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“How Should an Ethical Prosecutor Act if the Jails are Unsafe? Lessons from Jewish Law – Part III” by Michael J. Broyde

May 14, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysBroyde, Michael J., Criminal Law, Judaism, May 2020, Politics

Photo by jessica45 on Pixabay This is the final installment of a three-part essay, offering a radical proposal for how ethical prosecutors ought to approach sentencing recommendations for non-violent criminal offenders, given the often dangerous and abusive conditions that exist in many American prisons. This perspective is informed by Jewish law’s complex history and jurisprudence…

“How Should an Ethical Prosecutor Act if the Jails are Unsafe? Lessons from Jewish Law – Part II” by Michael J. Broyde

May 13, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysBroyde, Michael J., Criminal Law, Judaism, May 2020, Politics

Photo by jessica45 on Pixabay This is the second part of a three-part essay offering a radical proposal for how ethical prosecutors ought to approach sentencing recommendations for non-violent criminal offenders given the often dangerous and abusive conditions that exist in many American prisons. This perspective is informed by Jewish law’s complex history and jurisprudence…

“How Should an Ethical Prosecutor Act if the Jails are Unsafe? Lessons from Jewish Law – Part I” by Michael J. Broyde

May 12, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysBroyde, Michael J., Criminal Law, Judaism, May 2020, Politics

Photo by jessica45 on Pixabay This is the first part of a three-part essay offering a radical proposal for how ethical prosecutors ought to approach sentencing recommendations for non-violent criminal offenders given the often dangerous and abusive conditions that exist in many American prisons. This perspective is informed by Jewish law’s complex history and jurisprudence…

REVIEW: ‘Dar al-Islam Revisited: Territoriality in Contemporary Islamic Legal Discourse on Muslims in the West’ by Sarah Albrecht

May 8, 2020Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsAsia (Geography), Blumenthal, David R., Islam, May 2020, Religious Law and Legal Systems

Dār al-Islām Revisited: Territoriality in Contemporary Islamic Legal Discourse on Muslims in the West by Sarah Albrecht Review by David R. Blumenthal Albrecht begins her very fine study with a methodological introduction, a summary of the various pre-modern views of territoriality in Islam, and an overview of various Islamic views on territoriality in the modern…

“Human Rights and Christian Ethics: Finding Convergence in Response to Communicable Infections” by Israel Chukwuka Okunwaye

May 5, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Health Law, Healthcare, May 2020, Okunwaye, Israel Chukwuka

This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. In a 2016 article in the American Journal of Law and Medicine, George Annas developed four guiding principles, which he argued could helpfully chart a broad health and human rights response to the spread of…

“Religious Freedom and Subsidiarity in the Coronavirus Pandemic” by M. Christian Green

May 3, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Green, M. Christian, Healthcare, May 2020, Religious Freedom

Photo by Queven on Pixabay This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Congressman Clay Higgins, representing Louisiana’s Third Congressional District, recently drew attention for his response to the COVID-19 pandemic. First, the congressman addressed a letter to Louisiana’s Governor John Bel Edwards…

“Pandemic Monitoring Without Scapegoating: Lessons from the Shincheonji Community of South Korea” by Massimo Introvigne

Apr 30, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesApril 2020, Asia (Geography), Christianity, Introvigne, Massimo, Religious Freedom

Photo by Pixabay on Pixabay (CCO) An earlier version of this essay was published here, on Diresom. This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. On February 19, 2020, I received the first of many phone calls from the media about a new…

“Re-centering the Religious Freedom v. Public Health Debate” by Faraz Sanei

Apr 29, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesApril 2020, Ethics, Religious Freedom, Sanei, Faraz

This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened concerns among human rights advocates that governments will use their police powers to suspend or severely curb fundamental rights in the name of public health, welfare,…

“Soul Repair: A Jewish View (Part 3)” by David R. Blumenthal

Apr 26, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysApril 2020, Blumenthal, David R., Ethics, Judaism

Abstract by mahtabahamad on Flickr (CCO) This is the third installment of a three-part series of essays that discuss the Jewish tradition’s answer to repairing the soul in the midst of wrongdoing, guilt, and shame. The first part used the biblical story of King David to illustrate the importance of taking ownership of one’s wrongdoing,…

“Trump Administration’s Religious Freedom Claims Require a Closer Look” by Melissa Rogers

Apr 24, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysApril 2020, Christianity, Politics, Religious Freedom, Rogers, Melissa

The Trump administration is promoting new proposed rules on social service partnerships with faith-based organizations under the banner of religious freedom. A closer look, however, reveals that the proposals would actually eliminate certain religious liberty protections for social service beneficiaries, and that none of the Trump administration’s justifications for its actions holds water. To appreciate…