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The President and First Lady Meet with His Holiness Pope Francis at the Vatican by Shealah Craighead (CC BY 3.0 US) This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and Immigration. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. This paper examines U.S. humanitarian, refugee, and immigration policies in light of…
European Union Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels by Estonian Foreign Ministry (CC BY 2.0) This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and Immigration. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. The 2024 European Union Migration Pact is a significant new set of policies aimed at unifying the EU’s approach to…
Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY by David Merrett (CC BY 2.0) This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and Immigration. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. This essay is an excerpt from a report published in July 2025 by the Law, Rights, and Religion Project at Union…
Townsley-Murdock Immigrant Trail in Nebraska by Ammodramus (CC0 1.0) This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and Immigration. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. Increased Immigration and Attitudes about Immigrants In a conversation with a colleague the other day, I pointed out that the percentage of foreign-born people in…
FAN Members hold vigil during the Supreme Court hearing by Ilovestfrancis (CC BY-SA 3.0) This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and Immigration. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. Nomos, Narrative, and the “Alien” Law is more than a system of codified rules. A world of law, as…
Nature (AI) by Alan Warburton (CC BY 4.0). In 2014, users on LessWrong, an internet forum, encountered a post by a user named Roko, who posited that humanity would invent a superintelligence. This superintelligence would have the power to create fully accurate computerized simulations of people, essentially ending death. The AI, knowing that its creation…
Tonto National Forest by Janet Ward (CC BY 2.0). Among the Supreme Court’s most significant decisions on religious exercise this term was the decision not to act. The case—Apache Stronghold v. United States—was relisted 17 times before the Court issued a denial of certiorari indicating they would not hear the case. The conflict involved a…
Weak Thought and the LawThomas Jared Farmer The following is an excerpt from Thomas Jared Farmer’s upcoming book, Gianni Vattimo: Philosopher, Communist, Catholic, Nihilist. Farmer’s book is now available for pre-order. Excerpted with permission: Copyright (c) 2025 Columbia University Press. Used by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved. Page numbers refer to publications linked in the text.…
St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Roanoke, Virginia by Joe Ravi (CC-BY-SA 3.0). With the election of Leo XIV, who chose his name in an acknowledgment of Leo XIII, the pope of Rerum Novarum, Catholic Social Teaching (CST) might be back in an even stronger way. Hence, there were great expectations for the apostolic exhortation, Dilexi…
Shah Faisal Mosque, Islamabad, Pakistan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). The Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s legal system presents a distinctive pluralistic model, intertwining secular common law inherited from British colonial rule with Islamic jurisprudence, or fiqh, under a single constitutional framework. The 1973 Constitution declares Islam as the state religion and mandates that all…