forthcoming)).
• Is Secularism a Non-Negotiable Aspect of Liberal Constitutionalism?, Articles by Frank S. Ravitch, Alan Brownstein, Gabor Halmai, Bruce Ledewitz, Yaniv Roznai, Jaclyn L. Neo. 2017 Michigan State Law Review 149-370.
• Giancarlo Anello, Europe and the Ummah: A Legal Inquiry on the Condition of the Muslim Community in a Transforming Continent, (November 16, 2018).
• Kyriaki Topidi, The Culturalization of Religion and the Pursuit of Diversity: Co-Existence within Difference in South Africa, (Christa Rautenbach (ed.), In the Shade of an African Baobab: Tom Bennett’s Legacy, Juta Publishers, pp. 106- 122, 2018).
• Shivaraj Huchhanavar, Introduction to Natural Justice, (September 8, 2018).
• Islam Abdel Magid, Gender Equality: Islamic Law and Legal Validity, (Magalãt Al-Dȋmouqraţyah, 2018).
• Wiliam Echikson & Olivia Knodt, Germany’s NetzDG: A Key Test for Combatting Online Hate, (CEPS Policy Insight, 2018).
• John Picton, Donor Intention and Dialectic Legal Policy Frames, (Research Handbook on Not-for Profit Law, Edward Elgar, 2018).

2018 Law and Religion Bibliography Now Available

The Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and Religion has published its Annual Bibliography.  The 21-page bibliography lists journal articles, special journal issues, monographs and edited volumes published in 2018 on law and religion topics.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Dwight G. Newman, Arguing Indigenous Rights Outside Section 35: Can Religious Freedom Ground Indigenous Land Rights, and What Else Lies Ahead?, (Tom Isaac, ed., Key Developments in Aboriginal Law (Toronto: ThomsonReuters Canada, 2018)),
• Teresa Stanton Collett, A Catholic Perspective on Law School Diversity Requirements, (U of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-27 (2018).
• Chloë Kennedy, Defences: Justification, Excuse and Provocation. (in Norman Doe, Mark Hill & John Witte (eds), Christianity and Criminal Law: An Introduction (CUP, 2019)),
• Christof Bezemek, Stranger in a Strange Land: The Alien and the State, (In Julia Iliopoulos-Strangas, ed., Migration: Neue Herausforderungen für Europa, für die Staatssou-veränität und für den sozialen Rechtsstaat (2017)),
• Gary J. Simson, Permissible Accommodation or Impermissible Endorsement? A Proposed Approach to Religious Exemptions and the Establishment Clause, (106 Kentucky Law Journal 535 (2017-2018)).
• Barry McDonald & Erwin Chemerinsky, Eviscerating a Healthy Church-State Separation, (Washington University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Bogdan David, Prevention and Fight Against Harvest and Revenge Motivated Crimes, (November 20, 2018).
• Christopher R. Green, Justice Gorsuch and Moral Reality, (Alabama Law Review, Forthcoming),
• Teresa Quintel  & Carsten Ullrich, Self-Regulation of Fundamental Rights? The EU Code of Conduct on Hate Speech, Related Initiatives and Beyond, (Bilyana Petkova & Tuomas Ojanen, eds., Fundamental Rights Protection Online: The Future Regulation Of Intermediaries, Edward Elgar Publishing, Summer/Autumn 2019).

From SSRN (Law of India):

• G. V. Mahesh Nath, Latest Trends in Succession among Hindus, (November 23, 2018).
• Deepa Das Acevedo, Pause for Thought: Supreme Court's Verdict on Sabarimala, (Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. LIII, No. 43, p. 12 (October 27, 2018)).
• Adeel Hussain, Muhammad Iqbal's Constitutionalism, (Indian Law Review, 2:2 (2018)),

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Ousmane Seck, Islamic Microfinance Experience in a Secular State: Case of Benin, (IRTI Policy Paper No. 2017-05 (2017),
• Mohammed Obaidullah, Managing Climate Change: The Role of Islamic Finance, (IRTI Policy Paper No. 2017-01 (2017).
• Mohammed Obaidullah, An Investigation into Goodness of Zakat Laws in Selected Countries, (IRTI Policy Paper No. 2017-04 (2017)),
• Khalifa MohamedæAli, Waqf Resource Mobilization for Poverty Alleviation Based on Maqasid Framework, (IRTI Policy Paper No. 2018-03 (2018)).
• Azam Ali, Tanveer Kishwar & Muhamed Zulkhibri, Islamic Financial Institutions and Participatory Finance Constraints: The Case of Pakistan, (IRTI Policy Paper No. 2018-02 (2018)).
• Jakub Vojtěch, The EU Framework for Islamic Securitisation and Sukuk in the Times of Brexit, (Charles University in Prague Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2018/III/2 (2018)).

From elsewhere:

• Steven H. Sholk, A Guide to Election Year Activities of Section 501(c)(3) Organizations (updated version, 2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Mark Movsesian, Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Future of Religious Freedom, (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Forthcoming).
• Marc Tizoc González, Criminalizing Charity: Can First Amendment Free Exercise of Religion, RFRA, and RLUIPA Protect People Who Share Food in Public? (2017). 7 U.C. Irvine L. Rev 291 (2017).
• Yvonne Tew, Stealth Theocracy, ( Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 58, No. 31, 2018).
• F. Mnyongani & Magda Slabbert, A Jehovah’s Witness’s Autonomy versus the Interests of Her Children – ES v AC Mnyonfd, (Journal of Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law, Vol. 81, p. 316-325, 2018).
• Joshua Moir & Julia Wagner, The Idea of Religious Neutrality and the Cooperation Model Compared in Germany, Austria and Italy, (University of Milano-Bicocca School of Law Research Paper No. 18-13 (2018).
• Constanza Nardocci, Equality & Non-discrimination between the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Challenges and Perspectives in the Religious Discourse, (University of Milano-Bicocca School of Law Research Paper No. 18-12 (2018).
• Sina Haydn-Quindeau, Religious Symbols in Public Space: The German Way, (University of Milano-Bicocca School of Law Research Paper No. 18-14 (2018).
• Wojciech Brzozowski, Is Islam Incompatible with European Identity?, (University of Milano-Bicocca School of Law Research Paper No. 18-15 (2018),

From SSRN (Writings by John Witte):

• John Witte, Founding Principles, Secular Skeptics, and Religious Freedom: Review of Kathleen A. Brady, the Distinctiveness of Religion in American Law: Rethinking Religion Clause Jurisprudence, (Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 32, 2018).
• John Witte & Justin Latterell, The Little Commonwealth: The Family as Matrix of Markets and Morality in Early Protestantism, (in Ted A. Smith and Robert P. Jones, eds., Markets and Morality: Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality, 2018).
• John Witte & Brian Kaufman, Law and Religion in American Education, (in Michael D. Waggoner and Nathan C. Walker, eds.,The Oxford Handbook on Religion and Education, 2018).
• John Witte, Law and the Protestant Reformation, (in Heikki Pihlajamäki, Markus Dubber & Mark Godfrey, eds., Oxford Handbook of European Legal History (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 583-610, 2018).
• John Witte, Foreword, (to Rex Ahdar, ed., Research Handbook on Law and Religion (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2018), xii-xviii).
• John Witte, Faith in Law: The Legal and Political Legacy of the Protestant Reformations, (John Witte, Jr. and Amy Wheeler, eds., The Reformation of the Church and the World (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2018), 105-38).

From SmartCILP:

• Amihai Radzyner, Rabbis Drafting Criminal Legislation: The Shaping of the Prohibition Against Bigamy for Jews in Mandatory Palestine, [Abstract], 66 American Journal of Comparative Law 369-410 (2018).
• Symposium: Christian Legal Thought. Introduction by student editors Liam Ray, Nicholas A. DiMarco; contributions by Randy Beck, David A. Skeel Jr., Angela C. Carmella, Michael P. Moreland, Richard W. Garnett. 56 Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 1-83 (2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Giovanni Zaccaroni, Non-discrimination on the Ground of Religion: A Fundamental Element of the EU Constitutional Legal Order?, (University of Milano-Bicocca School of Law Research Paper No. 18-01 (2018).).
• M. C. Mirow, Léon Duguit and the Social Function of Property in Argentina , (In Paul Babie and Jessica Viven-Wilksch, eds., Léon Duguit and the Social Obligation Norm of Property: A Translation and Global Exploration. Cham: Springer, Forthcoming).
• Damir Banović & Ehlimana Memišević, Law and Religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina (December 7, 2018).
• Philippe Lord,  The Eternal Commitment: Scientology's Billion-Year Contract, (December 7, 2018).
• William P., Marshall, Third-Party Burdens and Conscientious Objection to War,(2018), (Kentucky Law Journal, Vol. 106, 2019).
• Piotr Godzisz, The Europeanization of Anti-LGBT Hate Crime Laws in the Western Balkans, (Crime, Law and Social Change, Forthcoming).
• David Adam Friedman, Bringing Candor to Charitable Solicitations, (Maryland Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Raff Donelson & Ivar Hannikainen, Fuller and the Folk: The Inner Morality of Law Revisited, (Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, Volume 3. Oxford: UK, Oxford University Press, Forthcoming).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Richard W. Garnett, 'There Are No Ordinary People': Christian Humanism and Christian Legal Thought, (56 J. Cath. Leg. Stud. 77 (2017)).
• Kevin M. Barry, The Death Penalty & The Fundamental Right to Life,(November 20, 2018).
• Tarunabh Khaitan & Jane Calderwood Norton, The Right to Freedom of Religion and the Right against Religious Discrimination: Theoretical Distinctions, (Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper (Oct. 2018)).
• Tarunabh Khaitan & Jane Calderwood Norton, Religion in Human Rights Law: A Normative Restatement, (Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper (Oct. 2018)).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson & Shaakirrah Sanders, By Faith Alone: When Religious Beliefs and Child Welfare Collide, (Chapter in: The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law, May 2018, Cambridge University Press).
• Perry Dane, Corporations, (Routledge Companion to Economic Theology, Forthcoming).
• David L. Hudson, Justice Kennedy and the First Amendment, (9 HLRe 49 (2019)).
• David Eliot Bernstein, The Boundaries of Antidiscrimination Laws, (George Mason University Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 18-34 (2018)).

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

• Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, The Control of Hate Speech on Social Media: Lessons from Sri Lanka, (CPR South, 2018, Policy Brief).
• Mohammad Fadel, Modern Islamic International Law between Accommodation and Resistance: The Case of Israel and BDS, (19 Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (2016-2017), pp. 247-78 (December 13, 2018, Forthcoming).
• Kyriaki Pavlidou, Religious Expression in the Workplace Before the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union: Discriminating Against a Fundamental Right?, (Applying Non-Discrimination Law, Goulas D. and Kofinis St. (eds.), Hellenic League for Human Rights, Thessaloniki, 2018, pp. 146-193).
• Tarunabh Khaitan, Discrimination, (Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, 2017).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Bob Rush & Steve Sanders, Brief Amici Curiae of Scholars of Law, History, Bioethics, Gender, and Sexuality in Good v. Iowa Dept of Human Resources, (November 4, 2018).
• Marc Greendorfer, Discrimination as a Business Policy: The Misuse and Abuse of Corporate Social Responsibility Programs, (November 6, 2018).
• Etienne Toussaint, The New Gospel of Wealth: On Social Impact Bonds and the Privatization of Public Good, (56 Hous. L. Rev. 153 (2018)).

From SmartCILP:

• Yehezkel Margalit, Towards Establishing Parenthood by Agreement in Jewish Law, 26 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 647-689 (2018).
• Yolanda Rondon, Treatment of Domestic Terrorism Court Cases: Class and Mental Health in the Criminal System, 26 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 741-792 (2018).
• Symposium on Families and Religion. Articles by Larry O.C. Chukwu, Patrick F. Fagan, William L. Saunders, Lynn D. Wardle. 32 Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law 191-255 (2018).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• Ronald Hutton, The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present, (Yale Univ. Press, Oct. 2018).
• Donald A. Westbrook, Among the Scientologists: History, Theology, and Praxis, (Oxford Univ. Press, Dec. 2018).
• Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: A Fresh Interpretation, (Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2019).
• Giuliana Chamedes, A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe, (Harvard Univ. Press, June 2019).
• Adriano Prosperi, Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe, (Harvard Univ. Press, July 2019).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Marc O. DeGirolami, The Sickness Unto Death of the First Amendment, (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Forthcoming).
• Gerald Lebovits, Holocaust Houdinis (Condensed Remembrance Version), (Just Us 12 (Apr. 2018) (Remembrance Issue No. 7)).
• Benjamin L. Berger, Liberal Constitutionalism and the Unsettling of the Secular, (in Rex Adhar, ed., Research Handbook on Law and Religion (Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar, 2018), 198-220).
• Benjamin L. Berger, Religious Freedom in Canada: A Crucible for Constitutionalism, ([2018] 1 Quaderni di Diritto e Politica Ecclesiastica 111-125).
• Leslie Kendrick & Micah Schwartzman, The Etiquette of Animus, (Harvard Law Review, Vol. I32, No. 1, p. 33-70, 2018).
• Benjamin L. Berger, Assessing Adler: The Weight of Constitutional History and the Future of Religious Freedom, (National Journal of Constitutional Law (2018 Forthcoming)).
• Faisal Bhabha, Religious Freedom in a Multicultural Society, (Cardus Law Research Series on Religious Freedom (January 2017)).
• Zachary Price, Symmetric Constitutionalism: An Essay on Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Post-Kennedy Supreme Court, 70 Hastings L.J., Forthcoming).
• Steven Douglas Smith, An Open Letter to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, (2018).
• Rebecca Ruth Gould, Is the ‘Hate’ in Hate Speech the ‘Hate’ in Hate Crime? Waldron and Dworkin on Political Legitimacy, (Forthcoming, Jurisprudence).
• Joseph A. Seiner, The Discrimination Presumption, (Notre Dame Law Review, 2019 (Forthcoming)).

From SmartCILP:

• Erin E. Stiles, How to Manage a Marital Dispute: Legal Pluralism from the Ground Up in Zanzibar, 8 U.C. Irvine Law Review 275-297 (2018).