…and social processes. Reverberating through history are the echoes of words that canonized inequity in the systemic structures of federalism in the United States. In 1823, the U.S. Supreme Court…
“A Belated Book Review: Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman, ‘Israel’s Emerging Constitution’ (1954) and Its Continued Relevance” by Michael J. Broyde
…Court decision, entitled Movement for Quality Government v. Knesset (HCJ 5658/23 decided 01/01/2024), twelve of the fifteen justices of the Supreme Court of Israel decided (at least in part) that…
“Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s religious liberty opinions won’t bother most American Jews” by Michael Helfand
…on the Supreme Court. The nomination is no doubt historic: If confirmed, Judge Jackson would be the third Black Supreme Court justice and first Black woman to serve on the…
“Law Without Gospel: Social Identity Pietism and the First Amendment Balance, Part Two” by Laura Ford
…help us to see why the Supreme Court’s First Amendment jurisprudence is so infamously fractured and complex, even incoherent, as some have argued. The First Amendment, perhaps more than any…
“Not an Act of Religious Freedom” by Patrick Hornbeck
…day thought was the Supreme Court’s mistaken decision in a case about the religious use of peyote by members of the Native American Church. In Employment Division v. Smith (1990),…
“AI and Jewish Law: Seeing How ChatGPT 4.0 Looks at a Novel Issue – Part III” by Michael J. Broyde
…the full-length article about the survey on the public’s trust towards AI courts). Dawn Lo, Can AI Replace a Judge in the Courtroom?, USNW Sydney, (2021). Notes that (1) Estonia…
“Washington State and the Priest-Penitent Privilege Redux: The Federal Trial Court Injunction” by Charles J. Russo
…ranks of its clergy? Or, could states seek to adopt variations of statutes of the kind that the Supreme Court has already repudiated in attempting to place limits on butchering…
“Reflections on Washington State’s Effort to Eliminate the Priest-Penitent Privilege” by Charles J. Russo
…Joseph Panzer Chair of Education in the School of Education and Health Sciences (SEHS), Director of SEHS’s Ph.D. Program in Educational Leadership, and Research Professor of Law in the School…
“The International Law of Colonialism: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Discovery Applied Worldwide” by Robert J. Miller
…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…