Religion & Law

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

By Howard Friedman

From SSRN:

• Robert A. Kahn, Hate Speech and National Identity: The Case of the United States and Canada, (U of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-02, 2008).


• Martin H. Belsky, Alan Dershowitz: The Advocate and Scholar as Jew; the Jew as Advocate and Scholar, (Albany Law Review, 2008).


• Robert Luther, Robert & David B. Caddell, Breaking Away from the 'Prayer Police': Why the First Amendment Permits Sectarian Legislative Prayer and Demands a 'Practice Focused' Analysis, (Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 569, 2008).


• Christina E. Wells, Privacy and Funeral Protests, (March 10, 2008).


• Rajdeep Singh Jolly, The Application of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to Appearance Regulations that Presumptively Prohibit Observant Sikh Lawyers from Joining the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps, (Chapman Law Review, Vol. 11, p. 155, 2007).


• Edwin Baker, Hate Speech, (U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-09 2008).

From SmartCILP:

• Kathryn Boustead, The French Headscarf Law Before the European Court of Human Rights, 16 Journal of Transnational Law & Policy 167-196 (2007).


• Bruce L. Hay, Charades: Religious Allegory in 12 Angry Men, 82 Chicago-Kent Law Review 811-861 (2007).

Recent Books:

• Steven Waldman, Founding Faith: Providence, Politics and Birth of Religious Freedom in America, (Random House, March 11, 2008), reviewed in Newsweek.


• Tara Ross & Joseph C. Smith, Jr., Under God: George Washington and the Question of Church and State (Spence Publishing, 2008).

Full post as published by Religion Clause on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).