Religion & Law

Recent Articles of Interest

By Howard M. Friedman

• Haider Ala Hamoudi, Book Review: Orientalism and 'The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State', (Middle East Law and Governance: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, Sept. 10, 2008).


• Robert A. Kahn, Are Muslims the New Catholics? Europe's Headscarf Laws in Comparative Historical Perspective, (U of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-26, Sept. 2, 2008).


• Patrick Macklem, Minority Rights in International Law, (July 1, 2008).


• Christopher C. Lund, Equal Liberty and Religious Exemptions: A Response to Eisgruber and Sager, (September 4, 2008).


• Frederic Megret, Canada Leading the Way? Reasonable Accommodation from the Standpoint of International Human Rights Law ('Le Canada a la pointe de la tolerance? L'accommodement raisonnable a l'aune du droit international des droits de la personne', (in LA RELIGION, LE DROIT ET LE RAISONNABLE, Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens, ed., Themis, Montreal, 2008.)


• Deborah Cantrell, Love of Neighbor as a Lawyerly Practice: Insights from Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist Traditions, (U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-21, Aug. 28, 2008).


• Frederic Megret, Frederic, A Cautionary Tale from the Crusades? War and Prisoners in Conditions of Normative Incommensurability , (Prisoners in War, in Sibylle Scheipers, (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2008.)

Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 (2007-08) has recently been published. (Table of Contents).

From SmartCILP:

• Robert Petit, Stuart Ford & Neha Jain, Exploring Critical Issues In Religious Genocide: Case Studies of Violence In Tibet, Iraq and Gujarat, 40 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 163-214 (2008).
• Mark D. Yochum, On Ledewitz (Reviewing Bruce Ledewitz, American Religious Democracy), 46 Duquesne Law Review 311-321 (2008).

Full post as published by Religion Clause on September 15, 2008 (boomark / email).