…Court case on fishing rights in the 1970s. The Court finally acknowledged Yurok fishing rights on the Klamath River, but decades of mismanagement, damming, and over-allocation of water had decimated…
“The Role of Lawyers in Rabbinic Arbitration” by Chaim Saiman
…established narrative about how law, religion, and politics are contested. The case of American-trained lawyers appearing before contemporary beth dins (rabbinical courts) offers a counter-example to this narrative, where legal…
“The Case for Parental Choice: God, Family, and Educational Liberty” by John E. Coons
…Nicole Stelle Garnett, Richard W. Garnett, and Ernest Morell. Recommended Citation Coons, John E. “The Case for Parental Choice: God, Family, and Educational Liberty.” Canopy Forum, June 8, 2023. https://canopyforum.org/2023/06/08/the-case-for-parental-choice-god-family-and-educational-liberty…
“Cuba: A Legal Framework that Restricts the Right to Religious Freedom” by Teresa I. Flores
…General and Free Nationalization of Education, that is, as a non-delegable and non-transferable duty of the Revolutionary State. In fact, at the time of nationalizing education back in 1961, the…
“Purity Culture and the Overturn of Roe: Understanding Christian Nationalistic Ideology and its Impact” by Jenny McGrath
…and Dobbs: Law and Religion in Pressing Supreme Court Cases” series. If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. On June 24th, the Supreme Court reversed…
“Order, Economy, and Legality: Johnson v. M’Intosh after Two Hundred Years” by Andrew Little
…when it repurchased a parcel 200 years after first losing it. She relied on a prior Supreme Court case from 1985, which explicitly cited Johnson. Courts should be reluctant to…
“The Southern Baptist Convention Cases and the Limited Option for Holding Religious Institutions Accountable for Clergy Sex Abuse” by Carolyn M. Warner
…the appeals court reversed, but the state supreme court reversed the appeals court and upheld the original conviction. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held that Lynn’s conduct was within the…
“Social Media, Free Speech, and Religious Freedom in Australia” by Colette Langos and Paul Babie
…the High Court (the Australian equivalent of the Supreme Court of the United States) has “implied” rights into the Constitution as a consequence of the federal democratic framework thereby established…
“Defining a Muslim; The Case of Pakistan and its Ahmadis” by Yasser Latif Hamdani
…providing religious instruction for pupils of that community in any educational institution maintained wholly by that community or denomination.” In 2024, the matter came before the Supreme Court again, where…
“Shifting Alliances and the Lost Consensus: The Religious Freedom Restoration Act at Thirty” by Kenneth Townsend
Shifting Alliances and the Lost Consensus: The Religious Freedom Restoration Act at Thirty Kenneth Townsend “Facade and fountain of the United States Supreme Court Building” by Sunira Moses (CC BY-SA…