Religion & Law

New Scholarly Articles and Books of Interest Abound

By Howard M. Friedman

• Ayelet Shachar, Privatizing Diversity: A Cautionary Tale from Religious Arbitration in Family Law, (June 25, 2008, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 573-607, 2008).
• Katja Rost, Emil Inauen, Margit Osterloh & Bruno S. Frey, The Corporate Governance of Benedictine Abbeys: What Can Stock Corporations Learn from Monasteries?, (May 25, 2008).
• Frederick Mark Gedicks, Fundamentalism, Spirituality, and Church-State Relations in the United States. Chapter in Multiculturalisms: Different Meanings and Perspectives of Multiculturalism in a Global World (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, Barbara Pozzo ed. forthcoming 2008).
• John M. Bickers, Of Non-Horses, Quantum Mechanics, and the Establishment Clause" (forthcoming 57 Kansas Law Review (2009)).
• Vincent Phillip Munoz, The Original Meaning of the Free Exercise Clause: The Evidence from the First Congress" Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 1083-1120 (2008).

• Lisa Shaw Roy, History, Transparency, and the Establishment Clause: A Proposal for Reform, 112 Penn State Law Review 683-729 (2008).
• John Witte, Jr., "Fairer Still the Woodlands" --Mapping the Free Exercise Forest, (Reviewing Kent Greenawalt, Religion and the Constitution: Free Exercise and Fairness.) 24 Constitutional Commentary 551-565 (2007).
• The Wren Cross Controversy: Religion and the Public University. Essays by Erwin Chemerinsky and Gerard V. Bradley. 49 William & Mary Law Review 2193-2263 (2008): Chemerinsky, Why Church and State Should Be Separate; Bradley, Religion at a Public University.
• Frank S. Ravitch, Intelligent Design in Public University Science Departments: Academic Freedom or Establishment of Religion, 16 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 1061-1090 (2008).
• Thomas L. Shaffer, Business Lawyers, Baseball Players, and the Hebrew Prophets, 42 Valparaiso University Law Review 1063-1080 (2008).
• Nicholas A. Schuneman, One Nation, Under ...The Watchmaker?: Intelligent Design and the Establishment Clause, 22 BYU Journal of Public Law 179-227 (2007).
• Jeffrey Shulman, What Yoder Wrought: Religious Disparagement, Parental Alienation and the Best Interests of the Child, 53 Villanova Law Review 173-208 (2008).
• William Joseph Wagner, To the Age of Social Revolution: As Papal Rejoiner, "The Apocalypse Is Not Now", 53 Villanova Law Review 209-271 (2008).

• The Center for American Progress has published in full online a collection of essays titled Debating the Divine: Religion in 21st Century American Democracy. Links to individual essays are on the Center's web page devoted to the book. [Thanks to Melissa Rogers for the lead.]
• Mark Silk & Andrew Walsh, One Nation, Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics, (Rowman & Littlefield, June 2008). [Thanks to Spiritual Politics for the lead.]

Full post as published by Religion Clause on July 07, 2008 (boomark / email).