Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Craig B. Mousin, You Were Told to Love the Immigrant, But What if the Story Never Happened? Hospitality and United States Immigration Law, (Vincentian Heritage Journal: Vol. 33: Iss. 1, Article 8).
• Richard Moon, Neutrality and Prayers: Mouvement Laique v Saguenay, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2015, 4, 512–519).
• Stephen M. Bainbridge, The Parable of the Talents, (UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 16-10 (2016)).
• Douglas Laycock & Steven T. Collis, General Applicable Law & the Free Exercise of Religion, (Nebraska Law Review, Vol. 95, 2016).
• Edward Stein, Plural Marriage, Group Marriage and Immutability in Obergefell v. Hodges and Beyond, (University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 3, 2016).
• Mitchell L. Engler & Edward Stein, Not Too Separate or Unequal: Marriage Penalty Relief after Obergefell, (Washington Law Review, Vol. 91, 2016).

From elsewhere:

• Symposium on "Substantial Burden" Under RFRA, University of Illinois Law Review Online (2016).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Courtney Miller, 'Spiritual But Not Religious': Rethinking the Legal Definition of Religion, (Virginia Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 3, 2016).
• Zachary D. Smith, Of Commandments, Crosses, & Prayers: The Roberts Court's Approach to Public Religion, (Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2015, No. 845, 2015).
• Elizabeth Sepper, Contracting Religion, (Law, Religion, and Health in the United States, Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, & Elizabeth Sepper eds., Cambridge Univ., 2017, Forthcoming).
• Kaari E. Hong, From Footnote to Footprint: Obergefell's Call to Reconsider Immigration Law as Family Law, (Forthcoming in Family Law in Britain and America, Brill Publishers, 2016).
• Kari E. Hong, After Obergefell: Finding a Contemporary State Interest in Marriage, (Forthcoming in The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law, Cambridge University Press, 2016).

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

• Surabhi Chopra, Massacres, Majorities and Money: Reparation after Sectarian Violence in India, (Asian Journal of Law and Society, Forthcoming).
• Ketan Modh, Controlling Hate Speech on the Internet: The Indian Perspective, (October 12, 2015).
• Neliana Rodean, Adoption and Same-Sex Couples: New Rights in European Constitutional Space after the Ruling X and Others v. Austria, Direitos Fundamentais & Justica no.29/2014, Oct. 2015).
• Oonagh B. Breen, European Non-Profit Oversight: The Case for Regulating from the Outside In, (Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 3, 2016, Forthcoming).

Recent Articles of Interst

From SSRN:

• Michael James Novotny, Excluding Non-Federally Recognized Tribal Members from Obtaining Eagle Parts Under 50 C.F.R. Section 22.22 Violates Post-Burwell RFRA, (May 16, 2016).
• Amy J. Sepinwall, Burdening Substantial Burdens: Zubik v. Burwell and the Contraceptive Mandate, (University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Enzo Rossi, Understanding Religion, Governing Religion: A Realist Perspective, (C. Laborde & A. Bardon, eds, Religion in Liberal Political Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
• Gwendolyn Gordon, Who Speaks the Culture of the Corporation? Dissent in the Close Corporation after Hobby Lobby and Citizens United, (Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Timothy Zick, Rights Dynamism, (May 19, 2016).
• Alexander Tsesis, Terrorist Speech on Social Media, (Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 70, 2017).

From SmartCILP:

• Charlotte Garden, Religious Employers and Labor Law: Bargaining in Good Faith?, 96 Boston University Law Review 109-160 (2016).
• Debbie N. Kaminer, Religious Accommodation in the Workplace: Why Federal Courts Fail to Provide Meaningful Protection of Religious Employees, [Abstract], 20 Texas Review of Law & Politics 107-156 (2015).
• Timothy J. Tracey, Just Because You Can, Doesn't Mean You Should: Equal Protection, Free Speech, and Religious Worship, 36 Northern Illinois University Law Review 58-110 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Shivaraj S. Huchhanavar, Introduction to Traditional and Modern Natural Law Theories, (May 5, 2016).
• Brett G. Scharffs, Religious Majorities and Restrictions on Religion, (Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Farrah Ahmed, Remedying Personal Law Systems, (International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Forthcoming).
• Brian Leiter, Why Tolerate Religion, Again? A Reply to Michael Mcconnell, (May 8, 2016).
• Kathleen A. McKee, Book Review: An Alternative to Business as Usual: Evangelical Christian Executives: A New Model for Business Corporations, (December 11, 2016).
• Engy Abdelkader, When Islamophobia Turns Violent: The 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections, (The Bridge Initiative, Georgetown University, 2016).
• Nasiru Wada Khalil, Perception and Reaction: The Representation of the Shari’a in Nollywood and Kanywood Films, (May 4, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Stephen R. Munzer, Secularization, Anti-Minority Sentiment, and Cultural Norms in the German Circumcision Controversy, 37 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 503-581 (2015).
• Symposium: Religion and the Law. Articles by Marc O. DeGirolami, Kevin C. Walsh, Benjamin Justice, Joshua A. Decker and Jonathan E. Amgott. 26 Stanford Law & Policy Review 385-553 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Thomas C. Berg, Partly Acculturated Religious Activity: A Case for Accommodating Religious Nonprofits, (Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 91, Forthcoming).
• Robert A. Katz, The Role of Public Reason in Obergefell v. Hodges, (FIU Law Review 117 (2016)).
• Linda H, Edwards, Hearing Voices: Non-Party Stories in Abortion and Gay Rights Advocacy, (2015 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1327).
• Linda Sugin, Rhetoric and Reality in the Tax Law of Charity, (Fordham Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 101, 2016).
• Evelyn Brody, The 21st Century Fight Over Who Sets the Terms of the Charity Property Tax Exemption, (Exempt Organization Tax Review, Vol. 77, No. 4, 2016).

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

• Benjamin Shmueli & Yuval Sinai, Victim Pays Damages to Tortfeasor: The When and Wherefore,  (McGill Law Journal, Vol. 61, No. 2, 2015).
• Benjamin Shmueli, Tax, Don't Ban: A Comparative Look at Harmful But Legitimate Islamic Family Practices Actionable Under Tort Law, (Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2016).
• Victor M. Muniz-Fraticelli & Lawrence David, Religious Institutionalism in a Canadian Context, (Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 43/2016 (2015)).
• Jens T. Theilen, The Long Road to Recognition: Transgender Rights and Transgender Reality in Europe, (Gerhard Schreiber (ed.), Transsexualität in Theologie und Neurowissenschaften. Ergebnisse, Kontroversen, Perspektiven (De Gruyter 2016)).
• Rebecca Christianne Lee, Forced Sterilization and Mandatory Divorce: How A Majority of Council of Europe Member States’ Laws Regarding Gender Identity Violate the Internationally and Regionally Established Human Rights of Trans* People, (Berkeley Journal of International Law 33:1 (2015)).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Caroline Mala Corbin, Speech or Conduct: The Free Speech Claims of Wedding Vendors, (Emory Law Journal, Vol. 65, No. 241, 2016).
• Elizabeth Sepper, Gays in the Moralized Marketplace, (7 Ala. C.R. & C.L. L. Rev. 129 (2015)).
• Mark L. Movsesian, Of Human Dignities, (Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 4, 2016).
• Richard W. Garnett, Wrongful Discrimination? Religious Freedom, Pluralism, and Equality, (Timothy Shah, Thomas Farr & Jack Friedman, eds., Religious Freedom and Gay Rights: Emerging Conflicts in North America and Europe (Oxford University Press 2016)).
• Udo Schuklenk & Ricardo Smalling, Why Medical Professionals Have No Moral Claim to Conscientious Objection Accommodation in Liberal Democracies, (Journal of Medical Ethics 2016 doi:10.1136/medethics-2016-103560).
• Mahalia Jackman, They Called it the ‘Abominable Crime’: An Analysis of Heterosexual Support for Anti-Gay Laws in Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, (Sex Res Soc Policy, Vol. 13:130–141 (2016)).
• Annyssa Bellal, Beyond the Pale? Engaging the Islamic State on International Humanitarian Law, (Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (Forthcoming)).
• Norman P. Ho, Confucian Jurisprudence, Dworkin, and Hard Cases, (Washington University Jurisprudence Review, Vol.10.1, Forthcoming).

From SmartCILP:

• Michael Scaperlanda, Scalia's Short Reply To 125 Years of Plenary Power, 68 Oklahoma Law Review 119-136 (2015).
• Symposium: Christianity and Human Rights. Articles by John Witte, Jr., Justin J. Latterell, Desmond M. Tutu, Nigel Biggar, Stanley Hauerwas, Robert M. Franklin, John Witte, Jr., Jean Porter, Russell Hittinger and Helen M. Alvare, 30 Journal of Law & Religion 353-495 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Thomas M. McDonnell, The Egyptian Coup, the United States, and a Call to Strengthen the Rule of Law and Diplomacy Rather than Military Counter-Terrorism, (October 26, 2015).
• Andrea Pin, The Arab Road to Dignity: The Goal of the 'Arab Spring', (Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Paper Series No. 408, 2016).
• Hooman Movassagh, Human Organ Donations Under the 'Iranian Model': A Rewarding Scheme for U.S. Regulatory Reform?, (Indiana Health Law Review Vol. 13:1 (2016)).
• M.C. Mirow, Rerum Novarum: New Things and Recent Paradigms of Property Law, (47 U. Pac. L. Rev. 183-197 (2016)).
• George W. Dent, Meaningless Marriage, (April 20, 2016).
• SpearIt, Sonic Jihad—Muslim Hip Hop in the Age of Mass Incarceration, (11 Florida Intl. L. Rev. 201 (2015)).
• Mark Cammack, The Punishment of Islamic Sex Crimes in a Modern Legal System: The Islamic Qanun of Aceh, Indonesia, (April 17, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Amy J. Sepinwall, Conscience and Complicity: Assessing Pleas for Religious Exemptions in Hobby Lobby's Wake, 82 University of Chicago Law Review 1897-1980 (2015).

Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:

• Raja Sakrani, Convivencia: Reflections About its 'Kulturbedeutung' and Rereading the Normative Histories of Living Together, (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2016-02 (March 2016)).
• Natasha Bakht, In Your Face: Piercing the Veil of Ignorance About Niqab-Wearing Women, (24(3) Social and Legal Studies 419 (2015)).
• Bruce P. Archibald, Criminal Justice Models: Canadian Experience in European and Islamic Comparative Perspective, (April 11, 2016).
• Glen Staszewski, Obergefell and Democracy, (Boston University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Robert W. McGee, Some Thoughts on Toilets, Transgenders, and the LGBT 'Community', (April 12, 2016).

From SmartCILP:

• Bernard H. Mehlman & Jeremy S. Morrison, The Death with Dignity Ballot Initiative: Narrative Tensions and Jewish Legalities, 15 Nevada Law Journal 1479-1491 (2015).

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)).