Religion & Law

Recent Articles of Interest

By Howard M. Friedman

From SSRN:

• Adam Schwartzbaum, The Niqab in the Courtroom: Protecting Free Exercise in a Post-Smith World, (April 20, 2010).
• Samuel J. Levine, Of Inkblots and Omnisignificance: Conceptualizing Secondary and Symbolic Functions of the Ninth Amendment, in a Comparative Hermeneutic Framework, (Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2009, No. 2, 2009).
• Samuel J. Levine, Goldman v. Weinberger: Religious Freedom Confronts Military Uniformity, (Law and Religion: Cases in Context: Leading Law and Religion Scholars Explore the Issue That Confound the Courts, Leslie C. Griffin ed., 2010.)
• Mike Newdow, Question to Justice Scalia: Does the Establishment Clause Permit the Disregard of Devout Catholics?, (Capital University Law Review, Forthcoming).
• David W. Opderbeck, A Critical Realist Theology of Law, Neurobiology, and the Soul, (Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper, April 23, 2010).
• Lorenz Langer, Panacea or Pathetic Fallacy? The Swiss Ban on Minarets, (Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 43, 2010).
• Robert K. Vischer, Individual Rights vs. Institutional Identity: The Relational Dimension of Conscience in Health Care, (U of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-17, 2010).
• Robert K. Vischer, Conscience and the Common Good: Reclaiming the Space between Person and State, (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

From SmartCILP:

• John A. Eidsmoe, The Use of the Ten Commandments in American Courts, 3 Liberty University Law Review 15-46 (2009).
• Jeffrey C. Tuomala, Book Review, (Reviewing Robert George, The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis), 3 Liberty University Law Review 77-102 (2009).
• Symposium: A Celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of Mulieris Dignitatem, Part I. Articles by Marguerite A. Peeters, Sr. Prudence Allen, Maria Sophia Aguirre, Mary Timothy Prokes, Elizabeth R. Schiltz, Margaret McCarthy, I.F.C. Camp, M.R. Gonzales and Helen M. Alvare. 8 Ave Maria Law Review 1-195 (2009).

Full post as published by Religion Clause on April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).