Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Thomas Scott-Railton, A Legal Sanctuary: How the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) Could Protect Sanctuary Churches, (Yale Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Tamar Hostovsky Brandes, Israel's Nation-State Law – What Now for Equality, Self-Determination, and Social Solidarity?, (October 1, 2018).
• Jan Petrov, The Populist Challenge to the European Court of Human Rights, (The Jean Monnet Working Paper Series (NYU School of Law) 3/18 (2018).
• Eric Segall, Putting the 'Exercise' Back in the Free Exercise, (Kentucky Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Elizabeth Kukura, Revisiting Roe to Advance Reproductive Justice for Childbearing Women, (Notre Dame Law Review Online, Vol. 94, 2018).
• Deborah Hellman, The Epistemic Commitments of Nondiscrimination, (Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2018-60 (2018).
• Yaoyao Fan, Kose John, Hong Liu & Luqyan Tamanni, Security Design, Incentives, and Islamic Microfinance: Cross Country Evidence, (October 14, 2018).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Judge Shams Al Din Al Hajjaji,  Government By Judiciary In Islam: Islamic Theory of Government and Mal/practice of Muslim Governments (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Morocco), 48 California Western International Law Journal 283-339 (2018).
• Babak Manouchehrifar, Is Planning ‘Secular’? Rethinking Religion, Secularism, and Planning, [Abstract], Planning Theory and Practice (2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Elizabeth A. Brown & Inara Scott, Belief v. Belief: Resolving LGBTQ Rights Conflicts in the Religious Workplace, (American Business Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• John Melcon, Thou Art Fired: A Conduct View of Title VII's Religious Employer Exemption, (Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Forthcoming).
• Louis W. Hensler, Moses’ Restatement of Torts: Modern Principles of Justice and Efficiency in the Mishpatim, (October 10, 2018).
• Sohail Wahedi, Abstraction from the Religious Dimension, (Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2017-2018).
• Alisha Patton, Harris and Whole Woman’s Health Collide: No Funding Provisions Unduly Burden Reproductive Freedom, (Hastings Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Sam Fox Krauss, Moral Market Design, (Kansas Journal of Law & Pubic Policy, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2019).
• Ji Ma, Funding Nonprofits in a Networked Society: Two Modes of Crowding Mechanism of Government Support, (July 17, 2018).
• Timothy M. Todd, Exogeneity vs. Endogeneity in Section 170’s Quid Pro Quo Test, (State Tax Notes, Vol. 90, pp. 37-44, Oct. 1, 2018; Tax Notes, Vol. 161, pp. 65-72, Oct. 1, 2018).

From SSRN (European and Australian Law):

• Eva Brems , Saïla Ouald Chaib & Katrijn Vanhees, 'Burkini' Bans in Belgian Municipal Swimming Pools: Banning As a Default Option, (Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, December 2018).
• Brett Crumley, & John Picton, Still Standing? Cy-près and Charitable Service Users in the First-tier Tribunal (Charity), (Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, (2018) 82 Conv 262 – 279).
• Ian Ramsay & Corinne Tan, Social Impact Bonds in Australia, (Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2018, pp. 248-257).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Fajri Muhammadin, Dian Agung Wicaksono, Almonika Sari & Ola Ayutama,  Lashing in Qanun Aceh and the Convention Against Torture: A Critical Appraisal, (Jurnal Media Syariah, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2018)).
• Vina Berliana Kimberly, Novita Dwi Lestari &  and Fajri Muhammadin, Incorporating Qawaidh Fiqhiyyah to the 'Principles of Law' Chapter in the Introduction to Jurisprudence Course in Indonesia's Legal Education, (Proceeding of the International Conference on Research in Islamic Education (ICRIE), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2018).
• Nurizal Ismail, Fajri Muhammadin & Hanindito Danusatya, The Urgency to Incorporate Maqasid Shari’ah as an Eludication of ‘Benefit’ as a Purpose of Law in Indonesia’s Legal Education, (Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Law, Technology, and Society (ICOLESS) 2018, Batu, Indonesia, October 24-25, 2018).

From SmartCILP:

• Logan A. Yelderman, Monica K. Miller & Alicia DeVault, Led By the Spirit: Integrating Social Science and Law to Better Understand the Impact of Jurors' Religious Beliefs, [Abstract], 9 Faulkner Law Review 227-249 (2018).
• John H. Calvert, The Absence of Religious Neutrality in K-12 Public Science Education, 12 Liberty University Law Review 571-662 (2018).
• Anton Sorkin, Make Law, Not War: Solving the Faith/Equality Crisis, 12 Liberty University Law Review 663-734 (2018).
• Shael Herman, The Acre Bible: Recasting Hebrew Scripture for Crusaders and the Christian Flock, 33 Tulane European & Civil Law Forum 75-100 (2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Effie Fokas, The Legal Status of Religious Minorities: Exploring the Impact of the European Court of Human Rights, (Social Compass, 2017, 65(1), 25-42).
• Haniff Ahamat & Nasarudin Abdul Rahman, Halal Food, Market Access and Exception to WTO Law: New Aspects Learned from Indonesia — Chicken Products, (Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 355-373, September 2018).
• Wayne Barnes, The Paradox of Christian-Based Political Advocacy: A Reply to Professor Calhoun, (74 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 489 (2018)).
• Helen M. Alvare, Is This Any Way to Make Civil Rights Law? Judicial Extension of 'Marital Status' Nondiscrimination to Protect Cohabitants, (Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Forthcoming).
• Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque & Andrea Scoseria Katz, Is Religion a Threat to Human Rights? Or is It the Other Way Around? Defending Individual Autonomy in the ECtHR's Jurisprudence on Freedom of Religion, (Religion and International Law: Living Together 277-293 (Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack, Evelyne La-grange, and Stefan Oeter eds. 2018)).
• Effie Fokas, The Secular Court?, (November 1, 2016).
• ZW Taylor, Sources of Free Speech in U.S. Higher Education: What the Law Tells Us, (September 27, 2018).
• Thomas Colby, The Other Half Of The Abortion Right, (20 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1043 (2018)).
• Pooja Dadhania, Deporting Undesirable Women, (9 UC Irvine L. Rev. 53 (2018)).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Paul T. Babie & Joshua Neoh, A Statement on Inclusive Law and Religion, (39 Adelaide Law Review 203 (2018).
• David Hughes, The United States Embassy in Jerusalem: Does Location Matter?, (50 Questions of International Law 15 (2018).
• James M. Oleske, Free Exercise (Dis)Honesty, (Wisconsin Law Review, Forthcoming 2019).
• Clare Huntington, Abortion Talk, (Michigan Law Review, 2019).
• Dalhatu Sani Yola, Hate Speech in Nigeria: Opportunity in Crisis, (International Journal of Crime, Law and Social Issues, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2017).
• Eric Franklin Amarante, Unregulated Charity, (August 6, 2018).

From Academia.edu:

• Deborah Thebault & Lena Rose, What kind of Christianity?  A v Switzerland, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2018).

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• Pryor, C. Scott, Revisiting Unconscionability: Reciprocity and Justice, (September 14, 2018).
• Cyra Akila Choudhury, Property Lawfare: Historical Racism and Present Islamophobia in Anti-Mosque Activism, (Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-15 (2018).
• Manoj Mate, Constitutional Erosion and the Challenge to Secular Democracy in India, (Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? (Mark Graber, Sanford Levinson, Mark Tushnet, eds., Oxford University Press, 2018 Forthcoming)).
• Marie T. Reilly, Catholic Dioceses in Bankruptcy, (Penn State Law Research Paper No. 10-2018 (2018).
• Josh Blackman, The Travel Bans, (Cato Supreme Court Review 29 (2018)).
• Martha F. Davis & Risa Kaufman, Truth is Truth: U.S. Abortion Law in the Global Context, (American Constitution Society Issue Brief, August 2018).
• Clarke Forsythe, A Draft Opinion Overruling Roe v. Wade, (Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 16, No. 445, 2018).

From SmartCILP:

• Symposium on Nelson Tebbe's Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age,  Contributions by Nelson Tebbe, Chad Flanders, Laura S. Underkuffler, Carlos A. Ball. 31 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 131-245 (2018).

New Book:

• Rex Ahdar (ed.), Research Handbook on Law and Religion, (Edward Elgar Publishing, Sept. 2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Nomi Maya Stolzenberg, From Eternity to Here: Divine Accommodation and the Lost Language of Law, (USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 18-2 (2018)).
• Patrick McKinley Brennan, Forgiveness No Matter What: Justice and Love Among Equals, (September 2018).
• Ioana Cismas, The Position of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Abortion: Not Too Bad, Ugly, or Just Confusing?, (Marie Juul Petersen and Turan Kayaoglu (eds), The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Human Rights: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018 Forthcoming)).
• Dana Phillips, Ishaq v Canada: 'Social Science Facts' in Feminist Interventions, (Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Vol. 35, 2018).
• Joel Harrison, The Problem and the Promise of Religious Liberty, (Forthcoming, Paul Babie, Neville Rochow, and Brett Scharffs (eds), Freedom of Religion or Belief: Creating the Constitutional Space for Other Fundamental Freedoms (Edward Elgar)).
• Aliza Cover, The Pope and the Capital Juror, (Yale Law Journal Forum (Forthcoming)).
• Kyriaki Topidi, The Unfinished Education: Power, Religion and Education Struggles in Multicultural Israel, (Normative Pluralism and Human Rights: Social Normativities in Conflict, ed. by Kyriaki Topidi, Routledge, 2018).
• Muhammad Ahmad, Revisiting the Discourse on Islam and Human Rights, (Kardan Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 1:1 (2018), 93-99).

From SmartCILP:

• Albert C. Lin, Pope Francis' Encyclical on the Environment as Private Environmental Governance. 9 George Washington Journal of Energy & Environmental Law 33-44 (2018).
• Alex Deagon, Liberal Secularism and Religious Freedom in the Public Space: Reforming Political Discourse, 41 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 901-934 (2018).
• Symposium, 46 Capital University Law Review, No.. 3, Summer, 2018.
• Responses to Early Drafts of Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age. Contributions by Nelson Tebbe, Alan Brownstein, Patricia Marino, Andrew Koppelman. 31 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 1-130 (2018).
• Donald L. Beschle, No More Tiers? Proportionality as an Alternative to Multiple Levels of Scrutiny in Individual Rights Cases, 38 Pace Law Review 384-436 (2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Faisal Kutty, Blasphemy and Apostasy 'Laws' in the Muslim World: A Critical Analysis, (Research Handbook on Islamic Law and Society (Nadirsyah Hosen, ed., Forthcoming)).
• Bruce Ledewitz, The Resurrection of Trust in American Law and Public Discourse, (Duquesne University Law Review, Vol. 56, 2018; Duquesne University School of Law Research Paper No. 2018-16).
• D. A. Jeremy Telman, Originalism as Fable (Reviewing Eric Segall, Originalism as Faith), (August 29, 2018).
• Maliheh Zare, Creating Laws for Economic Growth in a Hybrid Islamic Legal System, (Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Gila Stopler, How Could Religious Liberty Be a Human Right: A Reply to Andrew Koppelman, (Forthcoming in 16(3) INT’L J. CONST. L.).
• Joni Hersch & Blair Bullock, The Law and Economics of Employment Discrimination Law, (Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 18-41 (2018)).
• Giancarlo Anello, The Phenomenology of Arnaldo Bertola: Legal Categories, Cognitive Interests, Religious Habits, and Their Interaction into the Life of an Italian Colonialist, (July 1, 2018).
• Susanne Lilian Gössl, Open Issues in European International Family Law: Sahyouni, 'Private Divorces' and Islamic Law Under the Rome III Regulation, (The European Legal Forum 2017, pp. 68-74).
• Katie R. Eyer, Statutory Originalism and LGBT Rights, (Wake Forest Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Maliheh Zare, Creating Laws for Economic Growth in a Hybrid Islamic Legal System, (Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Forthcoming).

New Law and Religion Journal

Virginia Wesleyan University's Center for the Study of Religious Freedom has published the first issue (full text) of a new on-line journal, Religio et Lex. The journal's call for papers says it:

seeks submissions of quality papers on any aspect of the intersection of religion(s) and law, including the experience of religious adherents under secular legal systems and examinations of religious legal systems...

The journal will publish both student and faculty papers. A link to Religio et. Lex has been added to the Religion Clause sidebar under "Journals".

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Kyle Fields, Tohono O'odham Legal Systems, (August 1, 2018).
• Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema, Indigenization of Restitution of Conjugal Rights in Pakistan: A Plea for its Abolition, (August 28, 2018).
• Stephen M. Bainbridge, Restoring Confidence in the Roman Catholic Church: Corporate Governance Analogies, (UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-32 (2018).
• Amanda Shanor, First Amendment Coverage, (93 New York University Law Review 318 (2018)).
• Steven Douglas Smith, 'Fixed Star' or Twin Star? the Ambiguity of Barnette, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-363 (2018)).
• Serena Mayeri, Intersectionality and the Constitution of Family Status, (Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 32, Pg. 377, 2017).
• Lisa Chiyemi Ikemoto, Reproductive Rights and Justice: A Multiple Feminist Theories Account, (in Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence (Robin West and Cynthia Bowman eds., Elgar Press, Forthcoming).
• Shannon Gilreath, A Comprehensive Rethinking of Equal Protection Post-Obergefell: A Plea for Substantivity in Law, (Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper (2018)).
• Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema, Revisiting Abdul Kadir v Salima: Locus Classicus on Civil Nature of Marriage?, (August 01, 2018).
• Avishai Benish, Dana Halevy & Shimon Spiro, Regulating Social Welfare Services: Between Compliance and Learning, (Forthcoming in International Journal of Social Welfare).

From SSRN (Legal issues relating to sexual orientation and religion):

• John G. Culhane, The Right to Say, But Not to Do: Balancing First Amendment Freedom of Expression with the Anti-Discrimination Imperative, (Widener Law Review, Vol. 24, 2018).
• Robert Leckey, Religion and Same-Sex Marriage, (In David Koussens, Benjamin Prud’homme & Safa Ben Saad (eds), La religion en droit de la famille: Le religieux comme variable de prise de décision dans un droit familial laïcisé [2019 Forthcoming]).
• Nausica Palazzo, The Strange Pairing: Building Alliances between Queer Activists and Conservative Groups to Recognize New Families, )Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, Vol. 25, No. 2, Fall 2018, Forthcoming).
• Thomas C. Berg, Masterpiece Cakeshop: A Romer for Religious Objectors?, (2017 Cato Supreme Court Review 139).
• Jordan Blair Woods, Religious Exemptions and LGBTQ Child Welfare, (Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 103 (May 2019, Forthcoming)).
• Robert C. Blitt, Leveraging Regional Human Rights Mechanisms Against Universal Human Rights: The OIC Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission Study on Sexual Orientation, (William & Mary Law Review Online, Vol. 60(1) 2018).
• Steven Douglas Smith, Obergefell and the Reconstituting of America, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-364 (2018)).
• Justin O'Neill, The Queer Case of the LGBT Movement, (41 University of Hawaii Law Review (2019 Forthcoming)).

From SmartCILP:

• Ziaulrahman Mushkalamzai, Justifications for the Three-Tiered Judicial System in Afghanistan: Comparative Perspectives on Islamic Jurisprudence, 48 California Western International Law Journal 85-121 (2017).
• Faraz Siddiqui & Aleea Stanton, Blocking the Means to Exploit: Ending Kafala Under the Principle of Sadd al-Dhara'i, [Abstract], 61 Howard Law Journal 341-368 (2018).
• Nicole B. Godfrey, Holding Federal Prison Officials Accountable: The Case for Recognizing a Damages Remedy for Federal Prisoners' Free Exercise Claims, 96 Nebraska Law Review 924-976 (2018).
• JD Hsin, Defending the Public's Forum: Theory and Doctrine In the Problem of Provocative Speech, 69 Hastings Law Journal 1099-1145 (2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Brendan T. Beery, Prophylactic Free Exercise: The First Amendment and Religion in a Post-Kennedy World, (Albany Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Jaclyn L. Neo, Regulation of Religious Communities in a Multicultural Polity, (Forthcoming in Rex Ahdar (ed.), Research Handbook on Law and Religion (Edward Elgar, 2018)).
• Jennifer Koshan & Jonnette Watson Hamilton, Alberta v. Hutterian Brethren of Wilson Colony (Women's Court of Canada), ((2018) 30(2) Canadian Journal of Women and the Law).
• Catherine Hardee, Who's Causing the Harm, (Kentucky Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Tamir Moustafa, Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State, (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
• Peter Margulies, The Travel Ban Decision and the Twilight of Judicial Craft: Taking Statutory Context Seriously, (Roger Williams Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 183 (2018).
• Kyriaki Topidi, Faith-Based Education and Equality: Towards an Education of Prejudice? - The Example of Faith Schools in England, (July 30, 2018).
• Caitlin Carlson & Hayley Rousselle, Report and Repeat: Investigating Facebook's Hate Speech Removal Process, (April 1, 2018).
• Vivien Chen, Law and Society in the Evolution of Malaysia's Capital Market Regulation, (Asian Journal of Law and Society, Forthcoming).
• Vivian Grosswald Curran, The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's Evolving Genocide Exception, (UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Vol. 23, 2019, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Martina E. Cartwright, Book, Chapter, and Verse: The Rise and Rise of the Freedom of Conscience Movement Post-Windsor and Obergefell, [Abstract], 23 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 39-106 (2016-2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Tihamer Toth, Competition and Democracy, (Versenytükör, 2017. V. issue, pp. 68-82).
• Ralph R. A. Janik, How Many Divisions Does the European Court of Human Rights Have? Compliance and Legitimacy in Times of Crisis, (20 Austrian Review of International and European Law (2018/2015) 125).
• Charles A. Sullivan, Clergy Contracts, (Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Forthcoming).
• David W. Opderbeck, Christian Thought and Property Law, (Forthcoming, Christian Thought and Private Law, Cambridge University Press).
• Phil Lord, Scientology's Legal System, (August 15, 2018).
• Richard Albert, David Landau, Pietro Faraguna & Šimon Drugda, The I·CONnect-Clough Center 2017 Global Review of Constitutional Law, (Published by the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy (2018)).
• Dara E. Purvis, The Constitutionalization of Fatherhood, (August 15, 2018).
• Erica Goldberg, 'Good Orthodoxy' and the Legacy of Barnette: FIU College of Law Symposium on the 75th Anniversary of West Virginia V. Barnette, (Forthcoming, FIU Law Review).
• Ihsan Yilmaz & Zahid Shahab Ahmed, Islam and Women Rights in Pakistan, (August 9, 2018).

From SmartCILP:

• Leonard Hammer, Cultural Heritage Protection and Sacred Spaces: Considering Alternative Approaches from Within the Human Rights Framework, 49 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 73-113 (2018).
• Allan W. Vestal, "In the Name of Heaven, Don't Force Men to Hear Prayers": Religious Liberty and the Constitution of Iowa, 66 Drake Law Review 355-451 (2018).
• Chelsea M. Baltes, Book Note. God and the Illegal Alien, United States Immigration Law and a Theology of Politics by Robert W. Heimburger, 32 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 237-245 (2018).
• Perspectives: How Cultural and Religious Diversity Affect Alternative Dispute Resolution. Franco Shapiro, moderator; Marcelo Rosadilla, Sukhsimranjit Singh, Marcio Vasconcellos, panelists, 18 Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal 497-508 (2018).
• Mark Strasser, Free Exercise and Comer: Robust Entrenchment or Simply More of a Muddle?, [Abstract], 52 University of Richmond Law Review 887-922 (2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Trial by Ordeal by Jury in Medieval England, or Saints and Sinners in Literature and Law, (Kate Gilbert and Stephen D. White, eds., Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of William Ian Miller (Leiden: Brill, 2018)).
• Daniel O. Conkle, Animus and Its Alternatives: Constitutional Principle and Judicial Prudence, (Stetson Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Samuel Wolfe Calhoun, Separation of Church and State: Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Show It Was Never Intended to Separate Religion from Politics, 74 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 459 (2018).
• Rafael Domingo & Giovanni Minnucci, Alberico Gentili and the Secularization of the Law of Nations, (in Rafael Domingo and John Witte, Jr. (eds.), Christianity and Global Law. An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
• Robert C. Blitt, The Wolf Act Amendments to the U.S. International Religious Freedom Act: Breakthrough or Breakdown?, (July 26, 2018).
• Katie R. Eyer, Animus Trouble, (Stetson Law Review, Forthcoming).

From SSRN (Free Speech issues):

• Noah Chauvin, Policing the Heckler's Veto: Toward a Heightened Duty of Speech Protection on College Campuses, (Creighton Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Jason M. Shepard & Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Culture Wars on Campus: Academic Freedom, the First Amendment and Partisan Outrage in Polarized Times, (San Diego Law Review, Vol. 55: 87-158 (2018)).
• Gregory S. Gordon, Freedom of Expression, Hate Speech, and Incitement to Terrorism and Genocide: Resonances and Tensions, (in"Incitement to Terrorism"; Published by Brill, Eds Bayefsky, A.F., Blank, L.R., (2018)).

From SSRN (Religious Law)

• Yehezkel Margalit, Temporary Marriage – A Comparison of the Jewish and Islamic Conception, (33(1) Journal of Law and Religion 89 (2018)).
• Doug Magendanz, Gratian in Paradise: Canon Law and the Desecularisation of Civil Society, (August 1, 2018).
• Joshua Carback, On Sharia in American Family Law: Confronting the Dangers of Legal Pluralism, 7 International Journal of Jurisprudence of the Family 115 (2016)).
• Yeheil Kaplan, Enhancement of International Rights and Norms Prescribed for Children: The Promise of Interpretation of Religious Law, (7 International Journal of Jurisprudence of the Family 269 (2016).
• Nashon Perez & Elisheva Rosman-Stollman, Balaniyot, Baths and Beyond: Israel's State-Run Ritual Baths and the Rights of Women, (July 29, 2018).

From SSRN (Islam and Muslim Nations):

• Geoffrey Swenson, Why U.S. Efforts to Promote the Rule of Law in Afghanistan Failed, (International Security (2017) Vol. 42(1), pp.114-151).
• Ihsan Yilmaz, Nation Building, Social Engineering and Unofficial Legal Pluralism in Turkey and Pakistan, (June 4, 2017).
• Ihsan Yilmaz, Islamist Educational Policies, Islam and Erdoganist Nation Building in Turkey, (July 4, 2017).
• IhsanYilmaz, Islamic Counter-Hegemonic Legal Knowledge and Its Unofficial Interpretation and Glocal Dissemination, (March 4, 2018).
• Sharif Islam, The Ibn Rushd Syndrome: In Search of Rational Muslim, (July 10, 2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Brendan T. Beery, Rational Basis Loses Its Bite: Justice Kennedy's Retirement Removes the Most Lethal Quill from LGBT Advocates' Equal-Protection Quiver, (Syracuse Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Rachel A. Harmon, Policing, Protesting, and the Insignificance of Hostile Audiences, (Knight First Amend. Inst. (Nov 2, 2017)).
• William D. Araiza, Animus and its Discontents, (Florida Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Teemu Ruskola, Notes on The Neutered Mother, or Toward a Queer Socialist Matriarchy, (Emory Law Journal, Vol. 67, No. 1165, 2018).
• Julia Quigley, Payments in Lieu of Trouble: Nonprofit Pilots as Extortion or Efficient Public Finance?, (NYU Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2018).

From SmartCILP:

• Tesch Leigh West, When Corporations Go to Church: Free Exercise Under Hobby Lobby, [Abstract], 27 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 37-71 (2018).
• Carson Holloway, Judicial Review and Subjective Intentions, [Abstract], 9 Faulkner Law Review 1-26 (2017).
• Hon. Kenneth Starr, [Abstract], Presidents as Tradition Creators and Tradition Keepers, 9 Faulkner L. Rev. 27-43 (2017).
• Roberto Rosas, The Ecclesiastical Tribunals Field Hospital for Wounded Marriages The New Matrimonial Processus Brevior, 16 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 427-485 (2017).
• Allan W. Vestal, Cents and Sensibilities, 20 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 245-311 (2017).
• Patrick Weil, Freedom of Conscience, But Which One? In Search of Coherence in the U.S. Supreme Court's Religion Jurisprudence, 20 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 313-370 (2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Engy Abdelkader, Muslims and Islam in U.S. Public Schools: Cases, Controversies and Curricula, (Education, Citizenship, National Identity and Core Values In Western Societies, Brill Publishers (2019 Forthcoming)).
• Cary Franklin, Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt and What It Means to Protect Women, (Forthcoming, Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories (Foundation Press, 2019)).
• Gal Amir, 1648 or 1948? No Room for Westphalia in the Middle-East, (9 Journal on European History of Law no. 1, 99-107 (2018)).
• Kenneth Townsend, A Common Enterprise: Law and the Connection between Civil and Heavenly Realms in the Writings of John Calvin, (Concordia Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Douglas NeJaime & Reva Siegel, Religious Exemptions and Antidiscrimination Law in Masterpiece Cakeshop, (128 Yale Law Journal Forum __ (2018 Forthcoming)).
• J. Stuart Adams, Taking Colliding Trains Off a Collision Path: Lessons from the Utah Compromise for Civil Society (July 10, 2018). (Chapter 21,  The Contested Place of Religion In Family Law, (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018)).
• Guillem Riambau, Clin Lai, Boyu Lu Zhao & Jean Liu, Legal Origins, Religion and Health Outcomes: A Cross-Country Comparison of Organ Donation Laws,(July 24, 2018).
• Geoffrey Swenson, Legal Pluralism in Theory and Practice, (International Studies Review, 2018).
• Alan E. Brownstein, Attempting to Engage in Socially Coherent Dialogue About Religious Liberty and Equality, 31 J. Civ. Rts. & Econ. Dev. 71 (2018).
• Rafael Domingo, Contardo Ferrini (1859–1902): A Contemplative Legal Historian, (In Orazio Condorelli and Rafael Domingo (eds.), Great Christian Jurists in Italian History (Cambridge University Press, 2020)).
• Anna Offit, Review Essay: Giving Life to the Death Penalty, (Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Forthcoming).
• Jack Harrison, 'Because of Sex', (Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 1, 2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Adam Chodorow, Amicus Curiae Brief of Tax Law Professors in Support of Appellees, (June 22, 2018).
• Luke Beck, A Question of Characterisation: Can the Commonwealth Facilitate the Imposition of Religious Observances?, (Monash University Law Review, Vol 43, No 3, pp. 828-844, 2018).
• Ashwani Malhotra, Personal Laws and the Constitution: Revisiting Narasu Appa Mali, (June 22, 2018).
• Jessica A. Clarke, Explicit Bias, (Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 113 (2018 Forthcoming)).
• Giri Taufik, Proportionality Test in the 1945 Constitution: Limiting Hizbut Tahrir Freedom of Assembly, (Constitutional Review Journal, Vol. 4, Number 1, May 2018).
• Nicolas Duquette, Top Donors and the Rising Concentration of Giving in the United States, 1960–2012, (June 19, 2018).
• Allison Anna Tait, Keeping Promises and Meeting Needs: Public Charities at a Crossroads, (Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 5, 2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Sohail Wahedi, Female Circumcision as an African Problem: Double Standards or the Harsh Reality?, (M. Christian Green, T. Jeremy Gunn, & Mark Hill (Eds.), Religion, Law and Security, Stellenbosch: African Sun Media 2018, Conference Proceedings).
• Brian Soucek, The Case of the Religious Gay Blood Donor, (William & Mary Law Review, Forthcoming).
• John M. Armstrong, Review of Plato, 'The Laws', edited by Malcolm Schofield, translated by Tom Griffith, Cambridge University Press, 2016, (Ancient Philosophy (Forthcoming)).
• Russell K. Robinson & David M. Frost, 'Playing it Safe' with Empirical Evidence: Selective Use of Social Science in Supreme Court Cases About Racial Justice and Marriage Equality, (June 22, 2018).
• Raphael Cohen-Almagor, When a Ritual Murder Occurred at Purim. The Harm in Hate Speech, (El profesional de la información, Vol. 27, No. 3 (2018), pp. 671-681).
• Nicholas Duquette, Alexandra Graddy-Reed & Mark Phillips, The Extent and Efficacy of State Charitable Contribution Income Tax Credits, (April 23, 2018).

From SmartCILP:

• Ronald J. Colombo, The Religious Liberty Jurisprudence of Justice Antonin Scalia, 46 Hofstra Law Review 433-443 (2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Teresa Stanton Collett, Against Ideological Colonization: The Teaching of Humanae Vitae and a Humanely Adequate Global Ethic, (U of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-13 (2018)).
• Dagmar Schiek, On Uses, Mis-Uses and Non-Uses of Intersectionality Before the European Court of Justice (ECJ): The ECJ Rulings Parris (C-433/15), Achbita (C-157/15) and Bougnaoui (C-188/15) as a Bermuda Triangle?, (Journal of Discrimination and the Law, Forthcoming).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson & Shaakirrah Sanders, By Faith Alone: When Religious Beliefs and Child Welfare Collide, (Chapter from: The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018)).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson, Divorcing Marriage and the State Post-Obergefell, (Chapter in: The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018)).
• Joanna N. Erdman, Constitutionalizing Abortion Rights in Canada, (Ottawa Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2017).
• Steve Sanders, Making it Up: Lessons for Equal Protection Doctrine from the Use and Abuse of Hypothesized Purposes in the Marriage Equality Litigation, (Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 68, 2017).
• Sarah C. Haan, The Post-Truth First Amendment, (94 Indiana Law Journal, 2018, Forthcoming).
• Vincent J. Samar, Personhood Under the Fourteenth Amendment, (Marquette Law Review, Vol. 101, Issue 2, 2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Iain T. Benson, Can Law Avoid Creating Culture and Religion in Its Own Image? The Context for Diversity, Religion and Culture in MEC for Education: Kwazulu-Natal and Others v Navaneethum Pillay: Reflections a Decade Later, (Journal for Juridical Science, 2017).
• Chan Tov McNamarah, On the Basis of Sex (UAL Orientation or Gender Identity): Bringing Queer Equity to School with Title IX, (Cornell Law Review, Vol. 104, (Forthcoming 2019)).
• Paul Benjamin Linton, Overruling Roe v. Wade: The Implications for Women and the Law, (Life an Learning XVII: Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh University Faculty for Life Conference (2017)).
• Holning Lau, From Loving to Obergefell: Elevating the Significance of Discriminatory Effects, (Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law (2018 Forthcoming)).
• Holning Lau, Comparative Discrimination Law: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, (Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Discrimination Law (2018 Forthcoming)).
• Mohamed A. Arafa, Islamic Criminal Law: The Divine Criminal Justice System between Lacuna and Possible Routes, (2 Journal of Forensic and Crime Studies 102 (Spring 2018)).
• Nicolas J. Duquette, Spend or Save? Nonprofits’ Use of Donations and Other Revenues, (Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 46(6): 1142-1165 (2017)).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Kaiponanea T. Matsumura, Consent to Intimate Regulation, (North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 96, No. 4, 2018).
• Margo A. Bagley, The Morality of Compulsory Licensing as an Access to Medicines Tool, (Minnesota Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Paul T. Babie, Parliamentary Prayer and the Establishment of Religion, (February 2018) 40(1) the Bulletin of the Law Society of South Australia 12-15).
• Noel D. Johnson & Mark Koyama, The State, Toleration, and Religious Freedom, (Advances in the Economics of Religion, Edited by Iyer, Rubin and Carvalho. Palgrave, 2018).
• Robert G. Natelson, Why Nineteenth Century Bans on 'Sectarian' Aid are Facially Unconstitutional: New Evidence on Plain Meaning, (19 Federalist Soc. Rev. 98 (2018)).
• Thaddeus Mason Pope, How to Respond to a Patient's Discriminatory Request for a Different Clinician, (ASCO Post (April 10, 2018)).
• Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Taking North American White Supremacist Groups Seriously: The Scope and the Challenge of Hate Speech on the Internet, (International Journal of Crime, Justice, and Social Democracy, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2018): 38-57).

From SSRN (Religious Law):

• Ghassan Abdul-Jabbar, The Major Themes of Hadith and Its Characteristics, (The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture, Vol. 1, Foundations of Islam (2016)).
• Mohammed A. Arafa, Transitional Justice, the Seeds of Change: Secular Law or Divine (Islamic) Law, Quo Vadis?, (Creighton Law Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2018).
• Christopher P. Guzelian, Silver: A Morally Good Money, (Procesos de Mercado, vol. 15 (2018).
• Doron M. Kalir, Rethinking Religious Objections (Old-Testament Based) to Same-Sex Marriage, (Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, Vol. 33, 2018, Forthcoming).
• Jonathan C. Augustine, The Fiery Furnace, Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement: A Biblical Exegesis on Daniel 3 and Letter from Birmingham Jail, (Richmond Public Interest Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2018).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Ran Hirschl, Ayelet Shachar, Competing Orders? The Challenge of Religion to Modern Constitutionalism, 85 University of Chicago Law Revies 425-455 (2018).
• J. William Callison, Dangling Threads: Hobby Lobby and Corporate Law Issues, 48 University of Memphis Law Review 447-461 (2017).
• Andrew L. Seidel, Dating God: What Is “Year of Our Lord” Doing in the U.S. Constitution?, [Abstract], 3 Constitutional Studies 129-151 (2018).

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• Kenneth Einar Himma, An Unjust Dogma: Why a Special Right to Religion Wrongly Discriminates Against Non-Religious Worldviews, (San Diego Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2017).
• Caroline Mala Corbin, Is There Any Silver Lining to Trinity Lutheran Church, Inc. v. Comer?, (Michigan Law Review Online, Vol. 116, p. 137, 2018).
• Richard W. Garnett & Jackson C. Blais, Religious Freedom and Recycled Tires: The Meaning and Implications of Trinity Lutheran, (2016-17 Cato Supreme Court Review 105).
• Richard W. Garnett, Freedom 'for' Religion: (Yet) Another View of the Cathedral, (in Brett G. Scharffs, Asher Maoz, and Ashley Isaacson Woolley, eds., Religious Freedom and the Law: Emerging Contexts for Freedom for and Freedom From Religion (Routledge 2019 Forthcoming)).
• Nadia N. Sawicki, Disentangling Conscience Protections, (Hastings Center Report, Forthcoming).
• Richard W. Garnett, "Afterword," (in S. Hendrianto, S.J., ed., Priests, Lawyers, and Scholars: Essays in Honor of Robert J. Araujo, S.J." (Franciscan Univ. Press 2017)).
• Barry W. Bussey, The Right of Religious Hospitals to Refuse Physician-Assisted Suicide, ((2018) 85 S.C.L.R. (2d)).
• Netta Barak Corren, The War Within, (May 23, 2018).
• B. Jessie Hill, Sex, Lies, and Ultrasound, (89 University of Colorado Law Review 421 (2018)).
• Reva Siegel & Linda Greenhouse, The Unfinished Story of Roe v. Wade, (Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper (2018)).
• Kevin M. Barry & Jennifer Levi, Blatt v. Cabela's Retail, Inc. and a New Path for Transgender Rights, (Yale Law Journal Forum, Vol. 127, p. 373, 2017).
• Albertina Antognini, Against Nonmarital Exceptionalism, (UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 51, 2018 (Forthcoming)).

From SSRN (Islamic law):

• Kerstin Steiner, Branding Islam: Islam, Law and Bureaucracies in Southeast Asia, (37(1) Current Journal of Southeast Asian Affairs (2018)).
• Dominik Müller & Kerstub Steiner, The Bureaucratisation of Islam in Southeast Asia: Transdisciplinary Perspectives,  (37 (1) Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs (2018)).
• Haider Ala Hamoudi & Mark Cammack, Islamic Law in Modern Courts (Introduction), (Aspen Casebook Series, 2018).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Valerie J. Munson, On Holy Ground: Church Sanctuary in the Trump Era, 47 Southwestern Law Review 49-60 (2017).
• Ian P. Farrell. Book Review. From Premodern Christianity to the Postmodern Jury. 53 Tulsa L. Rev. 247-259 (2018). 
• Jason E. Whitehead, Book Review. Faith, Reason, and Liberal Legal Neutrality, 53 Tulsa Law Review 375-393 (2018).
• Robert E. Rains, Icing on the Wedding Cake: Same-sex Marriage and Religious Objections--Is There an Accommodation That Will Make Everyone Equally Happy (Or Unhappy)?, 42 Vermont Law Review 191-225 (2017).
• Elise Goss-Alexander, Policy Focus: Women and Religious Freedom, (USCIRF, May 2018).

Recent Book:

• Mohammad Hashas, Jan Jaap de Ruiter & Niels Valdemar Vinding (eds), Imams in Western Europe: Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges, (Amsterdam University Press, May 2018).