…Supreme Court decided that Amish youth (belonging to a traditionalist sect rooted in Swiss-German Anabaptist Christianity) did not have to attend public school after eighth grade (approximately age thirteen), despite…
“What We Owe the Democracy: Martin Luther King, Jr., the Right to Vote, and the Call to Civic Duty” by Atiba R. Ellis
…also empowerment for both the individual voter and the community of African American voters to implement the mandate dictated by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education,…
“A Russian Conception of Legal Consciousness” by Randall A. Poole
…Soloviev’s case) who believed that Christianity could help remedy what Novgorodtsev diagnosed as the “crisis in modern legal consciousness” by reorienting that consciousness toward the supreme value of law: the…
“Why Are Jehovah’s Witnesses Persecuted?” by Mathew N. Schmalz
…was not truly a pacifist. The government’s argument was rejected by the Court. Jehovah’s Witnesses were also stigmatized for refusing to salute the flag. The Supreme Court held in a…
“Why Corporate Religious Exemptions Are Not Corporate Social Responsibility” by Elizabeth Sepper and James D. Nelson
…or practice unless it imposes an undue hardship on the business. While the Supreme Court has construed “undue hardship” to mean anything more than “de minimis” burdens on business, corporations…
“The Chorister’s Tale: Religious Freedom Analogies in the COVID Pandemic” by M. Christian Green
…pandemic church attendance as a matter of religious freedom, and a Louisiana pastor has recently taken his resistance to civil authority to such extremity that the United States Supreme Court…
“Advanced Introduction to Law and Religion” by Frank S. Ravitch
…during a pandemic? The United States Supreme Court initially held that states should have broad leeway during a pandemic to restrict gatherings where people may stay inside a single location…
“Polygamy in a Time of Pandemic: Hard Times Ahead” by Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif
…by granting legal authority for the court to freeze or seize the husband’s assets if they fail to provide alimony. However, the prolonged closure of all courts during this pandemic…
“The Right of Self-Defense and the Organic Unity of Human Rights – Part IV” by David Little
…progressive introduction of free education” (paragraphs 2(b) and (c)). It appears that requirements are less discretionary for implementing primary education than for secondary and higher education, but that inference is,…
“The Qur’an, Islamic Veiling, and Laïcité: French Law and Islamophobia” by James McBride
…& Farhad Khosrokhavar, The Headscarf and the Republic, in BEYOND FRENCH FEMINISMS: DEBATES ONWOMEN, POLITICS, AND CULTURE IN FRANCE, 1981–2001 61 (Roger Célestin, Eliane DalMolin, & Isabelle de Courtivron eds)….