Recent Articles, Books, and Podcasts of Interest

From SSRN:

• John Witte, The Richard O'Sullivan: Memorial Lecture A New Great Awakening of Religious Freedom in America, (Law & Justice, 2023).
• Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Coercion by the Orthodox Minority in Israel, (February 16, 2022).
• James Toomey, Introduction—Bioethics After Dobbs, (45 Pace Law Review 1 (2024)).

From elsewhere:

• Special Issue, Reevaluating the Norms of Law and Governance in Islamic Legal History, Journal of Islamic Law, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2024).
• Special Issue, Scholarly Debates: Moving Past Structural Death, Journal of Islamic Law, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2023).

Recent Podcasts:

• America Trends Podcast, Some Red States Putting Religion Back in Schools, (with Prof. Ira Lupu), (Nov. 25, 2024).

Recent Books:

• Daniela Berti & Anthony Good, Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia, (Routledge, Nov. 2024).
• Matteo Corsalini, Business, Religion and the Law-- Church and Business Autonomy in The Secular Economy, (Routledge, Aug. 2024),
• Jelle Creemers & Tatiana Kopaleishvili  Religious Freedom and COVID-19-- A European Perspective, (Routledge, Aug. 2024).
• Mareike Riedel, Law and Jewish Difference: Ambivalent Encounters, (Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2024).
• David Hollenbach, Human Rights in a Divided World, (Georgetown University Press, July 2024).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Ira C. Lupu, The Centennial of Meyer and Pierce: Parents’ Rights, Gender-Affirming Care and Issues in Education, Vol. 24, Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues (Univ. of San Diego) (forthcoming 2024).
• Lama Abu-Odeh, Gaza Shoah, Georgetown University Law Center Research Paper No. 2568 (2024).
• Miranda Perry Fleischer, The Morality of Charitable Bequests, (Inheritance and the Right to Bequeath: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives, ed. by Daniel Halliday, Thomas Gutmann, and Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch, Routledge (2022)).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• Norman Doe & Aetios Nikiforos, Legal Thought and Eastern Orthodox Christianity: The Addresses of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, (Routledge, Nov. 3, 2023).
• Robert Wuthnow, Faith Communities and the Fight For Racial Justice, (Princeton University Press, Nov. 14, 2023).
• Bruce Hoffman & Jacob Ware, God, Guns and Sedition, (Columbia University Press, Jan. 2024).
• Mun'im Sirry, Youth, Education, and Islamic Radicalism: Religious Intolerance in Contemporary Indonesia, (University of Notre Dame Press, March 2024).
• Tom Navon, Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust-- Otto Heller 1897-1945, (SUNY Press, January 2024).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Shelley Ross Saxer, Owning Church Property, (Florida State University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Hershey H. Friedman, The Art of Argumentation: A Jewish Approach, (August 15, 2023).
• Elizabeth Sepper, Free Exercise of Abortion, (Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 49, 2023).
• Marc Spindelman, Trans Sex Equality Rights After Dobbs, (172 U. Pa. L. Rev. Online 1 (2023)).
• Rona Kaufman Kitchen, Privacy: Pre- and Post-Dobbs, (Duquesne University Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 1, 2023).
• Naomi R. Cahn, Mary E. Ziegler & Maxine Eichner, Erosion by Misdirection: The New Uses and Abuses of Parental Rights, (Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2023-62 (2023)).

From SSRN (Islamic Law):

• Nzube Udechukwu, Critical Analysis of the Punishments of Canning and Amputation Under the Penal Code Act and Other Sharia Criminal Legislation Vis-à-vis the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as Amended, (August 15, 2023).
• Nasratullah Nasrat, Rohullah Hamidi, Abdul Rahman Mubashir & Shahidullah Safi, Ways to Reduce Poverty in the Economic System of Islam, (Integrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities, Volume-3 Issue-4, July 2023, pp. 113-120).
• Abdulrasaq Ariwoola, Challenges and Prospects of Cryptocurrency in Islamic Finance in Nigeria, (August 22, 2021).
• Zainuddin, Sahban & Andi Risma, Halal Certification as Sharia Legitimacy for Economic Empowerment of Zakat Mustahiq, (Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization, Vol.127, 2022).

From SmartCILP:

• Michael D. McNally, The Sacred and the Profaned: Protection of Native American Sacred Places That Have Been Desecrated, 111 California Law Review 395-464 (2023).
• Khaled A. Beydoun & Nura A. Sediqe, Unveiling: The Law of Gendered Islamophobia,111 California Law Review 465-527 (2023).
• Patricia McGuire, Title IX and Catholic Colleges' Long March into Modernity, [Abstract], 56 Creighton Law Review 341-358 (2023).
• Pooja R. Dadhania, Gender-Based Religious Persecution, 107 Minnesota Law Review 1563-1619 (2023).
• Thomas John Paprocki, Foreword. The Essential Relationship of the Judeo-Christian Intellectual Tradition to Ethics, Law & Public Policy, 37 Notre Dame Journal of Law Ethics & Public Policy 1-10 (2023).
• John S. Ehrett, Virtue and the Administrative State, [Abstract], 37 Notre Dame Journal of Law Ethics & Public Policy 43-80 (2023).

Recent Books:

• Nathan S. Chapman & Michael W. McConnell, Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience, (Oxford University Press, June 27, 2023). reviewed in the Wall Street Journal.
• Paul L. Heck, Political Theology and Islam From the Birth of Empire to the Modern State, (Notre Dame University Press, November 2023).
• Thomas C. Berg, Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age, (W.D. Eerdmans Publishing Co., (July 11, 2023). Reviewed in a University of St. Thomas press release.

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

 From SSRN:

• Andrew M. Koppelman, The Emerging First Amendment Right to Mistreat Students, (Case Western Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Ana Maria Celis Brunet & Jorge Barrera-Rojas, Erosion of Religious Freedom in Latin America: Extreme Secularism and Deinstitutionalization as a Path to a Future Religious Persecution, (Notre Dame Law Review Reflection 2022).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Anna Rodriguez, Culture War Politics & the Rise of Religious Exemptions against Reproductive Health Access: Pitting Patients against Religious Freedom Is a Losing Game, 25 Journal of Gender Race & Justice 1-44 (2022).
• Jeremy Schwartz & Jessica Priest, Churches are breaking the law and endorsing in elections, experts say. The IRS looks the other way, (Texas Tribune- Pro Publica Investigative Unit, Oct. 30, 2022).

Recent and Forthcoming Books of Interest:

• Andrew I. Port, Never Again-- Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust, (Harvard University Press, May 2023).
• Robert Hutchinson, After Nuremberg-- American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals, (Yale University Press, Oct. 2022).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

 From SSRN:

• Linda C. McClain & James Fleming,  Civic Education in Circumstances of Constitutional Rot and Strong Polarization, (Boston University Law Review, Vol. 101, No. 1771, 2021).
• Judith Geldenhuys & Michelle Kelly-Louw, Demystifying Hate Speech under the PEPUDA, (PER / PELJ 2020(23)).
• Charles W. (Rocky) Rhodes & Howard Wasserman, Solving the Procedural Puzzles of Texas’ Fetal-Heartbeat Law and its Imitators: The Potential for Defensive Litigation, (SMU Law Review, (forthcoming 2022)).
• Howard Wasserman & Charles W. (Rocky) Rhodes, Solving the Procedural Puzzles of Texas’ Fetal-Heartbeat Law and its Imitators: The Limits and Opportunities for Offensive Litigation, (American University Law Review, Vol. 71, 2022).
• Abdul Muqaddas Opeyemi Ishaaq El-Mubarak, Zakariya Mustapha & Isyaku Hassan, Regulation Not Mere Legislation: The Issue of Enhancing Islamic Banking Performance Across Nigeria, (International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences 2021).

Recent Books of Interest:

• Spencer W. McBride, Joseph Smith for President-- The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom, (Oxford Univ. Press, May 2021).
• Michael Graziano, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors-- Religion and the History of the CIA, (University of Chicago Press, June 2021).
• Greg Bourke, Gay, Catholic, and American-- My Legal Battle for Marriage Equality and Inclusion, (Notre Dame Univ. Press, Sept. 2021).
• Alvin H. Rosenfeld (ed.), Contending with Antisemitism in a Rapidly Changing Political Climate,(Indiana Univ. Press, Nov. 2021).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

 From SSRN:

• Daniel Peterson, The Majelis Ulama Indonesia and its Role in the Ahok Conviction, (Australian Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 21, No. 1, Article 6, 2020).
• Steven K. Green, No Aid, No Agency, (William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Forthcoming).
• Steven K. Green, The 'Irrelevance' of Church-State Separation in the Twenty-First Century, (Syracuse Law Review, Vol. 69, 2019).
• Steven K. Green The Legal Ramifications of Christian Nationalism, (Roger Williams University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Christopher R. Green, What Has Athens to Do With Philadelphia,(September 30, 2020).
• Gary J. Simson, The Uncertain Good of Overruling Employment Division v. Smith, (Emory University Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law and Religion, 2020).
• Jennifer Levi & Kevin M. Barry, Transgender Tropes & Constitutional Review, (Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 37, p. 589, 2019).
• Ferry Muhammadsyah Siregar & Oman Fathurohman, Religious Leader, Tafsir, and Salafism in Indonesia: The Role of Religious Leader in the Study of Tafsir in Pesantren Salafi in Java, (September 18, 2020).

From SmartCILP:

• Nancy J. Whitmore, Extending the Roberts Court's Affirmation of Individual Expressive Rights to the First Amendment Claim in Masterpiece Cakeshop, [Abstract], 12 Elon Law Review 105-136 (2020).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• Robert F. Cochran, Jr. & Michael P. Moreland, Christianity and Private Law, (Routledge, Nov. 22, 2020) (Reviewed at Canopy Forum).
• Jack N. Rakove, Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience-- The Radical Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion, (Oxford University Press, Aug. 3, 2020).
• Dvora Hacohen, To Repair a Broken World-- The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah, (Harvard University Press, May 11, 2021).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Nicholas Aroney, The Rise and Fall of Human Dignity (July 27, 2020).
• David Orentlicher, Cruzan and Surrogate Decision-Making, (SMU Law Review, Vol. 73, No. 1, 2020, pages 155-162).
• Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, Charitable Crowdfunding,(September 4, 2020). Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 200904 (Sept. 2020).
• Paul B. Miller, The Morality of Fiduciary Law, (62 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. (2021 Forthcoming)).

From SmartCILP:

• Dallan F. Flake, Interactive Religious Accommodations, 71 Alabama Law Review 67-114 (2019).
• Robin Fretwell Wilson, Common Ground Lawmaking: Lessons for Peaceful Coexistence from Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Utah Compromise, 51 Connecticut Law Review 483-574 (2019).
• Kermit V. Lipez, Reflections on the Church/State Puzzle, [Abstract], 20 Journal of Appellate Practice & Process 7-60 (2019).

Recent Books:

• Joel Harrison, Post-Liberal Religious Liberty: Forming Communities of Charity, (Cambridge University Press, July 2020).
• John Corrigan, Religious Intolerance, America, and the World: A History of Forgetting and Remembering, (University of Chicago Press, April 2020).
• David Nash, Acts Against God: A Short History of Blasphemy, (University of Chicago Press, July 2020).
• Jeremy Patrick, Faith or Fraud: Fortune-Telling, Spirituality and the Law, (University of British Columbia Press, Sept. 2020).
• Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Church State Corporation: Construing Religion In US Law, (University of Chicago Press, July 2020).
• Tony Keddie, Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels, (University of California Press, Oct. 2020).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

 From SSRN:

• Sephen A. Rosenbaum, Invisibility, Inclusivity & Fraternity: [Book Review Essay] 'Was Yosef on the Spectrum? Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash and Classical Jewish Sources' , by Samuel J. Levine, Urim Publications (2019), (36 Touro Law Review 215 (2020)).
• Aabid Majeed Sheikh & Sayed Hanan Yusofi, Religion in International Relations Theory, (Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education 16, February 2019).
• John H. Shannon & Richard J. Hunter, Jr, The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Beyond Race to Employment Discrimination Based on Sex: The 'Three Letter Word' That Has Continued to Vex Society and The United States Supreme Court, (Journal of Social and Political Sciences, Vol.3 No.3 (2020)).
• Jared Ham, Getting Away with Marginalization: Rejecting a Formalistic Standing Analysis and Remedying LGBTQ+ Discrimination Through Congressional Legislation, (Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2019).
• Tal Mimran, In A Broken Dream: Lessons from The Rise and Demise of the Self-Declared Caliphate of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, (Journal of Transnational Law & Policy, Vol. 29, 2019-2020).
• Aabid Majeed Sheikh, Maulana Maududi and Sayid Qutub on Jihaad and Islamic State, (International Journal of Multidisciplinary Educational Research, Vol 7, No (12(2) (2018).
• Rosemary Teele Langford, Conflicts and Coherence in the Charities Sphere: Would a Conflict By Any Other Name Proscribe the Same?, ((2020) 14 Journal of Equity).
• Peter Molk & D. Daniel Sokol, Nonprofit Governance in an Age of Compliance,(August 7, 2020).

Recent & Forthcoming books:

• Aaron Griffith, God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America, (Harvard Univ. Press, Nov. 2020).
• William N. Eskridge Jr. & Christopher R. Riano, Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In-Laws , (Yale Univ. Press, Aug. 2020).

Recent Articles and Forthcoming Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Micah Schwartzman & Jocelyn Wilson, The Unreasonableness of Catholic Integralism, (Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2019-43 (2019)).
• Steven F. Friedell, Jewish Law in Israel — Hope and Renewal, (August 9, 2019).
• Robert C. Blitt, The International Religious Freedom Act: Non-State Actors and Freedom from Sovereign Government Control, (August 9, 2019).
• Mohammad Fadel, The Challenges of Islamic Law Adjudication in Public Reason, (Public Reason and Courts, edited by Langvatn et al., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming).
• Carl H. Esbeck, The World War I Memorial Cross Case: U.S. Supreme Court Takes a New Approach with the Establishment Clause, (University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-15 (2019).
• Courtney G. Joslin, Autonomy in the Family, (66 UCLA Law Review 912 (2019)).
• Abner S. Greene, Barnette and Masterpiece Cakeshop: Some Unanswered Questions, (13 FIU L. Rev. 667 (2019)).

Forthcoming Books:

• Adriano Prosperi, Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe, (Harvard Univ. Press, May 2020).
• Magda Teter, Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth, (Harvard Univ. Press, Jan. 2020).
• Ian Coller, Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution, (Yale Univ. Press, Jan. 2020).
• Edward E. Curtis IV, Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy, (NYU Press, Dec. 2019).
• P. Peter Sarros, U.S.-Vatican Relations, 1975–1980: A Diplomatic Study, (Notre Dame Univ. Press, Dec. 2019).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Pauline Ridge, Not-for-Profit Law and Freedom of Religion, (Matthew Harding (ed), Research Handbook on Not-for-Profit Law (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2018) 284-303).
• Avishalom Westreich, Present-Day Posthumous Reproduction and Traditional Levirate Marriage: Two Types of Interactions, (Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Forthcoming).
• Howard Kislowicz, Religious Communications Privilege, (Forthcoming, Perspectives on Evidential Privileges, Dr. Christopher D.L. Hunt, ed (Toronto: Thomson Reuters, 2019)).
• Nathan B. Oman, 'We, The People of the Kingdom of God': Constitution Writing in the Council of Fifty, (The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal About Mormon History 55-72 (Matthew J. Grow & R. Eric Smith, eds. (2017)).
• Eric Heinze, No-Platforming and Safe Spaces: Should Universities Censor More (Or Less) Speech than the Law Requires?, (Croatian Political Science Review (December, 2018)).
• Christopher Sundby & Suzanna Sherry, Term Limits and Turmoil: Roe v. Wade's Whiplash, (Texas Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Eric Heinze, Review of: Alex Brown, Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination, (International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs (2018)).
• Ihsan Yilmaz, Erdoğan’s Political Islamist Narrative and Radicalization of the Turkish Muslim Diaspora, (November 18, 2018).
• Nathan J. Brown, Who or What Is the Wali al-Amr: The Unposed Question, (Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Forthcoming).

Recent Books:

• Ellis M. West, The Free Exercise of Religion in America: Its Original Constitutional Meaning, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
•  Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law, (Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2019).
• Duncan Ryūken Williams, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War, (Harvard Univ. Press, Feb. 2019).

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

• Puranjay K. Vedi, Working Paper: Muslims, Their Identity and Discontent in India, (October 1, 2018).
• Puranjay K. Vedi, Working Paper: Decoding Anandpur Sahib Resolution, (November 19, 2018).
• Puranjay K. Vedi, Working Paper: A Brief Introduction to Old Russia, (November 19, 2018).
• Kathryn Chan & Howard Kislowicz, Divine Intervention, Part I: A Study of the Operation and Impact of Non-Governmental Interveners in Canadian Religious Freedom Litigation, ((2019) 90 SCLR (2d) Forthcoming).
• Ronald James Krotoszynski, 'The Devil Is in the Details': On the Central Importance of Distinguishing the Truly Public from the Truly Private in Reconciling Equality and Religious Liberty, (Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Cambridge University Press 2018) (Chapter 7)),
• Howard Kislowicz & Senwung Luk, Recontextualizing Ktunaxa Nation v. British Columbia: Crown Land, History and Indigenous Religious Freedom, ((2019) 88 S.C.L.R. (2d) 205-229).
• Lonen Titia, In Search of An EU Approach to Headscarf Bans: Where to Go after Achbita and Bougnaoui?, (Review of European Administrative Law; Vol. 10, Nr. 2, 47-73 (2017).
• Gautam Bhatia, Caste and the Law (January 30, 2019).

From SmartCILP:

• Jamal Greene, Rights As Trumps? 132 Harvard Law Review 28-132 (2018).
• John Medeiros & Philip Steger, Sanctuary and Harboring in Trump's America. 44 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 869-906 (2018).
• James A. Sonne, Cross-Cultural Lawyering and Religion: A Clinical Perspective, 25 Clinical Law Review 223-268 (2018).

Recent Book:

• Douglas Laycock, Religious Liberty (set of 5 volumes), (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, Nov. 2018).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Bob Rush & Steve Sanders, Brief Amici Curiae of Scholars of Law, History, Bioethics, Gender, and Sexuality in Good v. Iowa Dept of Human Resources, (November 4, 2018).
• Marc Greendorfer, Discrimination as a Business Policy: The Misuse and Abuse of Corporate Social Responsibility Programs, (November 6, 2018).
• Etienne Toussaint, The New Gospel of Wealth: On Social Impact Bonds and the Privatization of Public Good, (56 Hous. L. Rev. 153 (2018)).

From SmartCILP:

• Yehezkel Margalit, Towards Establishing Parenthood by Agreement in Jewish Law, 26 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 647-689 (2018).
• Yolanda Rondon, Treatment of Domestic Terrorism Court Cases: Class and Mental Health in the Criminal System, 26 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 741-792 (2018).
• Symposium on Families and Religion. Articles by Larry O.C. Chukwu, Patrick F. Fagan, William L. Saunders, Lynn D. Wardle. 32 Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law 191-255 (2018).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• Ronald Hutton, The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present, (Yale Univ. Press, Oct. 2018).
• Donald A. Westbrook, Among the Scientologists: History, Theology, and Praxis, (Oxford Univ. Press, Dec. 2018).
• Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: A Fresh Interpretation, (Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2019).
• Giuliana Chamedes, A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe, (Harvard Univ. Press, June 2019).
• Adriano Prosperi, Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe, (Harvard Univ. Press, July 2019).

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

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

From SmartCILP:

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

New Book:

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

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

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

From SSRN (Islamic law):

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

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

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

Recent Book:

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

Recent Articles and Book of Interest

From SSRN:

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

From SSRN (Law of charities):

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

From SSRN (European law):

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

From SSRN (Islam and Islamic Law):

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

From SmartCILP:

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

Recent Book:

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

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

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

Recent Books:

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

Annual Bibliography of Law & Religion Publications Released By AALS Section

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

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Catherine E. Smith, et. al., Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of The Constitutional Rights and Interests Of Children in Support of Respondents in Masterpiece Cakeshop LTD, et al v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, (U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper, Working Paper No. 17-39 (Nov. 2017)).
• Ian S. Speir, 'A Beacon on Our Coast': Religious Freedom as the First Freedom at Home and Abroad, (Providence, Forthcoming).
• Sahar F. Aziz, A Muslim Registry: The Precursor to Internment?, (Brigham Young University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Antony Barone Kolenc, Putting Faith in Europe: Should the U.S. Supreme Court Learn from the European Court of Human Rights?, (Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2016).
• Luke W. Goodrich & Rachel N. Busick, Sex, Drugs, and Eagle Feathers: An Empirical Study of Federal Religious Freedom Cases, (Seton Hall Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Holning Lau & Hillary Li, American Equal Protection and Global Convergence, (Fordham Law Review, Vol. 86, 2017).

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

• Rung-Guang Lin, Towards Religious Institutionalism? The Future of the Regulation of Religious Institutions in Taiwan, (November 5, 2017).
• Masua Sagiv, The State and New Religious Movements, (Contemporary Alternative Spiritualities in Israel 115 (Shai Feraro and James R. Lewis eds., 2017)).
• Margaret D. Hagan, Human Rights Melodrama: A Literary Analysis of Reports of Police Violence Against Hungarian Roms, (Journal of Human Rights, Taylor and Francis, Pages 401-415 (2016).
• Ido Katri, The Banishment of Isaac: Racial Signifiers of Gender Performance, (University of Toronto Law Journal 68:1(2017)).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• Mark Strasser, Neutrality, Accommodation, and Conscience Clause Legislation, 8 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 197-238 (2017).
• Emma Green, The Quiet Religious-Freedom Fight That Is Remaking America, The Atlantic (Nov. 5, 2017).

Recent & Forthcoming Books:

• S.I. Strong, Transforming Religious Liberties: A New Theory of Religious Rights for National and International Legal Systems, (Cambridge Univ. Press, Oct. 2017).
• Michel Rosenfeld & Susanna Mancini, The Conscience Wars: Rethinking the Balance between Religion, Identity, and Equality, (Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2018).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Scott Skinner-Thompson, The First Queer Right, (Michigan Law Review, Forthcoming).
• Michael A. Helfand, Implied Consent: A Primer and a Defense, (Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 50, Forthcoming).
• Yinka Olomojobi, Explaining the Osmosis of Identity Threats and Religious Violence, (October 31, 2017).
• Anna Su, Varieties of Burden in Religious Accommodations, (October 27, 2017).
• Lisa Mathews, Hobby Lobby and Hobbs to the Rescue: Clarifying Rluipa’s Confusing Substantial Burden Test for Land-Use Cases, (George Mason Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2017).
• Maureen Johnson, Trickle-Down Bullying and the Truly Great American Response: Can Responsible Rhetoric in Judicial Advocacy and Decision-Making Help Heal the Divisiveness of the Trump Presidency?, (25:4 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 445 (2017)).
• Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema, Mulla's Principles of Mahomedan Law in Pakistani Courts: Undoing/Unraveling the Colonial Enterprise?, (October 21, 2017).

From SmartCILP:

• Milena Sterio, Individual Criminal Responsibility for the Destruction of Religious and Historic Buildings: The Al Mahdi Case, 49 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 63-73 (2017).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• Michele F. Margolis,  From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity, (Univ. of Chicago Press, (June 2018).
• Rumee Ahmed, Sharia Compliant: A User's Guide to Hacking Islamic Law, (Stanford Univ. Press, May 2018).
• Matthew Bowman, Christian: The Politics of a Word in America, (Harvard Univ. Press, April 2018).
• Martyn Frampton, The Muslim Brotherhood and the West: A History of Enmity and Engagement, (Belknap Press, Feb. 2018).
• Stephen E. Strang, God and Donald Trump, (Charisma House, Nov. 2017).
• Murat Akan, The Politics of Secularism: Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey, (Columbia Univ. Press, Sept. 2017).
• Ahmad Atif Ahmad, Islamic Law: Cases, Authorities and Worldview, (Bloomsbury Publishing, May 2017).

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

From SSRN:

• Joseph William Singer, Property and Sovereignty Imbricated: Why Religion Is Not an Excuse to Discriminate in Public Accommodations, (18 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 521 (2017)).
• Steven Douglas Smith, Against 'Civil Rights' Simplism: How Not to Accommodate Competing Legal Commitments, (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-294 (2017)).
• David Pozen, The Abortion Closet (with a Note on Rules and Standards), (Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Forthcoming).
• Ian Murray, The Taming of the Charitable Shrew: State Roll Back of Charity Tax Concessions, (27(1) Public Law Review 54 (2016)).

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

• Neil James Foster, Protecting Religious Freedom in Australia through Legislative Balancing Clauses, (June 14, 2017).
• Lama Abu-Odeh, Who Cares About Islamic Law?, (Al-Jumhuriya, Forthcoming).
• Mohamed Abdelaal, Extreme Secularism vs. Religious Radicalism: The Case of the French Burkini, (23 ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law (2017)).
• Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan, Rights to Freedom of Religious Belief and Expression, (June 27, 2017).
• Kathryn Chan, Identifying the Institutional Religious Freedom Claimant, (95 Cdn Bar Review (Forthcoming)).
• Kai Möller, Ritual Male Circumcision and Parental Authority, (LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 14/2017).
• Tamar Kricheli‐Katz, Haggai Porat & Yuval Feldman, Are All Types of Discrimination Created Equal?, (June 26, 2017).

Recent and Forthcoming Books:

• Jenna Weissman Joselit, Set in Stone-- America's Embrace of the Ten Commandments, (Oxford Univ. Press, May 2017), author interview by The Forward.
• Michael J. Broyde, Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels-- Religious Arbitration in America and the West, (Oxford Univ. Press, June 2017).
• John Corvino, Ryan T. Anderson & Sherif Girgis, Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination, (Oxford Univ. Press, June 2017).
• Ronit Y. Stahl, Enlisting Faith-- How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America, (Harvard Univ. Press,Nov. 2017).
• Joseph Kip Kosek (ed.), American Religion, American Politics-- An Anthology, (Yale Univ. Press, May 2017).
• Spencer W. McBride, Pulpit and Nation-- Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America, (University of Virginia Press, Jan. 2017).