…restrictions on religious gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Disagreement over the terms of such regulation is at the heart of last week’s Supreme Court decision, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn,…
“AI and Jewish Law: Seeing How ChatGPT 4.0 Looks at a Novel Issue – Part II” by Michael J. Broyde
…who think of themselves like Supreme Court justices by being able to change the rules as applied, but nothing like the Courts of Appeals judges in the United States, who…
“What’s the Story with the First U.S. Court Case on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting?” by Kristina Arriaga
…not take an official position on FGM/C. Recommended Citation Arriaga, Kristina. “What’s the Story with the First U.S. Court Case on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting?” Canopy Forum, October 1, 2019. https://canopyforum.org/2019/10/01/the-first-us-court-case-on-fgmc-by-kristina-arriaga/…
“The Danger of “Anti-Sharia” Legislation to Religious Arbitration — And Not Just by Muslims” by Asma Uddin
…And any time an arbitration decision is brought to a court for enforcement, the court checks to make sure the decision is fair by asking questions like: Does it violate…
“A ‘Bradburian Era’: Media, Technology, and Censorship During the Coronavirus” by Mark Edward Blankenship Jr.
…to author J.K. Rowling’s views of transgenderism. Yet book burning is a form of symbolic speech that is protected under the First Amendment. In 1990, the Supreme Court in Texas…
“Chinese Persecution of the Uyghur: A Case of Genocide” by Ali Çaksu
…authorities call “reeducation camps.” Naturally, the reeducation mentioned here, also referred to by the regime as “thought transformation,” is simply brainwashing. In the camps, Chinese authorities brainwash Uyghurs to deny…
“Re-centering the Religious Freedom v. Public Health Debate” by Faraz Sanei
…have played in the development of religious freedom jurisprudence12One of the most celebrated religious freedom (and free speech) opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court concerns a Jehovah’s Witness’s challenge to…
“Australian Jurists and Christianity” by Geoff Lindsay and Wayne Hudson
…Supreme Courts exercising equity jurisdiction (formerly exercised by England’s Lord Chancellor) and probate jurisdiction (formerly exercised by England’s Ecclesiastical Courts). Those jurisdictions uncontroversially owe historical debts to the Christian clergy…
“From Doctrine to Proclamation: How Faith Still Frames U.S. Indian Policy” by Kerri J. Malloy
…U.S. Supreme Court decided Johnson v. M’Intosh, the case that enshrined the Doctrine of Discovery into American law. Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that the United States had inherited from…
“On the Division of Rights” by John Milbank
…there should be no courts of rights distinguished from courts of justice, any more than we should see courts of law as utterly different from legislating bodies, after the American…