Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Mary Nobles Hancock, God Save the United States and this Honorable County Board of Commissioners: Lund, Bormuth, and the Fight Over Legislative Prayer, (76 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. (2019 Forthcoming)).
• Jonathan Moreno, Church Attendance, Petty Crime and Rain, (March 29, 2018).
• Steve Sanders, Dignity and Social Meaning: Obergefell, Windsor, and Lawrence as Constitutional Dialogue, (Fordham Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Shawn Fields, Brief of Amici Curiae Constitutional Law Scholars in Support of Respondents in Trump V. Hawaii, 17-965, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-340 (2018)).
• Steve Sanders, Pavan v. Smith: Equality for Gays and Lesbians in Being Married, Not Just in Getting Married, (American Constitution Society Supreme Court Review 2016-2017).
• Timothy Horley, Rethinking the Heckler's Veto After Charlottesville, (Virginia Law Review, Vol. 104, No. 8, 2018).
• L.A. Latif, An Explication on Broadening the Definition and Scope of Maximum Available Resources Under General Comment 14 of the ICESCR to Include Islamic Taxation in Financing the Right to Health, (Biomed J Sci & Tech Res 1(3), 2017).

From elsewhere:

• Camilia R. Brown, The Violent Persecution of the Iranian Bahá’í: A Call to Take a Human Capabilities Approach to Defining Genocide, 43 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 361 (2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Josef Hien & Christian Joerges, Dead Man Walking: Current European Interest in the Ordoliberal Tradition, (EUI Department of Law Research Paper No. 2018/03 (2018)).
• Robert T. Miller, What is a Compelling Governmental Interest?, (Journal of Morality and Markets, (Forthcoming)).
• Ira C. Lupu & Robert W. Tuttle, #Metoo Meets the Ministerial Exception: Sexual Harassment Claims by Clergy and the First Amendment's Religion Clauses, (William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice (2019 Forthcoming)).
• Melissa Crouch, Constitutionalism, Religion and Inequality: Perspectives from Asia, (Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming).
• Susanna Mancini & Kristina Stoeckl, Transatlantic Conversations The Emergence of Society-Protective Antiabortion Arguments in the United States, Europe, and Russia, (S. Mancini, M. Rosenfeld, The Conscience Wars. Rethinking the Balance between Religion, Identity, and Equality, Cambridge University Press, 2018).
• Earl M. Maltz, The Constitution and the Trump Travel Ban, (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Grant Christensen, A View from American Courts: The Year in Indian Law 2017, (Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 41, 2018).
• Sharon Cruz, The Search for Third Options in a Two-Bathroom Society, (1 International Comparative, Policy & Ethics Law Review 77 (2018)).
• Mohamed A. Arafa, Islam and Elder Care in Egypt after the Arab Spring Uprisings: Between Divine Law and Secular Law: Quo Vadis?, (CALUMET: Intercultural L. & Humanities Rev. [Law & Religion] (Online Fall 2017)).

From SmartCILP:

• Elizabeth B. Ludwin King, Transitional Justice and the Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, 81 Albany Law Review 121-143 (2017/2018).
• A. Reid Monroe-Sheridan, "Frankly Unthinkable": The Constitutional Failings of President Trump's Proposed Muslim Registry, 70 Maine Law Review 1-34 (2017).
• Waseem Ahmad Qureshi, Can the Burning of Holy Books Ever Be Justified?, 24 Washington & Lee Journal of Civil Rights & Social Justice 63-102 (2017).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

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

Recent Books:

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

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Ryan T. Anderson, Disagreement is Not Always Discrimination: On Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Analogy to Interracial Marriage, (Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2018).
• Lee J. Strang, The Original Meaning of 'Religion' in the First Amendment: A Test Case of Originalism's Utilization of Corpus Linguistics, (Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2017).
• Kathleen Brady, Religious Accommodations and Third-Party Harms: Constitutional Values and Limits, (106 Kentucky Law Journal, Issue No. 4, Forthcoming).
• James A. Davids, Religious Colleges' Employment Rights Under the 'Ministerial Exception' and When Disciplining an Employee for Sexually Related Conduct, (Texas Review of Law & Politics, Vol. 21, No. 3 (2018).
• Mark Storslee, Religious Accommodation, the Establishment Clause, and Third-Party Harm, (March 8, 2018).
• Timothy Zick, Introduction to The Dynamic Free Speech Clause: Free Speech and Its Relation to Other Constitutional Rights, (Oxford Univ. Press, 2018).
• Michael J. Higdon, Biological Citizenship and the Children of Same-Sex Marriage, (March 11, 2018).
• Hiroshi Fukurai & Alice Yang Murray, The History of Japanese Racism, Japanese American Redress, and the Dangers Associated With Government Regulation of Hate Speech, (Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 45, 2018).
• Joel S. Newman, Conspicuous Philanthropy: A Response, (American University Law Review Forum, Vol. 67, No. 1, 2018).

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

• M.C. Mirow, Léon Duguit, (In Olivier Descamps and Rafael Domingo, Great Christian Jurists in French History (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (Forthcoming)).
• Neil James Foster, Protection of Religious Freedom under Australia’s Amended Marriage Law: Constitutional and Other Issues, (Freedom of Religion or Belief: Creating the Constitutional Space for Other Fundamental Freedoms: 14th – 16th February 2018).
• Sheida Banasaznavaei, A Study on the Temporary Marriage Contract in Iranian Law — Are Women Safe in Temporary Marriage Contracts?, (January 5, 2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Micah Schwartzman, Nelson Tebbe & Richard Schragger, The Costs of Conscience, (Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2018-14 (March 2018)).
• Donald Carroll, A Groundless Clash of Freedoms?: The Religious Freedom of the Religiously Affiliated University and the Freedom of Faculty to Organize Under the NLRA, (March 2018).
• John D. Inazu, The Purpose (and Limits) of the University, (Utah Law Review, 2018 Forthcoming).
• Joseph E. David, 'Others-in-Law': Legalism in the Economy of Religious Differences, (Law, Culture and the Humanities, Forthcoming).
• Timothy Lubin, Towards a South Asian Diplomatics: Cosmopolitan Norms and Regional Idioms in the Use of Documents, (Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India, edited by Simon Cubelic, Axel Michaels, and Astrid Zotter. Heidelberg University Publishing / Kathmandu: National Archives, Nepal, 2018, pp. 37–84).
• Avishalom Westreich, Accommodating Religious Law with a Civil Legal System: Lessons from the Jewish Law Experience in Financial Family Matters, (Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 33, 2018).
• Benito Arruñada & Matthias Krapf, Religion and the European Union, (Pompeu Fabra University, Economics and Business Working paper Series, 1601 (2018).
• Marc D. Froese, Universal Economy: Reconsidering the Role of Ideas in the Multilateral Governance of Global Trade, (March 9, 2018).
• Rory K. Little, Hating Hate Speech: Why Current First Amendment Doctrine Does Not Condemn a Careful Ban, (Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2018).
• Oonagh B. Breen, Redefining the Measure of Success: A Historical and Comparative Look at Charity Regulation, (Forthcoming in Matthew Harding (ed.), The Research Handbook on Not-for-Profit Law (Edward Elgar, 2018).

From SmartCILP:

• Donohon Abdugafurova, Rahimjon Abdugafurov & Beverly Moran, Islamic Feminism and Invisible Work: The Case of the Disappearing Daughter-in-Law, [Abstract], 19 Georgetown Journal of Gender & Law 43-60 (2017).
• Marc-Tizoc Gonzalez, Criminalizing Charity: Can First Amendment Free Exercise of Religion, RFRA, and RLUIPA Protect People Who Share Food in Public?, 7 UC Irvine Law Review 291-345 (2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Rafael Domingo & Brigitte Basdevant-Gaudemet, Paul Fournier (1853-1935), (in Olivier Descamps and Rafael Domingo, Great Christian Jurists in French History (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (Forthcoming)).
• Rafael Domingo & Javier Martínez-Torrón, Javier, Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History: Introduction, (Rafael Domingo and Javier Martínez-Torrón (eds.), Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History (Cambridge University Press, 2018) (Forthcoming)).
• Berta E. Hernández-Truyol, Religion: Rites vs. Rights Resolving Tensions between LGBT Equality and Religious Liberty, (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Law (Andreas Ziegler, ed., 2018 Forthcoming)).
• Michael W. McConnell, Dressmakers, Bakers, and the Equality of Rights, (in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge, Jr. and Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds. 2018).
• Robbie Skyes & Kieran Mark Tranter, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and Natural Law, (International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 2018).

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

• 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, (February 28, 2018).
• Paul T. Babie, National Security and the Free Exercise Guarantee of Section 116: Time for a Judicial Interpretive Update, ((2017) 45 Federal Law Review 351).
• Adnan Zulfiqar, Jurisdiction over Jihad: Islamic Law and the Duty to Fight, (West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 120, No. 2, 2017).
• David Abraham, Circumcision: Immigration, Religion, History, and Constitutional Identity in Germany and the U.S., (18 German Law Journal 1745 (2017)).
• P.K. Pandey, Offences Relating to Religion in India, (Law Exam Times, 2017).
• Craig Martin, Striking the Right Balance: Hate Speech Laws in Japan, the United States, and Canada, (Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2018).

From SmartCILP:

• Gerald Benjamin, The Chassidic Presence and Local Government in the Hudson Valley, 80 Albany Law Review 1383-1464 (2016-2017). 

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• David Bleich, Mitochondrial DNA Replacement: Moral and Halakhic Concerns, (International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family, Forthcoming).
• SpearIt, Legal Punishment As Civil Ritual: Making Cultural Sense of Harsh Punishment, (ECI Interdisciplinary Journal for Legal and Social Policy, Vol. 5 [2017], Iss. 1, Art. 1).
• Richard R. Carlson, The Sincerely Religious Corporation, (January 31, 2018).
• Desirée C. Schmitt, The Doctrine of Consular Nonreviewability in the Travel Ban Cases: Kerry v. Din Revisited, (February 2018).
• Joanna C. Schwartz, The Case Against Qualified Immunity, (Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Teri Dobbins Baxter, Child Marriage as Child Abuse and Constitutional Violation, (February 1, 2018).
• Muhammad Ahmad, Jihad, Jihadi Organizations and Liberation Struggle, (Hazara Islamicus, 6:2 (2017), 15-31).
• Muhammad Mehmood, Artificial Insemination in Shari’ah: A Case of Test-Tube Baby in Shari’ah and Its Legal Status in Pakistan, (Pakistan Annual Research Journal, 2017).

From SmartCILP:

• Angela C. Carmella, Catholic Institutions in Court: The Religion Clauses and Political-Legal Compromise, [Abstract], 120 West Virginia Law Review 1-94 (2017).

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jeremy Patrick, 'A La Carte' Spirituality and the Future of Freedom of Religion, (January 31, 2018).
• Rafael Domingo, Penal Law in the Roman Catholic Church, (Ecclesiastical Law Journal 20 (2018), Forthcoming).
• Nelson Tebbe, Conscience and Equality, (Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development (2018 Forthcoming)).
• Andrew P. Cicero, III, Is It Well with Your Soul? The Surprising Divide within the Baptist Community Concerning Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, (February 1, 2018).
• Ryan T. Anderson, Marriage, the Court, and the Future, (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2017).
• Courtney G. Joslin, Discrimination In and Out of Marriage, (98 Boston University Law Review 1 (2018)).
• Emily Warwick, Title IX, Tax-Exemption, and Transgender Students: Using Federal Guidelines to Determine the Tax-Exempt Status of Single-Sex Institutions, (January 31, 2018).

From SSRN (Law of charities):

• Natalie Silver, Regulating the Foreign Activities of Charities: A Comparative Perspective, (Report for the Pemsel Case Foundation, 2017).
• Brian D. Galle, Design and Implementation of a Charitable Regulation Regime, (January 28, 2018).
• Paul B. Miller, The Identification of Fiduciary Relationships, (Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller, and Robert H. Sitkoff, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)).

From SSRN (European law):

• Evina Heydari, A Post-Secular Europe? – A Critical Discourse Analysis of European Rulings Regarding Religious Symbols in the Public Sphere, (November 18, 2017).
• Natalie Alkiviadou, Regulating Hate Speech in the EU, (Online Hate Speech in the European Union. A Discourse-Analytic Perspective. Springer briefs in Linguistics (2017)).

From SSRN (Islam and Islamic Law):

• Fajri Muhammadin, Should Muslims Argue Exceptionalism/Particularism in International Law?, (February 8, 2018).
• Marco Longobardo, The Self-Proclaimed Statehood of the Islamic State between 2014 and 2017 and International Law, ((2017) 33 Anuario español de derecho internacional 205-228).
• Ending Solehudin, The System Zakat Reform of Management and the Zakat in Indonesia (A Study of the Fatwa of Islamic Organization Persis and MUI on the Management of Zakat), (International Journal of Financial Management (IJFM), Vol. 7, Issue 1, Dec – Jan 2018, 1-20).
• Reza Banakar, Double-Thinking and Contradictory Arrangements in Iranian Law and Society, (Digest of Middle East Studies, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Douglas Laycock, Churches, Playgrounds, Government Dollars -- and Schools? 131 Harvard Law Review 133-169 (2017).
• Stacey A. Tovino, On Health, Law, and Religion, 74 Washington & Lee Law Review 1623-1691 (2017).

Recent Book:

• Monroe Price & Nicole Stremlau (eds.), Speech and Society in Turbulent Times: Freedom of Expression in Comparative Perspective, (Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Joshua Cutler, The Religious Roots of the Progressive Income Tax in America,(January 22, 2018).
• Robert Kahn, Five Thoughts About the Repeal of Denmark's Blasphemy Ban, (January 29, 2018).
• Julio C. Colón, Settlement of Islamic Finance Disputes in the United States of America, (Dispute Resolution in Islamic Finance (Forthcoming)).
• Avihay Dorfman, Toleration in Law, (January 30, 2018).
• Fiona de Londras & Mima Markicevic, Reforming Abortion Law in Ireland: An Analysis of Submissions to the Citizens Assembly, (October 10, 2017).
• Steven G. Calabresi, Hannah Begley, Katherine L. Dore & Sarah E. Agudo, Individual Rights Under State Constitution in 2018: What Rights are Deeply Rooted in a Modern-Day Consensus of the States, (Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-02 (2018)).
• J.B. Heaton, What Injures a Corporation? Toward Better Understanding Corporate Personality, (January 31, 2018).
• Gwendolyn Leachman, Media, Marriage, and the Construction of the LGBT Legal Agenda, Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1437 (2018).
• Ryan T. Anderson, A Brave New World of Transgender Policy, (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2018).
• Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, Fiduciary Principles in Charities and Other Nonprofits, (Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller, and Robert H. Sitkoff, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Oxford University Press, 2018 Forthcoming)).

Recent Articles of Interest [UPDATED]

From SSRN:

• Engy Abdelkader, Humanitarian Islam, (Pace International Law Review, (Forthcoming).
• Teresa Stanton Collett, Government Schools, Parental Rights, and the Perversion of Catholic Morality, (Acton Institute's Markets and Morality (2018, Forthcoming)).
• Andrew J. Haile, Reconsidering Selective Conscientious Objection, (January 31, 2018).
• Rachel Sklar, Holocaust-Era Art Restitution Claims: Is the HEAR Act a Game Changer?, (12 Revista de Derecho Privado 159 (2017)).
• Wendy E. Parmet & Jason A. Smith, Free Speech and Public Health: Unraveling the Commercial-Professional Speech Paradox, (Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 78, No. 4, pp. 887-915 (2017)).
• Kristi L. Bowman, A Counterfactual History of Transgender Students' Rights, (Journal of Constitutional Law Online, Vol. 20, 2017).
• Nan D. Hunter, Varieties of Constitutional Experience: Direct Democracy and the Marriage Equality Campaign, (UCLA Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Kathryn Chan, Chapter 3 - Public Benefit and the Substantive Public Law-Private Law Divide, (Kathryn Chan, The Public-Private Nature of Charity Law (Oxford: Hart Bloomsbury, 2016)).

From SmartCILP:

• Leonard M. Niehoff & Deeva Shah, The Resilience of Noxious Doctrine: The 2016 Election, the Marketplace of Ideas, and the Obstinacy of Bias, 22 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 243-271 (2017).
• Richard H. Fallon Jr., Tiers for the Establishment Clause, 166 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 59-127 (2017).
• Law & Religion. Articles by William A. Galston, Kenneth Einar Himma, Andrew Koppelman, Samuel C. Rickless, Maimon Schwarzschild, William Voegeli, Larry Alexander, 54 San Diego Law Review 197-341 (2017).
• Gerard V. Bradley, Today's Challenges to Religious Liberty in Historical Perspective, 21 Texas Review of Law & Politics 341-376 (2017).
• Justin E. Butterfield & Stephanie N. Taub, The Jurisprudence of the Body: Conscience Rights in the Use of the Sword, Scalpel, and Syringe, 21 Texas Review of Law & Politics 409-421 (2017).
• James A. Davids, Religious Colleges' Employment Rights Under the "Ministerial Exception" and When Disciplining an Employee for Sexually Related Conduct, 21 Texas Review of Law & Politics 423-476 (2017).
• Kevin Pybas, Justice Stevens's Religion Clause Jurisprudence and His Sympathetic Interpreters: A Critique, 21 Texas Review of Law & Politics 519-563 (2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• John M. Breen & Lee J. Strang, The Thinness of Catholic Legal Education, a Review of Robert J. Kaczorowski, Fordham University Law School: A History, (University of St. Thomas Law Journal, Vol. 15, 2018).
• Luke Beck, The Role of Religion in the Law of Royal Succession in Canada and Australia, (Queen's Law Journal, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2018, pp. 53-84).
• Jeffrey A. Brauch, What is Flawed Perfection?, (Flawed Perfection: What It Means to Be Human and Why It Matters for Culture, Politics, and Law by Jeffrey A. Brauch, 2017).
• Rafael Domingo, Body, Soul, and Spirit of the Law. Towards a Holistic Legal Paradigm, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 7 (Forthcoming)).
• Paulette Miniter, Willa Cather's My Antonia and Legal Thought in the Late Nineteenth Century, (Creighton Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 1, 2017).
• Fajri Muhammadin, Towards a Revitalization of Islamic International Law in a 'Eurocentric' World, (Post Graduate Student Society of Ahmad Ibrahim Kuliyyah of Laws Magazine, Forthcoming).
• Lucia Ann Silecchia, Conflicts and Laudato Si': Ten Principles for Environmental Dispute Resolution, (Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2017).
• C.G. Bateman, The Hermeneutics of Sovereignty: The Written Word, State Sovereignty, and Freedom of Religion in the Late Antiquity Roman Empire, (The Journal Jurisprudence, vol. 34 (Hilary Term: December 2017): 311-332).
• Sally Wagenmaker, Why Religious Organizations Shouldn't Lose Tax-Exempt Status Based on Public Policy, Post-Obergefell, (January 11, 2018).
• David Orentlicher, Law, Religion, and Health Care, 8 UC Irvine Law Review (2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• John M. Bickers, False Facts and Holy War: How the Supreme Court’s Establishment Clause Cases Fuel Religious Conflict, (January 10, 2018).
• Mark Movsesian, Markets and Morals: The Limits of Doux Commerce, (William and Mary Business Law Review (Forthcoming)).
• Harold Berman & John Witte, The Integrative Christian Jurisprudence of John Selden, (in: R.H. Helmholz and Mark Hill, eds., Great Christian Jurists in English History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 139-61).
• Adam Chodorow & Ellen P. Aprill, The Parsonage Exemption Subsidizes Religion, (Tax Notes, Dec. 18, 2017).
• Fabienne Bretscher, Religious Freedom of Members of Old and New Minorities: A Double Comparison, (Erasmus Law Review, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2017).
• Jacco Bomhoff, Immanence and Irreconcilability: On the Character of Public Law as Political Jurisprudence, (Forthcoming in: M. Wilkinson & M. Dowdle (eds.), Questioning the Foundations of Public Law (Hart Publishing)).
• Gregory Scott Parks & Derek S. Hicks, ‘How Much a Dollar Cost?’ Political Ideology, Religion, and Poverty Policy Through the Lens of Kendrick Lamar’s Music, (January 18, 2018).
• Antje von Ungern-Sternberg, The Obama Era: Freedom of Religion, (Forthcoming, Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Niels Petersen and Johannes Saurer (eds.), The U.S. Supreme Court and Contemporary Constitutional Law: The Obama Era and Its Legacy, 2018).
• Marc Edelman, Trumped by the Courts? Exploring Gender Minorities' Bathroom Rights Under the Donald Trump Presidency, (University of Louisville Law Review, Vol. 56, 2018).
• Stephen Rushin & Griffin Sims Edwards, The Effect of President Trump's Election on Hate Crimes, (January 14, 2018).

From SmartCILP:

• Sofie G. Syed. Liberte, Egalite, Vie Privee: The Implications of France's Anti-Veil Laws for Privacy and Autonomy, 40 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 301-332 (2017).
• Linda Przybyszewski, Scarlet Fever, Stanley Matthews, and the Cincinnati Bible War, 42 Journal of Supreme Court History 256-274 (2017).
• Hon. Michael B. Mukasey, Judicial Independence: The Fortress Threatened From Within, 47 University of Memphis Law Review 1223-1233 (2017).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Matthew S. Erie, The Afterlife of Property: Affect, Time, Value, (Legalism: Property and Ownership, edited by Hannah Skoda, Tom Lambert, and Georgy Kantor. Oxford University Press, 89-114).
• Josh Blackman, The Domestic Establishment Clause, (Forthcoming in 23 Roger Williams University Law Review).
• Engy Abdelkader, The Muslim Ban and Separation of Powers Doctrine in Trump's America, (State, Religion and Muslims: Between Discrimination and Protection at the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Levels, Forthcoming).
• Michael A. Helfand, Reasoning Through Clashes between Religion and Equality: Case Law, Skeptics, and Social Coherence, (Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 33, 2018, Forthcoming).
• Robert A. Kahn, Denial, Memory Bans and Social Media, (January 2018).
• Michael A., Helfand, Reasoning Through Clashes between Religion and Equality: Case Law, Skeptics, and Social Coherence, (Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 33, 2018).

Recent Books:

• Katherine Ludwig Jansen, Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy (Princeton Univ. Press, Dec. 2017).
• Hüseyin Yılmaz, Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought, (Princeton Univ. Press, Dec. 2017).
• Mary Ziegler, Beyond Abortion: Roe v. Wade and the Battle for Privacy,  (Harvard Univ. Press, Feb. 2018).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Muhammad Munir, Fundamental Guarantees of the Rights of the Accused in Islamic Criminal Justice System, (Hamdard Islamicus, Issue no. 4 (2017)).
• John Witte, Law, Religion, and Metaphor, (in Günter Thomas and Heike Springhart, eds., Risiko und Vertrauen/Risk and Trust: Festschrift für Michael Welker zum 70. Geburtstag (Leipzig: Evangeliche Verlagsanhalt, 2017), 177-195).
• Muhidin Mulalić & Ahmed Kulanić, Religious Extremism vs. Multiculturalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, (Poligrafi Journal, Vol. 22, No. 85-86, p. 7-29, 2017).

Annual Bibliography of Law & Religion Publications Released By AALS Section

The Law and Religion Section of the Association of American Law Schools has released its annual newsletter which includes a 22-page bibliography of articles and books on Law and Religion published last year, of blogs, and of forthcoming publications by various Section members.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Effie Fokas, Kokkinakis at the Grassroots Level, (Religion and Human Rights 12 (2017) 210-222).
• Effie Fokas, The European Court of Human Rights at the Grassroots Level: Who Knows What About Religion at the ECtHR and to What Effects?, (Religion, State and Society, 2017, 45 (3-4)).
• Martha Albertson Fineman & Silas W. Allard, Vulnerability, the Responsive State, and the Role of Religion, (In Exploring Vulnerability, H. Springhart and G. Thomas (eds.), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2017).
• Deborah A. Widiss, Intimate Liberties and Antidiscrimination Law, (Boston University Law Review, Vol. 97, 2017).
• Prakash Shah, Orientalism, Multiculturalism, and Identity Politics: Hindus and the British Caste Law, (Forthcoming in Quaderni di Diritto e Politica Ecclesiastica (special issue: Daimon. Diritto comparato delle religioni) 2017).
• Jim Nicholls, Taken - An Islamic Inspired Collaboration to Facilitate the Freedom of People Taken Hostage Because of Their Nationality, Race or Beliefs, (December 12, 2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Bruce Ledewitz, Is Religion a Non-Negotiable Aspect of Liberal Constitutionalism?, (Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2017, No. 2, 2017).
• Robin Bradley Kar, Transformational Marriage: The Religious Case for Supporting Same-Sex Marriage, (The Contested Place of Religion in Family Life, p. 375, 2018 (Cambridge University Press) (ed., Robin Fretwell Wilson), Forthcoming).
• Michael A. Helfand, The Future of Religious Arbitration in the United States: Looking Through a Pluralist Lens, (Oxford Legal Handbook on Global Legal Pluralism, Paul Schiff Berman ed., 2018 Forthcoming).
• Richard Schragger & Micah Schwartzman, Jews, Not Pagans, (Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2017-67 (Dec. 2017)).
• Daniel O. Conkle, Religion, Law, and the Constitution, (Foundation Press, 2016).
• Eric Che Muma, The Impact of Anti-Terrorism Laws on Religious Freedom: Cameroon's Approach in Combating Terrorism and the Role of the Church, (Proceedings of the RAIS Conference: The Future of Ethics, Education and Research, 2017).
• Andras Koltay & Jeroen Temperman, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression in Western Liberal Democracies, (Forthcoming as "Introduction" in: Jeroen Temperman and András Koltay (Eds.), Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression: Comparative, Theoretical and Historical Reflections after the Charlie Hebdo Massacre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 1-21).
• Mohammad Hasan Javadi, Behzad Balazadeh & Mehdi Ghoreyshi, Restoring Dignity in Islamic Law, (December 10, 2017).

From SmartCILP:

• Lucien J. Dhooge, The Impact of State Religious Freedom Restoration Acts: An Analysis of the Interpretive Case Law, [Abstract], 52 Wake Forest Law Review 585-647 (2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Stephanie H. Barclay & Mark Rienzi, Constitutional Anomalies or As-Applied Challenges? A Defense of Religious Exemptions, (November 30, 2017).
• Blair A Major, Translating the Conflict over Trinity Western University's Proposed Law School, ((2017) 43:1 Queen's Law Journal [Forthcoming]).
• Andrea Pin, Balancing Dignity, Equality and Religious Freedom: A Transnational Topic, (Ecclesiastical Law Journal, Volume 19, Issue 3 September 2017, pp. 292-306).
• Haya Sandberg & Haim Sandberg, Dilemmas of Civil Tribunals in Formulating Their Positions Towards Religious Tribunals – The Case of Custody of Muslim Children, (5 Journal of Law, Religion and State 214-253 (2017)).
• Donald Paul Sullins, 'No Wedding's a Wedding Without a Cake': The History and Significance of the Wedding Cake, (October 24, 2017).
• Pierre-Alexandre Cardinal, The Modern and the Traditional; Islam, Islamic Law and Capitulations in Late Qajar Iran, (September 1, 2017).
• Herbert I. Lazerow, Holocaust Art Disputes: The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016, (The International Lawyer, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Tanya Monforte, Broad Strokes and Bright Lines: A Reconsideration of Shari'a Based Reservations, 35 Columbia Journal of Gender & Law 1-69 (2017).
• Julie C. Suk, Equality After Brexit: Evaluating British Contributions to EU Antidiscrimination Law, 40 Fordham International Law Journal 1535-1552 (2017).
• Khaled A. Beydoun, On Islamophobia, Immigration, and the "Muslims Bans," 43 Ohio Northern University Law Review 443-458 (2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Ronald Niezen, Power Through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation (Foreword), (March 2017, ISBN: 978-0774833899).
• Katherine M. Franke & Elizabeth Reiner Platt, Amicus Brief to U.S. Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Human Rights Commission, (Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-566 (Oct. 2017)).
• Paul Johnson, Robert M. Vanderbeck & Silvia Falcetta, Religious Marriage of Same-Sex Couples: A Report on Places of Worship in England and Wales Registered for the Solemnization of Same-Sex Marriage, (November 24, 2017).
• Steven G. Calabresi, The Free Exercise of Religion, (Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 17-26 (Nov. 2017)).
• Douglas NeJaime & Reva Siegel, Religious Accommodation, and Its Limits, in a Pluralist Society, (Religious Freedom and LGBT Rights: Possibilities and Challenges for Finding Common Ground (Robin Fretwell Wilson & William N. Eskridge, Jr. eds., Cambridge Univ. Press 2018 Forthcoming).
• Santiago Legarre, A New Natural Law Reading of the Constitution, (78:3 Louisiana Law Review (2018 Forthcoming)).
• Ellen P. Aprill, Amending the Johnson Amendment in the Age of Cheap Speech, (University of Illinois Law Review On-Line (Forthcoming)).
• Khaled A. Beydoun & Abed Ayoub, Executive Disorder: The Muslim Ban, Emergency Advocacy, and the Fires Next Time, (22 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 215 (2017)).
• Abenaa Owusu-Bempah, Hate Crime and the Legal Process: Options for Law Reform, (LSE Law - Policy Briefing Paper No. 29 (Nov. 2017)).
• Robert Leckey, Judging in Marriage's Shadow, (Feminist Legal Studies, Forthcoming).

From SSRN (Comparative religion and law, jurisprudence):

• Jainlin Chen, Chapter 2, The Law and Religious Market Theory: China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, (Cambridge University Press 2017).
• Joseph E. David, Love, Law and the Judeo-Christian Separation-Individuation,(November 15, 2017).
• Joseph E. David, Divinity, Law, and the Legal Turn in the Study of Religions, (May 15, 2017).
• Lua K. Yuille, Creating a Babel Fish for Rights & Religion: Defining 'Rights' Through Sacred Texts, (25 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 309-361 (2016)).

From SSRN (Islamic law and society):

• Intisar A. Rabb, The Curious Case of Bughaybigha, 661–883: Land and Leadership in Early Islamic Societies, (Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, Edited by Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale (2017)).
• Fajri Matahati Muhammadin & Hanindito Danusatya, De-Secularizing Legal Education in Indonesia: Examining the 'Introduction to Jurisprudence' Textbooks on Norm Classification, (International Seminar on Islamic Civilization and Thought (2017), Conference Proceeding).

From SmartCILP:

• Shai Silverman, Before the Godly: Religious Arbitration and the U.S. Legal System, 65 Drake Law Review 719-779 (2017).
• Lucien J. Dhooge, The Equivalence of Religion and Conscience, [Abstract], 31 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 253-292 (2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Philip J. Candreva, Playground or Church? Implications for Public Administration from Trinity Lutheran v. Comer, (Public Administration Review, Forthcoming).
• Julie Ringelheim, State Religious Neutrality as a Common European Standards? Reappraising the European Court of Human Rights Approach, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 6, no.1, p. 1-24 (2017)).
• Scott W. Gaylord, Is a Cake Worth a Thousand Words? Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Impact of Antidiscrimination Laws on the Marketplace of Ideas, (Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 85, Forthcoming).
• Mark Strasser, Obergefell's Legacy, (24 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 61-88 (2016)).

From SmartCILP:

• Heidi Liu & Caleb C. Wolanek, Applying Strict Scrutiny: An Empirical Analysis of Free Exercise Cases, 78 Montana Law Review 275-312 (2017).
• Symposium, The Teachings of Pope Francis: Toward a Vision of Social Justice and Sustainable Capitalism? (Introduction by Steven W. Bender; articles by Michael Kaufman, Steven A. Ramirez, Nicholas Capaldi, Gilbert Paul Carrasco, Iryna Zaverukha, Russell Powell, Dean Vincent Rougeau, Amelia J. Uelmen). 40 Seattle University Law Review 1167-1415 (2017).
• Rev. John C. Lentz Jr., The Bystander in the Bible, 2017 Utah L. Rev. 661-705.
• Marcia L. McCormick, Religious Privilege to Discriminate as Religious Freedom: From Charitable Choice to Faith Based Initiatives to RFRA and FADA, 56 Washburn Law Journal 229-243 (2017).
• John R. Dorocak, How Might a Church's Tax-Exempt Status (and Other Advantages) Be Revoked Procedurally for Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage or Be Defended Possibly as Free Exercise of Religion?, [Abstract], 53 Willamette Law Review 161-184 (2017).
• Sarah M. Stephens, Freedom From Religion: A Vulnerability Theory Approach to Restricting Conscience Exemptions in Reproductive Healthcare, 29 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 93-121 (2017).