…nations. The United States Supreme court and all federal and state courts still rely on the principles of Discovery and continue to cite Johnson v. M’Intosh. Property law and federal…
“Death Sentence and Imprisonment under Nigerian Blasphemy Laws” by Georgia du Plessis
…was convicted in August 2020, by the Hausawa Filin Hockey upper-Sharia court. In November 2022, he filed a notice of appeal at the Supreme Court of Nigeria challenging Kano State’s…
“Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Nonhuman Environment” by Dana Lloyd
…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…
“I Swear to God: Oaths, Accommodations, and the Binding of Conscience” by Matthew P. Cavedon
…crime simply because their words were worth nothing in court. Photo of Supreme Court, Public Domain Anglo-American law has long had two main remedies for this. One is to simply…
“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…
“Non-Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation” by Johan D. van der Vyver
Non-Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation Johan D. van der Vyver Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels The judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Bostock v. Clayton…