Religion & Law

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

By Howard M. Friedman

From SSRN:

• Luc B. Tremblay, The Bouchard-Taylor Report on Cultural and Religious Accommodation: Multiculturalism by Any Other Name?,(EUI Working Papers LAW No. 2009/18, Dec. 1, 2009).
• Juliet P. Stumpf, Juliet P., The Implausible Alien: IQBAL and the Influence of Immigration Law, (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 14, No. 231, 2010).
• Cosmin Dariescu, Jurisdiction Over Marriage in the Romanian Principalities: From the Ecclesiastical Court to the Secular Tribunal, (Turning Points and Breaklines: Yearbook of Young Legal History 4, Szabolcs Hornyak, et. al., eds., pp.180-192, Martin Meidenbauer, Munchen, 2009).
• Gregor Noll, Sacrificial Violence and Targeting in International Humanitarian Law, (February 24, 2010).
• Perry Dane, Constitutional Law and Religion, (Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, Dennis Patterson, ed., Blackwell, 2010).
• Frederick C. DeCoste, Caesar's Faith: Limited Government and Freedom of Religion in Bruker v. Marcovitz, (Dalhousie Law Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 153-176, 2009).
• Dimitry Kochenov, On Options of Citizens and Moral Choices of States: Gays and European Federalism, (Fordham International Law Journal, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2009).
• Heather Kennedy, Pleasant Grove v. Summum: Is Ten Truly Greater than Seven? An Examination of the Government Speech Doctrine Regarding Privately Donated Monuments Displayed on Public Land, (February 23, 2010).

From SmartCILP and elsewhere:

• J. Scott Carpenter, Matthew Levitt & Michael Jacobson, Confronting the Ideology of Radical Extremism, 3 Journal of National Security Law & Policy 301-327 (2009).
• H. Lyssette Chavez & Monica K. Miller, Religious References in Death Sentence Phases of Trials: Two Psychological Theories That Suggest Judicial Rulings and Assumptions May Affect Jurors, 13 Lewis & Clark Law Review 1037-1083 (2009).
• Michael Hatfield, The Anabaptist Conscience and Religious Exemption to Jury Service, 65 N.Y.U. Annual Survey of American Law 269-322 (2009).
• Debra A. Jones, The Role of Spirituality in the Mediation Process, [Abstract], 27 Conflict Resolution Quarterly 145-165 (2009).
• Journal of Church and State, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Summer 2009) has recently been issued.
• The March 2010 issue of American United's Church & State has recently appeared online.

Recent Books:

• Dan Diner, Lost in the Sacred: Why the Muslim World Stood Still, (Princeton Univ. Press , Nov. 2009), reviewed in The Muslim News.
• Frank Lambert, Religion in American Politics: A Short History, (Princeton Univ. Press, Feb. 2010).
• Ian Buruma, Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, (Princeton Univ. Press, Feb. 2010).

Full post as published by Religion Clause on March 01, 2010 (boomark / email).