Religion & Law

Recent Articles and New Book of Interest

By Howard M. Friedman

From SSRN:

• Edward H. Sisson, A Proposal for State Legislatures to Pursue Impartial Audits of the Scientific Basis for Evolution as the State Teaches it in its High Schools, Colleges, and Universities, (March 10, 2009).
• Enyinna S. Nwauche, Law Religion and Human Rights in Nigeria, (African Human Rights Law Journal, Vol. 2, 2008).
• Mark Strasser, Religion in the Schools: On Prayer, Neutrality and Sectarian Perspectives, (Akron Law Review, Vol. 42, pp. 185-241, 2009).
• Mark Strasser, State Funding of Devotional Studies: A Failed Jurisprudence that Has Lost its Moorings, (Journal of Law and Family Studies, Vol. 11, pp. 1-34, 2008).
  

From Bepress:

• Farrokh B. Sekaleshfar, Abortion Perspectives of Shiah Islam, (Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology: Vol. 2 : Iss. 3, Article 4).
• Farid Sufian Shuaib, Review of "Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Ideas and Institutions", (Asian Journal of Comparative Law: Vol. 3 : Iss. 1, Article 11, 2008).

• Josie F. Brown, Representative Tension: Student Religious Speech and the Public School's Institutional Mission, 38 Journal of Law & Education 1-82 (2009).
• Ofrit Liviatan, The Impact of Alternative Constitutional Regimes on Religious Freedom in Canada and England [scroll to pg. 45], 32 Boston College International & Comparative Law Review 45-82 (2009).

• Jay Wexler, Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church-State War, (Beacon Press, June 2009), [book's website], author interview in Religion Dispatches.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).