Religion & Law

Recently Scholarly Articles and New Book of Interest

By Howard M. Friedman

• Steven J. Heyman, Hate Speech, Public Discourse, and the First Amendment, (in Extreme Speech and Democracy, Ivan Hare, James Weinstein (eds.), Oxford University Press, Forthcoming).
• Maleiha Malik, Religious Freedom and Multiculturalism: R (Shabina Begum) V Denbigh High School, (King's Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2 (July 25, 2008)).

• Adam Grieser, Peter Jacques & Richard Witmer, Reconsidering Religion Policy as Violence: Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, 10 The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 373-396 (2008).
• Osama Siddique & Zahra Hayat, Unholy Speech and Holy Laws: Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan--Controversial Origins, Design Defects, and Free Speech Implications, 17 Minnesota Journal of International Law 303-385 (2008).
• Lisa M. Holmes, Religious Affiliation, Personal Beliefs, and the President's Framing of Judicial Nominees, 56 Drake Law Review 679-704 (2008).
• Christine L. Nemacheck, Have Faith in Your Nominee? The Role of Candidate Religious Beliefs in Supreme Court Selection Politics, 56 Drake Law Review 706-728 (2008).
• Symposium: Educational Choice: Emerging Legal and Policy Issues, 2008 BYU Law Review 227-592 [full text of all articles].
• Andrew P. Morriss, Bootleggers, Baptists and Televangelists, Regulation, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 26-31, Summer 2008.
• The Spring 2008 issue (Vol. 50, No. 2) of the Journal of Church and State has recently been issued. [Table of Contents].

New Book:

• Herbert London, America?s Secular Challenge-- The Rise of a New National Religion, (Encounter Books, 2008), reviewed by the Washington Times.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on August 04, 2008 (boomark / email).