Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Bruce Ryder, Physicians' Rights to Conscientious Objection, (in Benjamin L. Berger and Richard Moon eds, Religion and the Exercise of Public Authority 127-147 (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2016)).
• Nicholas Aroney & Matthew Turnour, Charities are the New Constitutional Law Frontier, (Melbourne University Law Review, Vol. 41, 2017).
• Steven Douglas Smith, Culture Wars as Pagan Counterrevolution, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-293, 2017).
• June Carbone, 'Blue' Morality and the Legitimacy of the State — Ed Rubin's Soul, Self, and Society: The New Morality and the Modern State, (Law and Social Inquiry, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2017).
• Louis W. Hensler, The Legal Concept of ‘Natural Affection’: Natural Law or Natural Selection?, (June 21, 2017).
• Vebjørn Innset Hurum, Full-Face Concealment Ban in Public Places in Europe: How the European Court of Human Rights Has Failed to Do Its Job, (Penn Statim: The Online Companion to the Penn State Law Review, 2017).
• Joshua J. Craddock, The Case for Complicity-Based Religious Accommodations, (June 25, 2017).
• Hershey H. Friedman, The Wit and Sarcasm of the Talmudic Sage Ulla, (June 21, 2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Gábor Halmai, Varieties of State-Church Relations and Religious Freedom through Three Case Studies, (Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2017, No. 2, 2017).
• Ahmed Elkahwagy, The Sacred Text between the American Constitution and the Religious Discourse in Egypt, (May 25, 2017).
• Brian D. Earp & Robert Darby, Circumcision, Sexual Experience, and Harm, (University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2017).
• Steven Douglas Smith, The Pagan City, the Christian City, and the Secular City, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-290 (2017)).
• Steven Douglas Smith, Coming Home? The Imminent Immanent City, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-291 (2017)).
• Jeffrey A. Parness, Marriage Equality, Parentage (In)Equality, (32 Wisconsin Journal of Law Gender and Society __ (Fall 2017) Forthcoming).
• James Fishman, Rethinking Riley: Applying Commensurate and Intermediate Scrutiny Standards to Judicial Evaluation of Charitable Solicitation Regulation, (June 1, 2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Craig S. Lerner, The Tower of Babel Revisited: Global Governance as a Problematic Solution to Existential Threats, (North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2017 Forthcoming).
• Yaniv Roznai, Negotiating the Eternal: The Paradox of Entrenching Secularism in Constitutions, (2017 Mich. St. L. Rev. 253).
• Derek Smith, Render Unto Caesar: The Constitutionality of Ontario's Effective Referral Requirement for Medical Assistance in Dying (June 7, 2017).
• Terry S. Kogan, Public Restrooms and the Distorting of Transgender Identity, (North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 4, 2017).
• Alqahtani Suaad Muhammad, Western Feminism or Return to Authentic Islam? Jordanian Women in Faqir's Pillars of Salt and My Name Is Salma, (AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Volume 1, Number 2, May 2017).

From SmartCILP:

• Paul Christopher Johnson, Possessed Persons and Legal Persons in Brazil, 31 Maryland Journal of International Law 180-216 (2016).
• Justin B. Richland. Paths In the Wilderness?: The Politics and Practices of Hopi Religious Freedom in Hopitutskwa, 31 Maryland Journal of International Law 217-243 (2016).
• Sara Movahed, Hope for the Hopi In a Post-Hobby Lobby World: The Supreme Court's Recent Interpretation of RFRA and Strengthening Native Americans' Religious-Based Land Rights Claims, 31 Maryland Journal of International Law 244-256 (2016).
• Andrew Forsyth, Book Review. Not Without Honor? Prophecy Without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square by Cathleen Kaveny, [Abstract], 29 Yale Journal of Law & Humanities 113-127 (2017).
• Charles Adside, III, Constitutional Damage Control: Same-Sex Marriage, Smith's Hybrid Rights Doctrine, and Protecting the Preacher Man After Obergefell, 27 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 145-205 (2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Teneille R. Brown, Medical Futility and Religious Free Exercise, (First Amendment Law Review, Vol. 15, No. 43, 2017).
• Robert W. McGee, Are Muslims More Likely to Beat Their Wives Than Members of Other Religions? An Empirical Study of 60 Countries, (May 30, 2017).
• Kim Treiger-Bar-Am, Copyright and Positive Freedom: Kantian and Jewish Thought on Authorial Rights and Duties, (63(4) Journal of the Copyright Society U.S.A. 551 (Fall, 2016)).
• Robert C. Blitt, Equality and Nondiscrimination through the Eyes of an International Religious Organization: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) Response to Women's Rights, (Wisconsin International Law Journal, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2017).
• Stephen Gillers, A Rule to Forbid Bias and Harassment in Law Practice: A Guide for State Courts Considering Model Rule 8.4(g), (Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 30, No. 195, 2017).
• Vivencio Ballano, Enforcing the Canon Law: Normative Pluralism and Clerical Abuse in the Catholic Church, (May 6, 2017).
• Ari Herbert, Can We Still Talk Things Out?: A Case Study of Campus Hate Speech Regulations at the University of Texas, (Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Kaiponanea T. Matsumura, Choosing Marriage, (UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 5, 2017).

From SmartCILP:

• Stephanie Pisko, (Un?)lawful Religious Discrimination [link is pdf download], 9 Drexel Law Review 101-128 (2016).
• Arthur H. Garrison, Defining the Meaning and Purpose of Justice, Law, and Criminal Justice: A Hermeneutical Judeo-Christian Biblical Perspective, 55 Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 1-82 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Samuel Moyn, Thomas Pink, John Finnis & Lorenzo Zucca, Christian Human Rights: A Debate, (King's Law Journal, Vol 28.1 (2017), p.1-50).
• Barry W. Bussey, Rights Inflation: Attempts to Redefine Marriage and the Freedom of Religion: The Case of Trinity Western University School of Law, (Regent University Law Review, Vol. 29, No. 197, 2017).
• Sepehr Shahshahani & Lawrence J. Liu, Religion and Judging on the Federal Courts of Appeals, (May 20, 2017).
• Christopher C. Lund, Religion is Special Enough, (Virginia Law Review, Vol. 103, p. 481, 2017).
• Howard Kislowicz, The Court and Freedom of Religion, ((2017) 78 S.C.L.R. (2d) 221).
• Adam Epstein, Michigan and Sports Law, (Journal of Law, Business & Ethics, Vol. 24, Forthcoming).
• Santiago Legarre & Gregory J. Mitchell, Secondary Effects and Public Morality, (40 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 320 (2017)).
• Courtney G. Joslin, The Gay Rights Canon and the Right to Nonmarriage, (97 Boston University Law Review 425 (2017)).
• Mohamed Badar & Masaki Nagata, Modern Extremist Groups and the Division of the World: A Critique from Islamic Perspective, (Arab Law Quarterly 31 (2017) Forthcoming).
• Mohamed Badar, Masaki Nagata & Tiphanie Tueni, The Radical Application of the Islamist Concept of Takfir, (Arab Law Quarterly 31 (2017) 132-160).

From SmartCILP:

• Heather M. Kolinsky, Situating the Corporation Within the Vulnerability Paradigm: What Impact Does Corporate Personhood Have on Vulnerability, Dependency, and Resilience, [Abstract], 25 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & Law 51-86 (2017).
• Patrick B. Grant, Islamic Law, International Law, and Non-International Armed Conflict in Syria, 35 Boston University International Law Journal 1-37 (2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Wojciech Sadurski, Illicit Legislative Intentions in the Separation of State and Religion: Comparative Constitutional Insights, (Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 17/39 (2017)).
• Elena Falletti, Religious Roots of the Duty of Marital Fidelity and the Evolution of Italian Family Law, (May 11, 2017).
• Antje von Ungern-Sternberg, Religious Profiling, Statistical Discrimination and the Fight Against Terrorism in Public International Law, (Forthcoming, Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack (ed.), Religion and International Law, Brill 2017). 
• Robert K. Vischer, How Should a Law School's Religious Affiliation Matter in a Difficult Market?, (University of Toledo Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2017).
• Andreas Follesdal, Religion and the State – the European Court of Human Rights and the ‘Lautsi' Case About Crucifixes in Italian Class Rooms, (April 23, 2017).
• Blair A. Major, TWU Law: The Boundaries and Ethos of the Legal Community, (Alberta Law Review, Vol. 55, No. 1 [Forthcoming]).
• Mathilde Cohen, The Comparative Constitutional Law of Cows and Milk — India and the United States, (Indian Journal of Constitutional Law, Forthcoming).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Ifzal Mehmood & Muhammad Abdullah Fazi, The Right to Marry in Islam: Scrutinizing the Customs of Marriages in the Pashtun Belt of Pakistan, (Pakistan Annual Research Journal, Vol. 52, 2016).
• Ahmar Afaq & Prateep Sarkar, Safeguards to Prisoners of War in International Law: Revisiting From Islamic Law Perspective, (Tabish Eqbal, Ali Faran Gulrez et. al. (eds.) Contemporary Legal Issues: Prospects and Challenges, 8 (2016)).
• Mohammed Alzahrani & William L. Megginson, Finance as Worship: A Survey of Islamic Finance Research, (CEIF Discussion Paper (4/2017)).

From SmartCILP:

• Kim Treiger Bar-Am, Copyright and Positive Freedom: Kantian and Jewish Thought on Authorial Rights and Duties, [Abstract], 63 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 551-571 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Madalyn Doucet Vicry, That Kind of Girl: Effects of Homeschooling on the Sexual Health of Women and Girls, (Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Vol. 18, No. 103, 2017).
• Wojciech Sadurski, Judicial Review and Public Reason, (Comparative Judicial Review, Rosalind Dixon, Erin F. Delaney, eds, Edward Elgar, UK, 2017, Forthcoming).
• Caroline Mala Corbin, A Free Speech Tale of Two County Clerk Refusals, (Ohio State Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Elaine Rene Elizabeth Panter, Tanya Primiani, Tazeen Hasan & Eduardo Calderon Pontaza, Antidiscrimination Law and Shared Prosperity: An Analysis of the Legal Framework of Six Economies and Their Impact on the Equality of Opportunities of Ethnic, Religious, and Sexual Minorities, (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7992 (March 3, 2017)).
• Robin Bradley Kar, Transformational Marriage: How to End the Culture Wars Over Same-Sex Marriage, (The Contested Place of Religion in Family Life (Cambridge University Press 2017)).
• Robin Elliot & Michael Elliot, 'Striking the Right Balance: Rethinking the Contest between Freedom of Religion and Equality Rights in Trinity Western University v. The Law Society of British Columbia', (Forthcoming in the University of British Columbia Law Review, (2017) Volume 50:3).
• Clifford Rosky, Still Not Equal: A Report from the Red States, (After Marriage Equality: The Future of LGBT Rights pgs. 73-101 (2016)).

SSRN (Islamic Law)

• Hae Won Bang, Production of Islamic Knowledge in the European Diaspora: A Case Study of Digital Texts from a British Muslim Halal Certifier, (May 30, 2016).
• Mmaphuti David Tuba, Lodhi 5 Properties Investments CC v Firstrand Bank Limited [2015] 3 All SA 32 (SCA) and the Enforcement of Islamic Banking Law in South Africa ,(Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 20, 2017).

From SmartCILP:

• Symposium: Law and Religion in an Increasingly Polarized America. Articles by Kathleen A. Brady, Marc O. DeGirolami, Kent Greenawalt, B. Jesse Hill, Andrew Koppelman, Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., Ira C. Lupu, Robert W. Tuttle, James M. Oleske, Jr. and Robin Fretwell Wilson. 20 Lewis & Clark Law Review 1093-1458 (2017).
• Allan W. Vestal, Regarding Oaths of Office, 37 Pace Law Review 292-325 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Russell G. Pearce, Adam Winer & Emily Jenab, A Challenge to Bleached out Professional Identity: How Jewish Was Justice Louis D. Brandeis?, (Touro Law Review, Vol. 33, No. 335, 2017).
• Linda C. McClain, The Intersection of Civil and Religious Family Law in the U.S. Constitutional Order: A Mild Legal Pluralism, (Religion, Secularism & Constitutional Democracy (Jean L Cohen and Cécile Laborde, Columbia University Press 2016), pp. 379-399).
• Michael V. Hernandez, In Defense of Pluralism: Religiously Affiliated Law Schools, Olympianism, and Christophobia, (University of Toledo Law Review, Vol. 48, 2017).
• Linda C. McClain, Reading Deboer and Obergefell through The ‘Moral Readings versus Originalisms’ Debate: From Constitutional ‘Empty Cupboards’ to Evolving Understandings, (11 Problema: Anuario de Filosofía y Teoria del Derecho 85-130 (Dec. 2017) ).

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

• George Baylon Radics & Yee Suan Poon, Amos Yee, Free Speech, and Maintaining Religious Harmony in Singapore, (University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2016).
• Michael M. Karayanni, Multiculturalism As Covering: On the Accommodation of Minority Religions in Israel, (American Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming).
• Andrea Quinn, After Şahin v. Turkey and S.A.S. v. France: Scarves, Strategy and State Actors, (May 4, 2017).
• Ben Saul, Minorities and Counter-Terrorism Law, (European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Forthcoming).
• Karin Carmit Carmit Yefet, Synagogue and State in the Israeli Military: A Story of 'Inappropriate Integration', (10 Journal of Law & Ethics of Human Rights 223 (2016)).
• Benjamin Geva, The Medieval Hawale: The Legal Nature of the Suftaj and Other Islamic Payment Instruments, (Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 42/2017).

From SmartCILP:

• Marvin Lim, Epistemology in Uncertainty: Distinguishing Science and Faith in the Quantum Age, [Abstract], 53 California Western Law Review 1-47 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Jonas J Monast, Brian C. Murray & Jonathan B. Wiener, On Morals, Markets, and Climate Change: Exploring Pope Francis' Challenge, (Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 80, 2017).
• Jonathan F. Will, I. Glenn Cohen & Eli Y. Adashi, Personhood Seeking New Life with Republican Control, (Indiana Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Tara A. Smith, Religious Liberty or Religious License? Legal Schizophrenia and the Case against Exemptions, (Journal of Law and Politics, Vol. 32, Fall 2016).
• Tara A. Smith, What Good Is Religious Freedom? Locke, Rand, and the Non-Religious Case for Respecting It, (Arkansas Law Review, Vol. 69, No. 4, 2017).
• Michael J. Perry, A Global Political Morality: Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism, (Emory Legal Studies Research Paper 17-431 (2017)).
• Jonathan F. Will, Religion As a Controlling Interference in Medical Decision-Making by Minors, (October 19, 2016).
• Sarah Khanghahi, Thirty Years after Al-Khazraji: Revisiting Employment Discrimination Under Section 1981, (64 UCLA Law Review 794 (2017).

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

• Atta Ul Mustafa, Proposed Procedural Amendments to Check Misuse of Blasphmey Laws in Pakistan, (July 4, 2016).
• Matthew S. Erie, The Traveling Waqf: Property, Religion, and Mobility Beyond China, (Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 25, (1-2, Special Issue on Waqfs) (February 2018)).
• Paul Johnson & Robert M. Vanderbeck, Sexual Orientation Equality and Religious Exceptionalism in the Law of the United Kingdom: The Role of the Church of England, (April 25, 2017).
• Dwight G. Newman, Ties that Bind: Religious Freedom and Communities (Introduction), (in Dwight Newman, ed., Religious Freedom and Communities (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2016)).
• Darren Rosenblum, Sex Quotas and Burkini Bans, (Tulane Law Review, Vol. 92, 2017).

From SmartCILP:

• Herman D. Hofman, For Richer or For Poorer: How Obergefell v. Hodges Affects the Tax-Exempt Status of Religious Organizations that Oppose Same-Sex Marriage, 52 Gonzaga Law Review 21-57 (2016/17).
• 2015 Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture: Religious Freedom, Social Justice and Public Policy. Keynote lecture by Lawrence G. Sager; contributions by Christopher C. Lund, Matthew T. Bodie, Elizabeth Sepper, Jeffrey A. Redding and B. Jessie Hill. 60 St. Louis University Law Journal 585-710 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Valeriano Diviacchi, Why Tolerate Law? (April 7, 2017).
• Eric Owusu Boahen & Emmanuel C. Mamatzakis, The Moderating Effect of Legal Environment on Culture and Religiosity Towards Classification Shifting Behaviour – Global Evidence, (April 9, 2017).
• Cameron Rode, Faith, Football, and the First Amendment: Threading the Needle between Establishment and Free Exercise, (November 21, 2016).
• Carl H. Esbeck, Do Discretionary Religious Exemptions Violate The Establishment Clause?, (University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-13 (2017)).
• Heidi Brady & Robin Fretwell Wilson, The Future of Religious Liberty Protections in Illinois: Harmonizing Religious Exercise and Legitimate Government Concerns, (Chapter 2, In: An Illinois Constitution for the Twenty-First Century, 2017).
• Amos A. Israel-Vleeschhouwer, Introducing Jews' Law Through the Study of Genocide and Rape, (Jewish Law Association Studies XXVI (2016), 70-109).
• Elizabeth Hubertz, Loving the Sinner: Evangelical Colleges and Their LGB Students, (35 Quinnipiac Law Review 147 (2017)).
• Michael J. Bazyler, The Holocaust at Nuremberg: What the Record Reveals, (Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, Vol. 39, 2017).
• Iain T. Benson, Getting Religion and Belief Wrong by Definition: Why Atheism and Agnosticism Need to Be Understood as Beliefs and Why Religious Freedom Is Not 'Impossible': A Response to Sullivan and Hurd, (April 20, 2017).

From SSRN (Legal Issues and Islam):

• Ahmed A. Altawyan, Rethinking Gender Equality in the Workplace, (Review of Integrative Business and Economics Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp.142-146, April 2017).
• Andrea Pin, Is There a Place for Islam in the West? Adjudicating the Muslim Headscarf in Europe and the United States, (Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Lucas Newbill, A Nurse's Face: The Burqa in the Hospital, (North Carolina Central Law Review. Vol. 39, Pg. 33, 2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Sohail Wahedi, Council of State of Belgium and the Ban on Wearing Religious Symbols at Public Schools (The Headscarves Judgement), (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion (2016) 5 (3): 624-625).
• Luke Beck, The Australian Constitution's Religious Tests Clause as an Anti-Discrimination Provision, (Monash University Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 545-578, 2017).
• Corey L. Brettschneider, Praying for America: The Constitutional Ban on Animus-Based and Theocratic Reasoning in the Establishment, Free Exercise and Equal Protection Clauses, (March 1, 2017).
• Maarc O. DeGirolami, The Bloating of the Constitution: Equality and the U.S. Establishment Clause, (The Social Equality of Religion or Belief (Alan Carling ed. 2016)).
• Stephen R. Munzer, The German Circumcision Controversy — And Beyond, (University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law Online (2017)).
• Shauna Van Praagh, Welcome to the Neighbourhood: Religion, Law and Living Together, (D. Newman, ed., Religious Freedom and Communities (Markham: Lexis Nexis, 2016)).
• Muhammad Masum Billah, Agency Contract under Conventional Law and Islamic Law as Manifested in the Civil Code of Oman: A Comparative Analysis, (Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Vol. 4 (2016), pp. 109-126).
• Ian Ramsay & Miranda Webster, Registered Charities and Governance Standard 5: An Evaluation, (Australian Business Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 127-158, 2017).

From SmartCILP:

• Joseph Kary, Judgments of Peace. Montreal's Jewish Arbitration Courts, 1914-1976, 56 American Journal of Legal History 436-489 (2016).
• Kyle C. Velte, All Fall Down: A Comprehensive Approach to Defeating the Religious Right’s Challenges to Antidiscrimination Statutes, 49 Connecticut Law Review 1-54 (2016).
• John Boersma, The Accreditation of Religious Law Schools in Canada and the United States, 2016 BYU Law Review 1081.
• Barry W. Bussey, The Legal Revolution Against the Place of Religion: The Case of Trinity Western University Law School, 2016 BYU Law Review 1127.
• David Little, Human Rights, Religious Freedom, and Peace, 2016 BYU Law Review 1215.
• Michael Quinlan, When the State Requires Doctors to Act Against their Conscience: The Religious Freedom Implications of the Referral and the Direction Obligations of Health Practitioners in Victoria and New South Wales, 2016 BYU Law Review 1237.
• Andrew L. Milne, Sharia and Anti-Sharia: Ethical Challenges for the Cross-Cultural Lawyer Representing Muslim Women, [Abstract], 57 South Texas Law Review 449-468 (2016).
• R.H. Helmholz, The Church and Magna Carta, 25 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 425-436 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Rafael Domingo, God and the Secular Legal System: Introduction, (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
• Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr., Agora, Dignity, and Discrimination: On the Constitutional Shortcomings of 'Conscience' Laws that Promote Inequality in the Public Marketplace, (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 20, 2017).
• Rafael Domingo, Why Tolerate Religion? A Response to Brian Leiter, (March 21, 2017).
• Jonathan R. Cohen, A Genesis of Conflict: The Zero-Sum Mindset, (17 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 427 (2016)).
• Ioana Cismas, Reflections on the Presence and Absence of Religious Actors in Transitional Justice Processes: On Legitimacy and Accountability, (Roger Duthie and Paul Seils, eds., Justice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies (ICTJ, 2017), pp. 302-343.
• Nuno Ferreira, Commentary on the Re-Written Judgment in R (on the Application of Begum) V. Governors of Denbigh High School, (Helen Stalford, Kathryn Hollingsworth and Stephen Gilmore, Children’s Rights Judgments, Hart, 2017 (Forthcoming)).
• Anthony Michael Kreis, Against Gay Potemkin Villages: Title VII and Sexual Orientation Discrimination, (96 Texas Law Review Online (2017).
• Thomas Wooden, Indigenous Sacred Sites as Cultural Property, (RUMLAE Research Paper No. 17-05 (2017).
• Peter J. Smith & Robert W. Tuttle, Civil Procedure and the Ministerial Exception, 86 Fordham Law Review (Forthcoming).

From SSRN (Legal History):

• Nico Schröter, Nico, Order, Authority, and Law: On the Development of Modern Conceptions of Political Order, Legitimate Rule, and Law and How They are Challenged, (LSE Law Review vol. 2 (2017), pp. 24-44).
• M.C. Mirow, Juan Solórzano Pereira,(in Rafael Domingo and Javier Martinez-Torron, Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History (Cambridge University Press, 2017)).
• C.G. Bateman, Supreme Court of the Roman Empire: Constantine's Bishops,(March 21, 2017).

From SmartCILP:

• Nathalie Martin, Right Scholarship and the Goddesses of Commercial Law, 34 Columbia Journal of Gender & Law 124-158 (2016).
• Kim E. Clark, Critical Race Theory, Transformation and Praxis, 45 Southwestern Law Review 795-823 (2016).
• James G. Wilson, Bridging the Secular-Religious Divide with Assistance from the Buddha, [Abstract], 45 Southwestern Law Review 861-895 (2016).
• Stacy A. Scaldo, Seditious Acts of Faith: God, Government, Conscience, and Boiling Frogs, 29 Regent University Law Review 87-121 (2016-2017).
• Chief Judge Glen A. Huff, Repairing Our Foundation Through Christian Scholarship, 29 Regent University Law Review 123-132 (2016-2017).
• Eric G. Osborne & Michael D. Bush, Rethinking Deference: How the History of Church Property Disputes Calls Into Question Long-Standing First Amendment Doctrine, 69 SMU Law Review 811-842 (2016).
• Allan W. Vestal, Fixing Witness Oaths: Shall We Retire the Rewarder of Truth and Avenger of Falsehood?, [Abstract], 27 University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy 443-504 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Rafael Domingo, Theology and Jurisprudence. A Good Partnership?, (Journal of Law and Religion, 32, 2017, Forthcoming).
• Rafael Domingo, The Constitutional Justification of Religion, (March 9, 2017).
• Christine P. Bartholomew, Exorcising the Clergy Privilege, (Virginia Law Review, Vol. 103, 2017).
• Paul H.Robinson and Research Group, Criminal Law, Draft Report of the Somali Criminal Law Recodification Initiative, (U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-13 (2017)).
• Elizabeth Sepper, Zombie Religious Institutions, (Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 112, 2018, Forthcoming).
• Peter H. Schuck, One Nation Undecided: Clear Thinking About Five Hard Issues that Divide Us, (Princeton University Press, March 2017).
• Lisa Mathews, Free Exercise and Third-Party Harms: Why Scholars Are Wrong and RFRA Is Right, (Trinity Law Review, Forthcoming).

From elsewhere:

• Marsha B. Freeman, Holier Than You and Me: ‘Religious Liberty’ Is the New Bully Pulpit and Its New Meaning Is Endangering Our Way of Life, 69 Arkansas Law Review 881 (2017).
•  Tara Smith, What Good Is Religious Freedom? Locke, Rand, and the Non-Religious Case for Respecting It, 69 Arkansas Law Review 944 (2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Khaled A. Beydoun, Acting Muslim, (Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL), Vol. 53, Forthcoming).
• Jaakko Husa, Hindu Law - Stateless Law?, (Scandinavian Studies in Law, Vol. 62, 2017).
• Lama Abu-Odeh, Religious Difference in a Secular Age: The Minority Report by Saba Mahmoud (2016) Book Review, (Feminist Dissent (Forthcoming)).
• Bronwyn Conwell Roantree , Challenging Statutory Accommodations for Religiously Affiliated Daycares: An Application of the Third Party Harm Doctrine, (January 1, 2017).
• Anthony Michael Kreis, Amputating Rights-Making, (Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 69).
• Jerg Gutmann & Stefan Voigt, The Rule of Law and Islam, (Edward Elgar Handbook on the Rule of Law, Forthcoming).
• Harold Anthony Lloyd, Why Originalism Cannot Work: Lessons from Logic, Scripture, and Art, (March 5, 2017).
• Mary Ziegler, The New Negative Rights: Abortion Funding and Constitutional Law after Whole Woman's Health, (March 9, 2017).
• Miranda Perry Fleischer, Subsidizing Charity Liberally, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-261 (2017)).

From SSRN (Marriage):

• Anthony Michael Kreis, Stages of Constitutional Grief: Democratic Constitutionalism and the Marriage Revolution, (University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 20).
• Kerry Abrams, The Rights of Marriage: Obergefell, Din, and the Future of Constitutional Family Law, (March 7, 2017).

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• Edward A. Zelinsky, Churches' Lobbying and Campaigning: A Proposed Statutory Safe Harbor for Internal Church Communications, (Rutgers Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Jared A. Goldstein, Unfit for the Constitution: Nativism and the Constitution, from the Founding Fathers to Donald Trump, (Roger Williams Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 174 (2017)).
• Jonathan P. Kuhn, The Religious Difference: Equal Protection and the Accommodation of (Non)-Religion, (Washington University Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 1, 2016).
• Jerrold A. Long, The Origins of a Rebellion: Religion, Land, and a Western Environmental Ethic, (February 26, 2017).
• Timothy Lubin, Custom in the Vedic Ritual Codes as an Emergent Legal Principle, (Journal of the American Oriental Society 136.4 (2016): 669–687).
• Roger Colinvaux, The Importance of a Participatory Charitable Giving Incentive, (Tax Notes, Vol. 154, No. 5, 2017).

From SmartCILP:

• Cathleen Kaveny & Kevin L. Flannery, Response and Rejoinder: On Voting, Intrinsic Evil, and Ranking of Political Issues, [Abstract], 61 American Journal of Jurisprudence 259-273 (2016).
• Nicole Buonocore Porter, Accommodating Everyone, 47 Seton Hall Law Review 85-136 (2016).
• Samuel D. Brunson, Taxing Utopia, 47 Seton Hall Law Review 137-196 (2016).
• Robin Maril & Sarah Warbelow, Finding an End to Federally Sanctioned Discrimination: A Call to Rescind the 2007 OLC World Vision Memo, 24 American University Journal of Gender Social Policy & Law 445-467 (2016).
• Haider Ala Hamoudi, Resurrecting Islam or Cementing Social Hierarchy?: Reexamining the Codification of "Islamic" Personal Status Law, 33 Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law 329-382 (2016).
• David L. Gregory, Is Religious Liberty the Ultimate Management Prerogative?: Some Reflections on Pacific Lutheran University and Service Employees International Union, Local 925, [Abstract], 33 Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal 207-240 (2016).
• Jonathan D. Colan, The Supreme Court's Talmudic Debate on the Meanings of Guilt, Innocence, and Finality, 73 Washington & Lee Law Review 1243-1294 (2016).
• Vol. 1, Issue 1 of Buddhism Law & Society has appeared.

Recent Book:

• Patrick M. Brennan &William S. Brewbaker III, Christian Legal Thought: Materials and Cases, (Foundation Press, 2017).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Satvinder Juss, Back to the Future: Justiciability, Religion, and the Figment of 'Judicial No-Man's Land', (Public Law Issue 2, April 2016, pp. 198-206).
• John D. Inazu, Law, Religion, and the Purpose of the University, (Washington University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Giulia Capacci, In Vitro Fertilization, the Catholic Church and National Survival: The Discursive Construction of Reproductive Rights in Poland, (February 3, 2017).
• Barbara P. Billauer, The Secrets of Jethro - Father of Jurisprudence, Patriarch of the Druze, Unifier of Legal Systems, (February 21, 2017).
• Thomas J. McSweeney, Salvation by Statute: Magna Carta, Legislation, and the King's Soul, (William & Mary Bill of Rights, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Deepa Das Acevedo, Temples, Courts, and Dynamic Equilibrium in the Indian Constitution, 64 American Journal of Comparative Law 555-581 (2016).
• Shlomo Pill, Jewish Law Antecedents to American Constitutional Thought, [Abstract], 85 Mississippi Law Journal 643-696 (2016).
• Lua Kamal Yuille, Creating a Babel Fish for Rights & Religion: Defining 'Rights' Through Sacred Texts, [Abstract], 25 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 309-361 (2016).
• Nelson Tebbe. McElroy Lecture. How To Think About Religious Freedom In an Egalitarian Age, [Abstract], 3 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 353-367 (2016).
• Symposium: Global Legal and Religious Perspectives on Elder Care. Introduction by Amy Zeittlow and Naomi Cahn; articles by Israel (Issi) Doron, Charles Foster, M. Christian Green, Nancy J. Knauer, Thomas G. Long, Rabbi Edith M. Meyerson, Diane E. Meier, Allison Kestenbaum, Rahimjon Abdugafurov, Beverly Moran and Xing Guang. 31 Journal of Law & Religion 115-226 (2016). 

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Andrew Koppelman, If Liberals Knew Themselves Better, Conservatives Might Like Them Better, (20 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 1201 (2017))
• Graham Polando, Restraining Free Exercise: Protection Orders and Church Attendance, (February 5, 2017).
• B. Jessie Hill, Kingdom Without End? The Inevitable Expansion of Religious Sovereignty Claims, (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 20, 2017).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson, Unpacking the Relationship between Conscience and Access, (Forthcoming, Law, Religion, and Health in the United States, Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Elizabeth Sepper, eds. Cambridge U. Press 2017).
• Sahar F. Aziz, Losing the 'War of Ideas': A Critique of Countering Violent Extremism Programs, (Texas International Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Christian Turner, Submarine Statutes, (February 8, 2017).
• Mary Anne Case, Forms of Patriarchy in Amoris Laetitia and in the Papacy of Francis, (U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 613 (2017)).
• Claudia E. Haupt, Antidiscrimination in the Legal Profession and the First Amendment: A Partial Defense of Model Rule 8.4(g), (19 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Online (2017 Forthcoming)).
• Gertrude N. Levine & Samuel J. Levine, Internet Ethics, American Law, and Jewish Law: A Comparative Overview (21 J. Tech. L. & Pol’y 37 (2016)).

From SSRN (Focus on individuals):

• Andrew Koppelman, Kent Greenawalt, Defender of the Faith, (Texas Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Michael John DeBoer, Justice Brent E. Dickson, State Constitutional Interpretation, and the Religion Provisions of the Indiana Constitution, (Indiana Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2016).

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

• Shital Prakash Kharat, Effect of the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005 – Judicial Response, (February 6, 2017).
• Grant Robert Hooper, From the Magna Carta to Bentham to Modern Australian Judicial Review: Themes of Practicality and Spirituality, (Australian Institute of Administrative Law (AIAL) Forum, Vol. 84, pp. 22-44, 2016).

From SSRN (LGBT Rights):

• Reva Siegel, Same-Sex Marriage and Backlash: Consensus, Conflict, and Constitutional Culture, (February 9, 2017).
• Susan Frelich Appleton, Obergefell's Liberties: All in the Family, (Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 77, No. 5, 2016).
• Malcolm Langford, Revisiting Joslin v. New Zealand: Same-Sex Marriage in Polarised Times, (E. Brems and E. Desmet, Integrated Human Rights in Practice: Rewriting Human Rights Decisions (Edward Elgar, 2017)).
• Katherine Pratt, The Tax Definition of 'Medical Care': A Critique of the Startling IRS Arguments in O'Donnabhain v. Commissioner, (23 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 313 (2016)).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson, Squaring Faith and Sexuality: Religious Institutions and the Unique Challenge of Sports, (Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Vol. 34, No. 385, 2016).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson, The Nonsense About Bathrooms: How Purported Concerns over Safety Block LGBT Nondiscrimination Laws and Obscure Real Religious Liberty Concerns, (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2017).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Michael J. Churgin, Is Religion Different? Is There a Thumb on the Scale in Refugee Convention Appellate Court Adjudication in the United States? Some Preliminary Thoughts, [Abstract], 51 Texas International Law Journal 213-228 (2016).
• David L. Hudson, Jr. & Emily H. Harvey, Dissecting The Hybrid Rights Exception: Should It Be Expanded or Rejected?, [Abstract], 38 University of Arkansas Little Rock Law Review 449-475 (2016).
• Hon. Gail T. Kulick, Tadd M. Johnson, Rebecca St. George, & Emily Segar-Johnson, From Dysfunction and Polarization to Legislation: Native American Religious Freedom Rights and Minnesota Autopsy Law, 42 Mitchell Hamline Law Reveiw 1699-1721 (2016).
• Law, Religion and the Family Unit After Hobby Lobby: A Tribute to Professor Harry Krause, 2016 University of Illinois Law Review 1227-1808.
• Symposium: Law and Religion In an Increasingly Polarized America,(Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vo. 20, No. 4, 2017).
• Symposium on Religious Liberty and Christian Higher Education, (Two Kingdoms Network, Concordia University, 2017). The Symposium, among others, includes Howard M. Friedman, The Future of Religious Liberty.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Gary S. Gildin, A Blessing in Disguise: Protecting Minority Faiths Through State Religious Freedom Non-Restoration Acts, (23 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 411 (2017)).
• Eduardo M. Penalver, Carbon Trading and the Morality of Markets in Laudato Si, (Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-3 (2017)).
• Tony Sax, Rethinking Legislative Prayer after Town of Greece: How Ceremonial Deism Would Include More and Exclude Less, (2016).
• Jeroen Temperman, Freedom of Religion or Belief in Prison, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion (2017)).
• Sherally K. Munshi, Race, Geography, and Mobility, (Georgetown Immigration Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 245, 2016).
• Timothy Lubin, The Theory and Practice of Property in Premodern South Asia: Disparities and Convergences, (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Forthcoming).
• Santiago Legarre, Natural Law in Judaism Revisited, (82 Prudentia Iuris 239 (2016)).
• Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod,  Aileen M. Marty & Elana Marty-Nelson, Tears in Heaven: Religiously and Culturally Sensitive Laws for Preventing the Next Pandemic, (66 Cath. U. L. Rev. 117 (2017)).
• Brett G. Scharffs, Why Religious Freedom? Why the Religiously Committed, the Religiously Indifferent and Those Hostile to Religion Should Care, (BYU Law Research Paper No. 17-01 (2017)).
• Richard Traunmüller & Marc Helbling, Public Opinion Backlash to Liberal Policy: The Case of Muslim Political Rights in the UK, (January 26, 2017).

From SSRN (Tax and Non-Profits):

• James Patrick Huston, Pauper's Parity: Taking Away the Fine Print of 'Your Contribution is Tax-Deductible', (2016).
• Adam Chodorow, The Parsonage Exemption, (January 28, 2017).
• Samuel D. Brunson & David Herzig, A Diachronic Approach to Bob Jones: Religious Tax Exemptions after Obergefell, (Indiana Law Journal, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Ivan E. Bodensteiner, Not Surprisingly, A Crucifix Conveys a Religious Message, 49 Valparaiso University Law Review 897-906 (2015).
• Robert M. Jarvis, The Story of the Gary, Indiana Crucifix, 49 Valparaiso University Law Review 873-896 (2015).
• Jessica L. Roberts, An Alternative Theory of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, 22 Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 85-120 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Benjamin Schonthal & Tom Ginsburg, Setting an Agenda for the Socio-Legal Study of Contemporary Buddhism (Introduction), (Asian Journal of Law and Society 3:1-16 (2016)).
• Levi Cooper, Culpability for Curses in Jewish Law and Mystical Lore, (Wizards vs. Muggles: Essays on Identity and the Harry Potter Universe, ed. Christopher E. Bell (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016), 168-193).
• Netta Barak Corren, Beyond Dissent and Compliance, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Forthcoming).
• Dimitry Gegenava, Some Technical and Legal Problems of the Constitutional Agreement, (Journal of Law, No. 1, 2016).
• Nelson Tebbe, Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age (Introduction), (N. Tebbe, Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age, Harvard University Press, 2017).
• Helge Årsheim, Religion and International Organizations, (In Ian Hurd, Ian Johnstone, and Jacob Katz Cogan (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 490-507 (2016)).
• Ioana Cismas, The Child's Best Interests and Religion: A Case Study of the Holy See's Best Interests Obligations and Clerical Child Sexual Abuse, (Elaine E. Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane (eds.) Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Best Interests, Welfare and Well-Being (Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 310-325).
• Dipayan Chowdhury & Atmaja Tripathy, Recognizing the Right of the Third Gender to Marriage and Inheritance Under Hindu Personal Law in India, (Chowdhury D., Tripathy A. Recognizing the Right of the Third Gender to Marriage and Inheritance under Hindu Personal Law in India. BRICS Law Journal. 2016;3(3):43-60).
• Michael Boucai, Is Assisted Procreation an LGBT Right?, (Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2016, No. 6, 2016).
• Jud Campbell, Republicanism and Natural Rights at the Founding, (32 Constitutional Commentary 85 (2017)).
• Mohamed A. Arafa & Ahmed El-Ashry, Gender Equality in the Arab and Muslim World: Whither Post-Revolutionary Egypt?, (Gender Equality in a Global Perspective (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies, Chapter 3, London & New York, 2017)).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Justice Barbara A. Jackson, Called to Duty: Justice William J. Gaston, 94 North Carolina Law Review 2051-2096 (2016).
• Gregory A. Mark, Hobby Lobby and Corporate Personhood: Taking the U.S. Supreme Court's Reasoning at Face Value, 65 DePaul Law Review 535-558 (2016).
• Sukhsimranjit Singh, Religious Arbitration and Its Struggles with American Law & Judicial Review, 16 Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal 360-406 (2016).
• Dr. Isha Ann Emhoff, Ellen Fugate & Nir Eyal, Is There a Moral Right to Nonmedical Vaccine Exemption?, 42 American Journal of Law & Medicine 598-620 (2016).
• Lidiya Mishchenko, In Defense of Churches: Can the IRS Limit Tax Abuse by “Church” Impostors?, 84 George Washington Law Review 1361 (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Arolda Elbasani, Governing Islam in Plural Societies: Religious Freedom, State Neutrality and Traditional Heritage, (Journal of Balkan and Near Easter Studies 19 (1): 4-18, 2017).
• Perry Dane, Call and Response: A D’Var Torah on Parshat Vayechi, (January 14, 2017).
• Mitchell Landrigan, Could the Implied Freedom of Political Discourse Protect the Speech of a Delisted Anglican Minister?, (January 13, 2017).
• Charles Cohen, Losing Your Children: The Failure to Extend Civil Rights Protections to Transgender Parents, (George Washington Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, 2017).
• Jessica A. Clarke, Frontiers of Sex Discrimination Law, (Michigan Law Review, Vol. 115, No. 6, Forthcoming).
• Victor Asal & Udi Sommer, Legal Path Dependence and the Long Arm of the Religious State (Excerpts), ("Legal Path Dependence & The Long Arm of the Religious State: Sodomy Provisions and Gay Rights Across Nations and Over Time", SUNY Press (October 20, 2016)).
• Johanna Pesendorfer & Othmar Manfred Lehner, Islamic Banking and Finance As an Ethical Alternative: A Systematic Literature Review, (ACRN Oxford Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives 5.2 (2016): 42-64).

From SmartCILP:

• Chad DeVeaux, The Monster Unleashed: How Hobby Lobby Threatens the Freedom of Employees to Practice Religion, 1 Concordia Law Review 114-132 (2016).
• Terence E. Hogan, Gaudium et Spes: Reflections on Dialogue with Cuba, 11 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 249-260 (2016).
• Ayelet Hoffmann Libson, "The Heart Knows its Own Bitterness": Authority, Self, and the Origins of Patient Autonomy in Early Jewish Law, 56 American Journal of Legal Hist. 303-325 (2016).
• Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson, Laudato Si's Challenge to Social Conscience: Society and Nature Together, 11 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 1-13 (2016).