Religion & Law

New Articles of Interest This Week Abound

By Howard M. Friedman

• Lloyd H. Mayer, The Pulpit, Politics, RFRA, and Institutional Free Exercise, (Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 08-30, Sept. 2008).
• Ira C. Lupu & Robert W. Tuttle, Courts, Clergy, and Congregations: Disputes between Religious Institutions and Their Leaders, (Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2009).
• Lynn S. Branham, 'The Devil is in the Details': A Continued Dissection of the Constitutionality of Faith-Based Prison Units, (U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-35 (Sept. 2008).
• Aaron K. Block, When Money Is Tight, Is Strict Scrutiny Loose?: Cost Sensitivity as a Compelling Governmental Interest Under the Religious Land Use & Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, (September, 23 2008).
• Scott C. Idleman, Private Conscience, Public Duties: The Unavoidable Conflicts Facing a Catholic Justice, (University of St. Thomas Law Journal, Vol. 4, pp. 312-324, 2007).
• Martha M. Ertman, 'They Ain't Whites; They're Mormons': An Illustrated History of Polygamy as Race Treason, (U. of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-37, September 2008).
• Ira C. Lupu & Robert W. Tuttle, Constitutional Change and Responsibilities of Governance Pertaining to the Faith-Based and Community Initiative, in Research on Innovations in Effective Compassion (HHS, June 2008).

From SSRN (non-US law):

• Kathryn Chan, Taxing Charities/Imposer Les Organismes DeBienfaisance: Harmonization and Dissonance in Canadian Charity Law, (Canadian Tax Journal/ Reue Fiscale Canadienne, Vol. 55, No. 3, 2007).
• Marc Hertogh, What's in a Handshake? Legal Equality and Legal Consciousness in the Netherlands, (Social & Legal Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2009).
• Smita Narula, Equal by Law, Unequal by Caste: The 'Untouchable' Condition in Critical Race Perspective, (Wisconsin International Law Journal, Vol. 26, p. 255, 2008).

From SmartCILP:

• Symposium, The Constitutionality of Faith-Based Prison Units [full text of all articles], 6 Ave Maria Law Review 341-511 (2008).
• David C. Flatto, The King and I: The Separation of Powers in Early Hebraic Political Theory, 20 Yale Journal of Law & Humanities 61-110 (2008).

Full post as published by Religion Clause on September 29, 2008 (boomark / email).