Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Varun Srinivasan, Need for a United or Unified Code? Understanding the Implications of the Uniform Civil Code, ((2016) 2 Madras Law Journal 13).
• Jeremy K. Kessler, The Early Years of First Amendment Lochnerism, (Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Michael J. T. McMillen, Critical Factors for Stimulating Private Sector Sukuk Markets, (Institutional Investor, Forthcoming).
• Craig Forcese & Kent Roach, Criminalizing Terrorist Babble: Canada's Dubious New Terrorist Speech Crime, (Alberta Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2015).
• Andrew J. Pecoraro, Testing the Limits of Obergefell: Incest Statutes and the Fundamental Right to Marry, (William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 58, 2017).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Bill Piatt, If the Pope Is Infallible, Why Does He Need Lawyers?,[PDF download], 43 Capital University Law Review 555-584 (2015).
• Kristina Benson, The Freedom To Believe and the Freedom To Practice: Title VII, Muslim Women, and Hijab, 13 UCLA Journal of Islamic & Near Eastern Law 1-19 (2014).
• Mara R. Revkin, Triadic Legal Pluralism in North Sinai: A Case Study of State, Shari'a, and 'Urf Courts in Conflict and Cooperation. 13 UCLA Journal of Islamic & Near Eastern Law 21-59 (2014).
• Ahmed Al-Dawoody, Al-Sarakhsī’s Contribution to the Islamic Law of War, 14 UCLA Journal of Islamic & Near Eastern Law 29-44 (2015).
• Rami Koujah, A Critical Review Essay of Anver M. Emon’s Islamic Natural Law Theories, 14 UCLA Journal of Islamic & Near Eastern Law 1-28 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Paul Horwitz, Against Martyrdom: A Liberal Argument for Accommodation of Religion, (Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 4, 2016).
• Tim S. Braimah, Divorcing Sexual Orientation from Religion and Politics: Utilizing the Convention Grounds of Religion and Political Opinion in Same-Sex Oriented Asylum Claims, (International Journal of Refugee Law, 2015).
• John D. Blum, Restoring the Parameters of Public Health in a Time of Hobby Lobby and Ebola: The Case for a Wellness Account, (2 Belmont Law Review 119 (2015)).
• John Fahner, Free Conscience in Decline: The Insignificance of the Free Exercise Clause and the Role of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in the Wake of Hobby Lobby, (2 Belmont Law Review 185 (2015)).
• M. Cathleen Kaveny, Law, Religion, and Conscience in a Pluralistic Society: The Case of the Little Sisters of the Poor, (Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 394, March 2016).
• Vincy Fon, A Talmudic Bankruptcy Solution: The CCC Principle, (March 21, 2016).

From elsewhere:

• Justice, The Legal Magazine of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, No. 57, Winter 2015-2016.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Avishalom Westreich, An International Perspective on Same-Sex Marriage Post Obergefell (and Some Thoughts on Legal Positivism as a Means of Reconciliation): The Israeli Case, (Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law, Forthcoming).
• Sahar F. Aziz, Security and Technology: Rethinking National Security, (2 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 791 (2015)).
• Pok Yin Stephenson Chow, Has Intersectionality Reached its Limits? Intersectionality in the UN Human Rights Treaty-Body Practice and the Issue of Ambivalence, (Human Rights Law Review, 2016 (Forthcoming)).
• Candace B. Ford, Marriage, Religion, and the Art of Judging in Post-Obergefell Louisiana, (43 S.U. L. REV. ___ (2016)).
• Casey E. Faucon, Polygamy after Windsor: What's Religion Got to Do with It?, (Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 9, p. 471, 2015).
• Ruth Colker, Freedom to Choose to Marry, (Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2016).
• Uladzislau Belavusau & Dimitry Kochenov, On the 'Entry Options' for the 'Right to Love' : Federalizing Legal Opportunities for LGBT Movements in the EU, (EUI Department of Law Research Paper No. 2016/09 (2016)).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Yusuf Sani Abubakar, Anowar Zahid & Ruzian Markom, Insurable Interest Under Life Insurance And Family Takaful, (Shariah Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2 (2015) 343-364).
• Anowar Zahid, et. al., Qarinah: Admissibility of Circumstantial Evidence in Hudud and Qisas Cases, (Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 2, March 2015).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Frederick Mark Gedicks, The Religious-Question Doctrine: Free-Exercise Right or Anti-Establishment Immunity?, (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2016/10, March 2016).
• Nathan B. Oman, Doux Commerce, Religion, and The Limits of Antidiscrimination Law, (Indiana Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Shannon Gilreath & Arley Ward, Same-Sex Marriage, Religious Accommodation, and the Race Analogy, (Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper March 2016).
• Stuart Chinn, Finding Common Ground Across Race and Religion: Judicial Conceptions of Political Community in Public Schools, (Utah Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Richard Moon, The Accreditation of Trinity Western University's Law Program, (Law Matters (CBA - Alberta), Summer 2015).
• Jeremiah A. Ho, Once We're Done Honeymooning: Obergefell v. Hodges, Incrementalism, and Advances for Sexual Orientation Anti-Discrimination, (Kentucky Law Journal, Vol. 104, 2016).
• Anshul Kumar Pandey & Nilotpal Bansal, Mutilating the Past -- The Islamic State and the Last Song of History, (Februrary 19, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Henry L.Chambers, Jr., Telescoping and Collectivizing Religious Free Exercise Rights, 75 Maryland Law Review 392-414 (2015).
• John W. Compton, Evangelical Reform and the Paradoxical Origins of the Right to Privacy, 75 Maryland Law Review 362-382 (2015).
• Hon. Kermit V. Lipez, George Washington, Elena Kagan, and the Town of Greece, New York: The First Amendment and Religious Minorities, [Abstract], 16 Journal of Appellate Practice and Process 1-14 (2015).
• Loren F. Selznick, Running Mom and Pop Businesses By the Good Book: The Scope of Religious Rights of Business Owners, 78 Albany Law Review 1353-1392 (2014/2015).
• Symposium: Victoria Saker Woeste's Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech. Introduction by Donna C. Schuele; essays by Aviam Soifer, Carroll Seron, Clyde Spillenger and Victoria Saker Woeste. 40 Law & Social Inquiry 1032-1079 (2015).

Recent Books:

• Daniel O. Conkle. Religion, Law, and the Constitution (Concepts and Insights Series), (Foundation Press, March 2016).
• Shanruo Ning Zhang, Confucianism in Contemporary Chinese Politics: An Actionable Account of Authoritarian Political Culture, (Lexington Books, March 2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Robin Fretwell Wilson, 'Getting the Government Out of Marriage' Post Obergefell: The Ill-Considered Consequences of Transforming the State’s Relationship to Marriage, (University of Illinois College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-14, March 2016).
• Lauren Sudeall Lucas, The Free Exercise of Religious Identity, (UCLA Law Review, Vol. 64, No. 1, 2017 Forthcoming).
• Marc O. DeGirolami, On Expressivism and Retributivism in 'The Mighty and the Almighty', (Journal of Analytic Theology (Forthcoming)).
• Caroline Mala Corbin, The Contraception Mandate Accommodated: Why the RFRA Claim in Zubik v. Burwell Fails, (American Constitution Society Issue Brief, March 2016).
• Briton Jacob Myer, In Pursuit of Religious Freedom: The RFRA and How It Applies to Non-Profit Organizations and Their Objections to the Accommodation of the Affordable Care Act Contraceptive Mandate, (November 23, 2015).
• Peter Nicolas, Backdating Marriage, (California Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Khaled A. Beydoun, Electing Islamophobia, (March 6, 2016).
• Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, Fragmented Oversight of Nonprofits in the United States: Does it Work? Can it Work?, (Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 3, 2016).

From SSRN (Non-U.S Law):

• Christa Rautenbach, The South African Constitutional Court's Use of Foreign Precedent in Matters of Religion: Without Fear or Favour?, (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 18, No. 5, 2015).
• Melissa Crouch, Constitutionalism, Islam and the Practice of Religious Deference: The Case of the Indonesian Constitutional Court, (Australian Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 16, No. 2, Article 6, 2016).
• Nadirsyah Hosen, The Constitutional Court and ‘Islamic’ Judges in Indonesia, (Australian Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 16, No. 2, Article 4, 2016).
• Faridah Jalil, Searching for the Benchmark in the Administration of Islamic Criminal Law: Malaysia Experience, (May 30, 2015).
• Faridah Jalil, Challenges and Prospects on Access to Justice in Malaysia, (November 11, 2015).
• Emilia Justyna Powell & Stephen D. McDowell, Islamic Sovereignty Norms and Peaceful Settlement of Territorial Disputes, (iCourts Working Paper Series No. 47, March 2016).
• Amir Attaran, Commentary: The Limits of Conscientious and Religious Objection to Physician-Assisted Dying after the Supreme Court's Decision in Carter v. Canada, (Health Law in Canada 36(3):86-98, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Alan M. Hurst, The Very Old New Separationism, 2015 Brigham Young University Law Review 1-61.
• Mary McDonough, Catholic Health Care and the Affordable Care Act: A Matter of Social Justice, [Abstract], 10 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 69-116 (2015).
• Wolfgang P, Muller, The Internal Forum of the Later Middle Ages. A Modern Myth?, 33 Law & History Review 887-913 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Elisabeth Fontugne, Respecting Religion: How Court and Congress Impermissibly Treaded on Sacred Ground to the People's Detriment, (December 15, 2015).
• Jared A. Goldstein, How the Constitution Became Christian, Roger Williams Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 167 (Feb. 2016).
• Daniel L. Chen & Jo Thori Lind, The Political Economy of Beliefs: Why Fiscal and Social Conservatives/Liberals Come Hand-in-Hand, (March 1, 2016).
• Aileen M. Marty, Elana Marty-Nelson & Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod, The Intersection of Law, Religion, and Infectious Disease on the Handling and Disposition of Human Remains, (Law, Religion, and Health in the United States (Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen & Elizabeth Sepper eds., Cambridge University Press, Spring 2017 Forthcoming).
• Sherif Girgis, Nervous Victors, Illiberal Measures: A Response to Douglas Nejaime and Reva Siegel, (Yale Law Journal Forum, 2016).
• Brian McCall, Why it is Good to Stop at a Red Light: The Basis of Authority and Obligation, (Journal of Catholic Legal Studies, Forthcoming).
• Scott W. Gaylord, RFRA Rights Revisited: Substantial Burdens, Judicial Competence, and the Religious Nonprofit Cases, (Elon University Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-07 (2016)).
• Travis S. Andrews, Delegating Religious Liberty: The Executive's Role in Accommodating Religion, (February 1, 2016).

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

• Neil Weinstock Netanel, Introduction to: From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print, (Oxford University Press 2016).
• Asim Jusic, SAS v. France and the French Burkha Ban: Public Moral Order of Laïcité and the Struggle Against Disloyal Groups, (February 24, 2016).
• Gautam Bhatia, A Right to Faith: Individual, Community, State and Religious Freedom Under the Indian Constitution, (February 28, 2016).
• Mary Anne Case, The Role of the Popes in the Invention of Complementarity and the Vatican's Anathematization of Gender, (Forthcoming Religion and Gender Habemus Gender Special Issue 2016).
• Naveed Ahmad, Hurmat Sumaiya Binti Bashir & Yousfi Karima, Status of Women in Islam: A Perspective, (“Status of Women in Islam: A Perspective” Global Islamic Economics Magazine, Volume 43, 2015).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Andre P. Audette & Christopher L. Weaver, Faith in the Court: Religious Out-Groups and the Perceived Legitimacy of Judicial Decisions, [Abstract], 49 Law & Society Review 999-1022 (2015).
• Callum Brown, Thomas Green & Jane Mair, Religion in Scots Law: Report of an Audit at the University of Glasgow, (Feb. 2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Kif Augustine-Adams, Religious Exemptions to Title IX, (February 19, 2016).
• Matthew W. Bourda, Turning the Water to Blood: How Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Drove the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act Out of Touch with Society, (41 T. Marshall L. Rev. Online 160 (2016)).
• Levi Cooper, Legislation for Education: The Munkács Regulations Enacted by Rabbi Tsevi Elimelekh of Dynów, (Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 30 (2017), Forthcoming).
• Shaun Alberto de Freitas, Religious Associational Rights and Sexual Conduct in South Africa: Towards the Furtherance of the Accommodation of a Diversity of Beliefs, (February 20, 2016).
• Asim Jusic, From Formal Equality to Positive Neutrality to Positive Inferiority (for Some): The European Court of Human Rights’ Limited Influence on Constitutional Changes and Religion in Hungary, (Vienna Journal of International Constitutional Law, Vol. 10, 2016).
• Mohamed A. Arafa, Insights on Divine (Islamic) Law: Islamophobia versus Terrorism, Death Penalty, and Transitional Justice, (CALUMET: Intercultural Law & Humanities Review (Online) 2016).
• Kristine S, Knaplund, Becoming Charitable: Predicting and Encouraging Charitable Bequests in Wills, (77 U. Pitt. L. Rev. (Fall 2015).

From SSRN (Marriage):

• Robin Bradley Kar, Against Marriage Essentialism: A Legal Grounding for Obergefell and Same-Sex Marriage, (University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Gregg Strauss, The Positive Right to Marry, (February 24, 2016).
• Kaiponanea T. Matsumura, A Right Not to Marry, (Fordham Law Review, Vol. 84, 2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• George Mader, Binding Authority: Unamendability in the United States Constitution — A Textual and Historical Analysis, (Marquette Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Nathan S. Chapman, The Establishment Clause, State Action, and Town of Greece, (William & Mary Bill of Rights, Vol. 24, 2015).
• Adam Lamparello, Contextualizing the Free Exercise of Religion, (February 16, 2016).
• Harry G. Hutchison, Hobby Lobby, Corporate Law, and Unsustainable Liberalism: A Reply to Judge Strine, (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 39, 2016).
• Leo E. Strine, Criminal Justice and (a) Catholic Conscience, (Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 56, 2016, Forthcoming).
• Michael W. McConnell & Luke W. Goodrich, On Resolving Church Property Disputes, (Arizona Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Annalee Hickman Moser, We Believe in Being Honest: Dependency Exemptions for LDS Missionaries, (December 1, 2015).
• Twana A. Hassan, A Historical Analysis of the Development of Free Speech Justifications, (The Journal Jurisprudence, Vol. 28 (2015), 487-506).

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

• Omar Salah & Christa Rautenbach, Islamic Finance: A Corollary to Legal Pluralism or Legal Diversity in South Africa and the Netherlands?, (Comparative and International Law of Southern Africa, Forthcoming).
• David M. Tanovich, J(TR): Time to Remove Religion From the Oath, ((2014) 6 Criminal Reports (7th) 211-214)).
• Shalu Nigam, The Privileges of Being a Hindu, Upper Caste and Elite Class, Male in India, (February 10, 2016).
• Francesco Duranti, The Constitutional Reform on State-Church Relationships, (Two Centuries of Norwegian Constitution: Between Tradition and Innovation - Edited by Giuseppe Franco Ferrari - Eleven International Publishing, 2015).
• Sean T. Murphy, Submission to the Special Joint Committee on Physician Assisted Dying, (January 31, 2016).
• Irene Merker Rosenberg & Yale L. Rosenberg, Comparative American and Talmudic Criminal Law, (2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Monica Garcia-Salmones Rovira, Faith, Ritual and Rebellion in 21st Century (Positivist) International Law. (Reviewing Jorge Kammerhofer, Uncertainty in International Law: A Kelsenian Perspective; Jean d'Aspremont, Formalism and the Sources of International Law: A Theory of the Ascertainment of Legal Rules; International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World, edited by Jorge Kammerhofer and Jean d'Aspremont) 26 European Journal of International Law 537-555 (2015).
• Mark Strasser, Definitions, Religion, and Free Exercise Guarantees, 51 Tulsa Law Review 1-38 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Adriaan Lanni & Victor Bers, Disqualified Olympians: The Skeptical Greek View of Divine Judges, (Mermerlstein & Holtz, eds., The Divine Courtroom in Comparative Perspective (Brill 2014)).
• Michael A. Helfand, Identifying Substantial Burdens, (University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2016).
• Louis-Léon Christians, Ideologically Oriented Enterprises Faced with the Reconfiguration of Ethics and Spiritual Management, (BYU Law Review, Volume 2014, Issue 3, August 2015).
• Rene Provost, Centaur Jurisprudence: Culture Before the Law, (René Provost ed., Culture in the Domains of Law (Cambridge University Press), Forthcoming).

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

• Amnon Lehavi, Residential Communities in a Heterogeneous Society: The Case of Israel, (in: Private Communities and Urban Governance: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, A. Lehavi (Ed.), New York: Springer (2016, Forthcoming)).
• Khaled A. Beydoun, Beyond the Paris Attacks: Unveiling the War within French Counterterror Policy, (American University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Maria Elizabeth Marais & Loot J. Pretorius, A Contextual Analysis of the Hate Speech Provisions of the Equality Act, (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2015).

From SSRN (Same-Sex Marriage):

• Robin Fretwell Wilson, Bargaining for Civil Rights: Lessons from Mrs. Murphy for Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights, (Boston University Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 3, 2015).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson, Bargaining for Religious Accommodations: Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights After Hobby Lobby, (The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty (Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flanders, Zoë Robinson, eds., Oxford University Press, 2016)).
• Stephen Matthew Feldman, (Same) Sex, Lies, and Democracy: Tradition, Religion, and Substantive Due Process (With an Emphasis on Obergefell v. Hodges), (24 William & Mary Bill of Rights 341 (2015)).
• Yuvraj Joshi, The Respectable Dignity of Obergefell v. Hodges, (California Law Review Circuit, Vol. 6, 2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• John D. Moore, The First Amendment Case for Corporate Religious Rights, (16 Nev. L.J. 1 (2015)).
• Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flanders & Zoe Robinson, The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty, (Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 14 (Feb. 2016)).
• Howard Kislowicz, Developments in Religious Freedom: What Saguenay and Loyola Tell Us -- and Don't -- About the Trinity Western University Law School Cases, ((2016) 72 S.C.L.R. (2d) 75-95).
• Mark Hill QC, Reasonable Accommodation: Faith and Judgment, (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2016/07, Feb. 2016).
• Ronan McCrea, Rights, Recourse to the Courts and the Relationship between Religion, Law and State in Europe and the United States, (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2016/09, Feb. 2016).
• Jonathan Backer, Thou Shalt Not Electioneer: Religious Nonprofit Political Activity and the Threat 'God PACs' Pose to Democracy and Religion, (114 Mich. L. Rev. 619 (2016)).
• Chad Flanders, Insubstantial Burdens, (June 2015).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Sardar M. A. Waqar Khan Arif, The Legal System of Sultans of Delhi: An Overview, (January 28, 2016).
• Sardar M. A. Waqar Khan Arif, Contractual Stipulations in Muslim Marriage Contract with Reference to Classic Islamic Law and the Case Study of USA,(January 27, 2016).

From SSRN (Same-sex marriage):

• Rodgrick Hickman, Will Love Win Again: When Religious Organizations, Government Subsidies, Adoption and the Establishment Clause Collide?,(February 4, 2016).
• Barbara J. Cox, From One Town's 'Alternative Families' Ordinance to Marriage Equality Nationwide, (California Western Law Review, Vol. 52, 2015).
• Charles E. Colman, About Ned, (129 Harv. L. Rev. F. 128 (2016)).

From SmartCILP:

• Eric Rassbach, Are Houses of Worship "House[s]" Under the Third Amendment?, [Abstract], 82 Tennessee Law Review 611-626 (2015).
• Elizabeth Sepper, Free Exercise Lochnerism, 115 Columbia Law Review 1453-1519 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Imen Gallala-Arndt, The Impact of Religion in Interreligious Custody Disputes: Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian Approaches, (American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 829-858, 2015).
• Barbara P. Billauer, The First Amendment, Moral Law and Abortion: The Conflict between Fetal Rights & Freedom of Religion, (January 22, 2016).
• Ross Campbell, Hobby Lobby as a Land Use Case: Charting For-Profit RLUIPA Claims, (NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2016).
• William P. Kratzke, The Biblical Fool and the Brander: The Law and Economics of Propertization in American Trademark Law, (Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, 2016).
• Blair A. Major, Religion and Law in R v. NS: Finding Space to Re-Think the Balancing Analysis, (Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2015).
• Anita Bernstein, Common Law Fundamentals of the Right to Abortion, (Buffalo Law Review Vol. 63, No. 1141 (2015)).
• Eric Heinze, Towards a Legal Concept of Hatred: Democracy, Ontology, and the Limits of Deconstruction, (Hate, Politics and Law (T. Brudholm & B. Johanssen, eds., Oxford University Press, 2016, Forthcoming)).
• Stuart Roth, The Politics of Turkey During the Holocaust, (1 J. Oxford Ctr. For Study of L. & Pub. Pol'y 87 (2015)).
• John George Archer, This SOX: Combating Public Charity Fraud with Sarbanes-Oxley, (January 20, 2016). 

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Mohamed A. Arafa & Jonathan G. Burns, Judicial Corporal Punishment in the United States? Lessons from Islamic Criminal Law for Curing the Ills of Mass Incarceration, (25 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 3, 2015).
• Nadjma Yassari, Adding by Choice: Adoption and Functional Equivalents in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, (American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 927-962, 2015).
• Lena-Maria Möller, An Enduring Relic: Family Law Reform and the Inflexibility of Wilāya, (American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 893-925, 2015).
• Nadjma Yassari, Lena-Maria Möller & Imen Gallala-Arndt, Introduction – Negotiating Parenthood in Muslim Countries: Changing Concepts and Perceptions, (American Journal of Comparative Law (AJCL), Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 819-827, 2015).
• Yusuf Roque Santos Morales, Maslaha as a Guide and Basis for Governance of Society, ("3rd Bitiala sa Maguindanao" Series (conversations in Maguindanao) January 11, 2016).
• Muhammad Hasbi Zaenal & Abdul Ghafar Ismail, Slavery - A Mere 'Commodity' or a Human Dignity: Classical View and Solution, (January 13, 2016).
• Zahid Siddique, Liberal Development Strategies: An Islamic Perspective, (January 27, 2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN (U.S. Law):

• Perry Dane, Master Metaphors and Double-Coding in the Encounters of Religion and State, (San Diego Law Review, Vol. 52, 2015).
• Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh & Lotem Perry-Hazan, Teacher Diversity and the Right to Adaptable Education in the Religiously-Oriented School: What Can We Learn from Students’ Perceptions?,  ((January 17, 2016). Youth & Society, doi:10.1177/0044118X15621224).
• Elizabeth Rose Schlitz, Rulemaking Under Dodd-Frank: Putting the 'Person' Back Into the Consumer Lending Process, (8 University of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy 117 (2016)).
• Sahar F. Aziz, Coercing Assimilation: The Case of Muslim Women of Color, (Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2015).

From SSRN (Marriage and Family):

• Elizabeth Rose Schlitz, Motherhood: Benefit or Burden to Business, (International Study Seminar on “Women and Work”, Pontifical Council for the Laity, Rome, Italy (2015)).
• Jayashree P. Khandare, Live-in-Relationships -- Are They Menace to the Institution of Marriage, (2015 AIR Jour /9(2) (8 pp.) VII).
• Jayashree P. Khandare, The Concept of Marriage and its Form: An Indian and Western Perspective, (International Journal of Scientific Research, Volume : 4 | Issue : 12 | December 2015).

From SSRN (Canada):

• Dia Dabby, Constitutional (Mis)Adventures: Revisiting Quebec's Proposed Charter of Values, (2015) 71 S.C.L.R. (2d) 353-383.
• Howard Kislowicz, Loyola High School v. Attorney General of Quebec: On Non-Triviality and the Charter Value of Religious Freedom, ((2015) 71 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 331-351).

From SSRN (Europe and the Middle East):

• Sylvie Langlaude Doné, Religious Organisations, Internal Autonomy and Other Religious Rights Before the European Court of Human Rights and the OSCE, (forthcoming in (March 2016) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights).
• Andrea Pin, Introduction to: The Legal Treatment of Muslim Minorities in Italy, (Islam and the Neutral State (Ashgate 2016)).
• Pnina Lahav, The Women of the Wall - A Metaphor for National and Religious Identity, (Israel Studies Review, Volume 30, Issue 2, Winter 2015: 50-70).

From SSRN (Legal History):

• Charles J. Reid, The Jurisprudence of the Forced Share: The High and Late Middle Ages, (Norwegian Academy of Sciences, “Donations: Strategies and Relations in the Latin West/Nordic Countries From the Late Roman Period Until Today” (Routledge, Ole-Albert Ronning, Helle Moller Sighe & Helle Vogt, eds., 2016 Forthcoming).
• Charles J. Reid, The Jurisprudence of the Forced Share in the Ancient World: From Cicero to Justinian?, (Norwegian Academy of Sciences, “Donations: Strategies and Relations in the Latin West/Nordic Countries From the Late Roman Period Until Today” (Routledge, Ole-Albert Ronning, Helle Moller Sighe & Helle Vogt, eds., 2016 Forthcoming).
• Anna Su, Catholic Constitutionalism from the Americanist Controversy to Dignitatis Humanae, (Notre Dame Law Review (2016 Forthcoming)).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Joseph E. David, Incest, (Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2015)).
• Victor C. Romero, The Prodigal Illegal: Christian Love and Immigration Reform, (Denver University Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 917, 2015).
• Douglas NeJaime & Reva Siegel, Conscience Wars in Transnational Perspective: Religious Liberty, Third-Party Harm, and Pluralism, (The Conscience Wars: Rethinking the Balance between Religion, Identity, and Equality (Susanna Mancini & MIchel Rosenfeld eds., Cambridge Univ. Press 2017).
• Joel S. Newman, What is a Church? A Look at Tax Exemptions for the Original Kleptonian Neo-American Church and the First Church of Cannabis, (Lexis Federal Tax Journal Quarterly, December 2015).
• Kadir Nagac, Religiosity and Tax Compliance, (January 14, 2016).
• Spencer Churchill, Justice Kennedy and the Unfolding Doctrine of Corporate Religious Sincerity, (May 21, 2015).
• Felice Batlan, Forging Identities: Jewish Women, Legal Aid, and the Secular Liberal State, 1890-1930, (Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, Forthcoming).

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

• Hassan Poorbafrani & Masoud Zamani, A Comparative Critique of Regulating the Personal and the Personality Principles in the Iranian Penal System, (January 10, 2016).
• Yinka Olomojobi, Gender and Sharia Law in Northern Nigeria, (July 10, 2015).
• Shamshad Pasarlay, Islam and the Sharia in the 1993 Mujahideen — Draft Constitution of the Islamic State of Afghanistan: A Comparative Perspective,(January 11, 2016).

From SmartCILP, Academia and elsewhere:

• Noura Erakat, Whiteness As Property in Israel: Revival, Rehabilitation, and Removal, 31 Harvard Journal of Racial & Ethnic Justice 69-103 (2015).
• Myriam Hunter-Henin, Religion, Children and Employment: The Baby Loup Case, 64 International & Comparative Law Quarterly 717-731 (2015).
• Ali Altaf Mia, Legal Religion: Ethical Norms and Demands of Justice, (Chap. 21 in Jeffrey J. Kripal (ed.), Religion: Sources, Perspectives, and Methodologies (Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, 2016)).
• Dani Kranz, Quasi-Ethnic Capital vs. Quasi-Citizenship Capital: Access to Israeli Citizenship, (Migration Letters, Volume: 13, No: 1, pp. 64– 83, Jan. 2016).
• Bryce Langford, The Minister’s Housing Allowance: Should It Stand, and If Not, Can Its Challengers Show Standing?,  63 Kansas Law Review 1129 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Nelson Tebbe, Religion and Social Coherentism, (Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 363, 2015).
• Julie A. Nice, Conjuring 'Equal Dignity': Mapping the Constitutional Dialogue to and from Same-Sex Marriage, (31 Civil Rights Litigation Handbook 373 (Steven Saltzman ed. 2015)).
• Laura M. Weinrib, Freedom of Conscience in War Time: World War I and the Civil Liberties Path Not Taken, (Emory Law Journal, Vol. 65, No. 4, Forthcoming).
• Simone Chriss & Danaya C. Wright, After Obergefell v. Hodges: The Continuing Battle Over Equal Rights for Sexual Minorities in the United States, (GenIUS, December 2015, at 18).
• Philip T. Hackney, Charitable Organization Oversight: Rules v. Standards, (Pittsburgh Tax Review, Forthcoming).
• Alan D. Viard, The Basic Economics of Pease and PEP, (Tax Notes, Vol. 146, No. 6, 2015).

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

• Shauna Van Praagh, 'Open House' - 'Portes Ouvertes': Classrooms as Sites of Interfaith Interface, (B. Berger and R. Moon, eds., Religion and the Exercise of Public Authority (forthcoming, 2016, Hart Publishing)).
• David Schneiderman, Multiculturalism in Canadian Constitutional Culture: Domesticating Difference, (January 4, 2016).
• Bina D'Costa, 'You Cannot Hold Two Watermelons in One Hand': Gender Justice and Anti-State Local Security Institutions in Pakistan and Afghanistan, (In Hitoshi Nasu and Kim Rubenstein (eds) Legal Perspectives on Security Institutions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2015), pp. 47-72).
• Sean Davidson, Necessary Questions in Free Religion Cases: Application of 'General Applicability' to the French Veil Case, (Charles University in Prague Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2015/III/2).
• András Koltay, Privacy in Public Places – Celebrities, Suicides, Outsiders, Naked Men and Muslim Veils on the Street, (January 6, 2016).
• Maria Gloria Polimeno, The 2014 Egyptian Constitution: Balancing Leadership with Civil Rights (Al-Wataniyya), (Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law. Vol. 3 issue 1 p. 1-67 (2015)).
• Mohammad Fadel, Islamic Law and Constitution-Making: The Authoritarian Temptation and the Arab Spring, (Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 24/2015).

From SmartCILP:

• Journal of Law & Religion, Vol. 30, No. 2 (June 2015) has recently appeared.

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Lincoln L. Davies, Energy, Consumption, and the Amorality of Energy Law, (109 AJIL Unbound 147 (2015)).
• Michal Tamir, The Freedom to Exclude: The Case of the Israeli Society, (Israel Law Review 49(1), 2016, Forthcoming).
• Leonid Sykiainen, Sharia Courts: Modern Practice and Prospectives in Russia, (Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 60/LAW/2015).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• James A. Sonne, Religious Liberty, Clinical Education, and the Art of Building Bridges, 22 Clinical Law Review 251-300 (2015).
• Jennifer Fredette, Becoming a Threat: The Burqa and the Contestation Over Public Morality Law in France, [Abstract], 40 Law & Social Inquiry 585-610 (2015).
• Mark A. Lemley, Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture. Faith-Based Intellectual Property. 62 UCLA Law Review Rev. 1328-1346 (2015).
• McNulty, Patrick J. and Adam D. Zenor, Corporate Free Exercise of Religion and the Interpretation of Congressional Intent: Where Will It End?, 39 Southern Illinois University Law Journal 475-513 (2015).
• Twentieth Annual International Law and Religion Symposium: Varieties of Secularism, Religion, and the Law. Speeches by Francoise Tulkens, Malcolm D. Evans and Mark Hill; articles by Louis-Leon Christians, David Little and Andrea Pin. 2014 BYU Law Review 509-633.
• Kevin C. Walsh, Addressing Three Problems in Commentary on Catholics at the Supreme Court by Reference to Three Decades of Catholic Bishops' Amicus Briefs, 26 Stanford Law & Policy Review 411-35 (2015).
• Aliza Plener Cover, Archetypes of Faith: How Americans See, and Believe in, Their Constitution, 26 Stanford Law & Policy Review 555-96 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• John Witte, 'To Serve Right and to Fight Wrong': Why Religion, Human Rights, and Human Dignity Need Each Other, (Marta Cartabia and Andrea Simoncini, eds., Pope Benedict XVI’s Legal Speeches in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 106-122).
• Alessandro Spina, Reflections on Science, Technology and Risk Regulation in Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’, (European Journal of Risk Regulation 4/2015).
• Piro Rexhepi, Mainstreaming Islamophobia: The Politics of European Enlargement and the Balkan Crime-Terror Nexus, (East European Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2-3, 2015, pp. 189-214).
• Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Expert Religion: The Politics of Religious Difference in an Age of Freedom and Terror, (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2015/97).
• Rachel Nadelman, 'Let Us Care for Everyone's Home': The Catholic Church's Role in Keeping Gold Mining out of El Salvador, (CLALS Working Paper Series No. 9, Dec. 2015).
• Nelson Tebbe & Paul Horwitz, Religious Institutionalism — Why Now?, (Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 429, Dec. 2015).
• D.E. Frydrychowski, A Critique of Blackstone's Praemunire, (December 21, 2015).
• Bernard Jackson, Law and Narrative in the Book of Ruth: A Syntagmatic Reading, (December 20, 2015).
• David M. Shapiro, To Seek a Newer World: Prisoners’ Rights at the Frontier, (Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 15-48 (Dec. 2015)).
• Robert W. Emerson & Jason R. Parnell, Franchise Hostages: Fast Food, God, and Politics, (Journal of Law and Politics, Vol. 29, No. 353, p. 353-396, 2014).
• Martha Bailey, The Marriage Law of Jane Austen's World, (Persuasions On-line, V.36, No.1 (Winter 2015)).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Samuel J. Levine, A Critique of Hobby Lobby and the Supreme Court's Hands-Off Approach to Religion, (Notre Dame L. Rev. Online 26 (2015)).
• Steven Douglas Smith, The Tortuous Course of Religious Freedom, (Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Aliza Cover, Archetypes of Faith: How Americans See, and Believe in, Their Constitution, (Stanford Law & Policy Review, Vol. 26, No. 555, 2015).
• Thomas M. Keck, Hate Speech and Double Standards, (Constitutional Studies 1:1 (Fall 2015)).
• Angela D. Morrison, Misconstruing Notice in EEOC Administrative Processing & Conciliation, (Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 14, p. 785-805, 2014).

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

• Nicola Carr, Paula Devine, Siobhan McAlister & Gail Neill, Public Attitudes Towards LGB Equality, (Access Research Knowledge, No 106, 2015).
• Pietro Faraguna, Regulating Religion in Italy: The Constitution Does (Not) Matter, (December 14, 2015).
• Piotr Godzisz, Forgotten Friends. ODIHR and Civil Society in the Struggle to Counter Hate Crime in Poland, (2015).
• Michael J. T. McMillen, Legal and Regulatory Considerations Pertaining to Islamic Capital Markets, (Islamic Capital Markets, Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim, eds. Forthcoming).
• Tipu Salman Makhdoom, Enigmatic Sex Laws of Pakistan, (December 15, 2015).
• Saadiah Mohamad, et. al., Enhancing Cross Border Connectivity: Venturing into Islamic Finance as a New Source of Infrastructure Financing, (Journal of Emerging Economies and Islamic Research, Vol.3, No.3 (2015)).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Yousef T. Jabareen, The Arab-Palestinian Community in Israel: A Test Case for Collective Rights under International Law, 47 George Washington International Law Review 449-480 (2015).
• Charles J. Russo, Mergens v. Westside Community Schools at Twenty-Five and Christian Legal Society v. Martinez: From Live and Let Live to My Way or the Highway?, 2015 BYU Education and Law Journal 453-480.
• Kristen Stilt, Contextualizing Constitutional Islam: The Malayan Experience, [Abstract], 13 I.Con: International Journal of Constitutional Law 407-433 (2015).
• Fatahillah Abdul Syukur & Dale Margaret Bagshaw, Victim-Offender Mediation with Youth Offenders in Indonesia, [Abstract], 32 Conflict Resolution Quarterly 389-411 (2015).
• Journal of Law & Religion, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2015) has recently appeared.
• Andrea M. Alonso & Kevin G. Faley, Pope’s New Rule on Annulment: Will the Law Keep Up?, New York Law Journal, Dec. 18, 2015.
• SCOTUSblog's Zubik v. Burwell Symposium, (Dec. 2015).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Barry McDonald, Democracy's Religion: Religious Liberty in the Rehnquist Court and into the Roberts Court, (University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Josh Blackman & Howard M. Wasserman, The Process of Marriage Equality, (Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 243-335, 2016 Forthcoming).
• Anthony C. Infanti, Comments on Proposed Treasury Regulations Defining Terms Relating to Marital Status, (December 3, 2015).
• Suzanne B. Goldberg, Obergefell at the Intersection of Civil Rights and Social Movements, (California Law Review Circuit, Vol 6., p. 157, 2015).
• William A. Edmundson, Charlie Hebdo Meets Utility Monster, (The Critique, forthcoming).
• Mirko Daniel Garasic & Shay Keinan, Boycotting Israeli Academia: Is Its Implementation Anti-Semitic?, (International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, Vol. 15, Iss. 3 pp. 189-199, 2015).
• Pamela Foohey, Lender Discrimination, Black Churches, and Bankruptcy,(December 7, 2015).

From SSRN (Issues from Commonwealth countries):

• Justin H. Dabner, Multiculturalism and Legal Plurality in Australia, (December 8, 2015).
• Megan Pearson, Moderation and Equality Law Disputes, (Aug 7, 2014).
• Victor M. Muniz-Fraticelli & Lawrence David, Religious Institutionalism in a Canadian Context, (Osgoode Hall Law Journal (Forthcoming)).
• Christopher Nyinevi & Edmund Amasah, The Separation of Church and State Under Ghana's Fourth Republic, (Journal of Politics and Law; Vol. 8, No. 4; 2015).
• Muhammad Asif Khan & Farooq Muhammad Hayat, Pakistan's Vulnerable Minorities and the Anti-Blasphemy Laws: Is There a Way Out?, (Europa Ethnica, Vol 1, No. 2, 2015, p. 49-54).

From SSRN (Issues in Islamic Law):

• Haroun Rahimi, Applicability of Church Autonomy and Religious Question Doctrines to the Shari’Ah Board in Islamic Financial Institutions, (December 8, 2014).
• Hdeel Abdelhady, Specialized Insolvency Regimes for Islamic Banks: Regulatory Prerogative and Process Design, (The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 5: Fostering Development through Opportunity, Inclusion, and Equity, 2014).
• Tipu Salman Makhdoom, Shufa: A Dead Law Walking, (December 4, 2015).
• Justin H. Dabner, Islamic Finance in Australia: Interest or Not Interest, that is the Question?, (December 8, 2015).

From elsewhere:

• Samuel V. Bruton, Looks‐Based Hiring and Wrongful Discrimination, [Abstract], 120 Business and Society Review 607-35 (Winter 2015).
• The 2015 update of Steven H. Sholk, A Guide To Election Year Activities of Section 501(c)(3) Organizations is now available.

Recent Books:

• Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flanders, and Zoë Robinson (eds.), The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty, (Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2016).
• François-Xavier Licari, Le Droit Talmudiqe, (Dalloz, Nov. 2015).

Recent Articles of Interest and New Bibliography

From SSRN:

• Jens T. Theilen, Towards Acceptance of Religious Pluralism: The Federal Constitutional Court's Second Judgment on Muslim Teachers Wearing Headscarves, (German Yearbook of International Law 58 (2015)).
• Julia Rackow, From Conflict to Cooperation: The Relationship between Karlsruhe and Strasbourg, (in Katja S Ziegler, Elizabeth Wicks and Loveday Hodson (eds), The UK and European Human Rights: A Strained Relationship?, (Hart, 2015) (draft version)).
• Luke Beck, When Is an Office or Public Trust 'Under the Commonwealth' for the Purposes of the Religious Tests Clause of the Australian Constitution?, (Monash University Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 17-39, 2015).
• Haroun Rahimi, The Customary Practice of Gerawee in Afghanistan: A Case for Transitioning to Real Equity-Based Finance, (Indonesian Journal of International & Comparative Law, 2015).

From SmartCILP:

• M. Cherif Bassiouni, Misunderstanding Islam on the Use of Violence, 37 Houston Journal of International Law 643-677 (2015).
• Bonnie Honig, The Laws of the Sabbath (poetry): Arendt, Heine, and the Politics of Debt, 5 University of California Irvine Law Review 463-482 (2015).
• Karen A. Jordan, The Contraceptive Mandate: Compelling Interest or Ideology?, 41 Journal of Legislation 1-64 (2014-15).
• Yehiel S. Kaplan, Immigration Policy of Israel: The Unique Perspective of a Jewish State, 31 Touro Law Review 1089-1135 (2015).
• James A. Sonne, Domestic Applications of Sharia and the Exercise of Ordered Liberty, 45 Seton Hall Law Review 717-759 (2015).
• Gila Stopler, The Right to an Exclusively Religious Education--The Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel in Comparative Perspective, 42 Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law 743-796 (2014).
• Shaheer Tarin, An Analysis of the Influence of Islamic law on Saudi Arabia's Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Practices, [Abstract], 26 American Review of International Arbitration 131-154 (2015).
• Christopher Blain, Employing One's "Talents": The Power of Innovative Bond Transactions to Finance Catholic Nonprofits, 33 Journal of Law  Commerce 207-238 (2015).
• Philip Hamburger, Exclusion and Equality: How Exclusion From the Political Process Renders Religious Liberty Unequal, 90 Notre Dame Law Review 1919-1980 (2015).

Bibliography:

• The 2015 Law and Religion Bibliography, a 35-page bibliography of books, articles and blogs published in 2015, has been distributed as part of the AALS Section on Law and Religion Dec. 2015 Newsletter.

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Prakash Shah, Does Durkheim Enhance Our Understanding of Law and Religion?, (Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 212/2015, Nov. 2015).
• Jeffrey M. Hirsch, EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc.: Mistakes, Same-Sex Marriage, and Unintended Consequences, (Texas Law Review, Vol. 94, 2015, Forthcoming).
• Nicholas Aroney, Faith in Public Office: The Meaning, Persistence and Importance of Oaths, (November 23, 2015).
• Lucia Ann Silecchia, Pope Francis and the Vocation of the Lawyer: Reflections on Service and Responsibility, (54 J. of Cath. Legal Stud. 23 (2015)).
• Lewis A. Grossman, Orthodoxy and 'The Other Man's Doxy': Medical Licensing and Medical Freedom in the Gilded Age, (November 19, 2015).
• Susan Frelich Appleton, The Forgotten Family Law of Eisenstadt v. Baird, (Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, Vol. 28:1, 2016).
• Cynthia Godsoe, Marriage Equality and the 'New' Maternalism, (California Law Review Circuit, Vol. 6, No. 145, 2015).
• Jay P. Greene & Cari A. Bogulski, The Effect of Public and Private Schooling on Anti-Semitism, (EDRE Working Paper No. 2015-10, Nov. 2015).
• Abdul Azeez Maruf Olayemi, et. al., Islamic Interbank Money Market: A Comparative Legal Study between Malaysia And Some Notable Jurisdictions, (2015 1 SHR, SHARIAH REPORT, A Journal of Islamic Law, Banking & Finance, Malaysian Current Law Journal (MCLJ)).
• Eric C. Chaffee, Collaboration Theory: A Theory of the Charitable Tax Exempt Nonprofit Corporation, (November 22, 2015).
• UPDATE: Netta Barak Corren, Does Anti-Discrimination Law Influence Religious Behavior?, (Hastings Law Journal, Forthcoming).

Recent Books:

• William Lazarus (with Sid Kleiner), Passover In Prison, (CreateSpace, July 2015).
• Saba Mahmood, Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, (Princeton Univ. Press, Nov. 2015).
• Katherine Franke, Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality, (NYU Press, Nov. 2015).
• William A. Schabas, The European Convention on Human Rights-- A Commentary, (Oxford Univ. Press, Nov. 2015).