Religion & Law

Recent Articles of Interest

By Howard M. Friedman

• Geoffrey P. Miller, The Dark Age: How the Biblical Narratives Demonstrate the Necessity for Law and Government, (NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-18, March 24, 2010).
• Geoffrey P. Miller, Of Floods and Towers: The Bible?s Affirmative Case for Law and Government, (NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-19, March 24, 2010).
• Geoffrey P. Miller, Patriarchy: The Political Theory of Family Authority in the Book of Genesis, (New York University School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-23, April 2, 2010).
• Adham A. Hashish, Islamic Ijtihad: The Key to Islamic Democracy Bridging and Balancing Political Islam and Intellectual Islam, (Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business, Vol. 9, No. 61, Winter 2010).
• Hans-Martien Ten Napel Th.D., Protestantism, Globalization and the Democratic Constitutional State, (Reshaping Protestantism in a Global Context, Volker Küster, ed., LIT, 2009).
• Mark Rahdert, Forks Taken and Roads Not Taken: Standing to Challenge Faith-Based Spending, (March 19, 2010).
• Jennifer Gerarda Brown, Peacemaking in the Culture War between Gay Rights and Religious Liberty, (Iowa Law Review, Vol. 95, p. 747, 2010).
• Paul M. Secunda, District Court Amicus Brief of Law Professors in Support of Defendants, Associated Oregon Industries v. Avakian, No. 3:09-CV-1494-MO (March 22, 2010).
• Cyra Akila Choudhury, Globalizing the Margins: Legal Exiles in the War on Terror and Liberal Feminism?s War for Muslim Women, (International Review of Constitutionalism, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2010).
• Mostapha Benhenda, For Muslim Minorities, it is Possible to Endorse Political Liberalism, But This is not Enough, (Journal of Islamic Law and Culture, Vol. 11, No. 2, May 2009).
• Andrew F. March, The Post-Legal Ethics of Tariq Ramadan: Persuasion and Performance in 'Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation' (A Review Essay), (Middle East Law and Governance, Forthcoming).
• Ilan H. Fuchs, 'Sephardic' Halakhah? The Attitude of Sephardic Decisors to Women?s Torah Study: A Test Case , (Bar Ilan Univ. Pub Law Working Paper No. 02-10, Dec. 31, 2009).
• Francesco Alicino, Constitutionalism as a Peaceful "Site" of Religious Struggles, Global Jurist, Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 (Advances) (2010).
• Lourens Du Plessis, Religious Freedom and Equality as Celebration of Difference: A Significant Development in Recent South African Constitutional Case-Law , (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2009).

From SmartCILP:

• E. Gregory Wallace, Justifying Religious Freedom: The Western Tradition, 114 Penn State Law Review 485-570 (2009).
• Shannon Gilreath, Not a Moral Issue: Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty (Reviewing Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty, edited by Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. Picarello, Jr. and Robin Fretwell Wilson), 2010 University of Illinois Law Review 205-223.
• Timothy D. Lytton, Framing Clergy Sexual Abuse as an Institutional Failure: How Tort Litigation Influences Media Coverage, 36 Wm. Mitchell Law Review 169-185 (2009).
• Jared Rubin, Social Insurance, Commitment, and the Origin of Law: Interest Bans in Early Christianity, [Abstract], 52 Journal of Law & Economics 761-777 (2009).
• Ofrit Liviatan, Judicial Activism and Religion-Based Tensions in India and Israel, 26 Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law 583-621 (2009).
• Teri Dobbins Baxter, Private Oppression: How Laws that Protect Privacy Can Lead to Oppression, 58 University of Kansas Law Review 415-471 (2010).

Full post as published by Religion Clause on April 04, 2010 (boomark / email).