Religion & Law

A Survey of Law & Religion Casebooks For Law Schools

By Howard M. Friedman

As the new semester is about to begin, here is a listing of casebooks and teaching materials on law and religion designed for law schools and law students available from major law book publishers (listed alphabetically by author):

• Ariens & Destro, Religious Liberty in a Pluralistic Society, 2d ed., (Carolina Academic Press, 2002).
• Belsky & Bessler-Northcutt, Law and Theology, (Carolina Academic Press, 2005).
• Berg's The State and Religion in a Nutshell, 2d (West Pub., 2004).
• Brownstein and Jacobs's Global Issues in Freedom of Speech and Religion: Cases and Materials (West Pub., 2008).
• Gey, Fonvielle & Hinkle, Religion and the State, 2d ed, (Matthew Bender, 2006).
• Griffin's Law and Religion, Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 2006) with 2009 Supplement.
• Loewy's Religion and the Constitution: Cases and Materials (West Pub., 1998) with 2002 Supplement.
• McConnell, Harvey & Berg, Religion and the Constitution, 2d ed., (Aspen Publishers, 2006).
• Noonan and Gaffney's Religious Freedom: History, Cases and Other Materials on the Interaction of Religion and Government, 2d ed. (Foundation Press, 2010) (available 4/2010, earlier edition currently available).
• Ravitch's Law and Religion, A Reader: Concepts, Cases and Theory, 2d ed. (West Pub., 2004).
• Volokh's The Religion Clauses and Related Statutes: Problems, Cases and Policy Arguments (Foundation Press, 2005).
  

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