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“When the State Tells You How to Run Your Church Service: Analyzing Coronavirus Guidance Documents on Religious Services” by Dwight Newman

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Newman, Dwight, October 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom

Photo of cells by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Public Domain) A virtual conference organized in partnership with Brigham Young University Law School, Emory University Law School, Notre Dame Law School, St. John’s University School of Law, and the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. View the full video and browse all essays here.…

“Commemorating Lives Lost in Times of Pandemic and Protest” by Angela C. Carmella

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesCarmella, Angela C., Ethics, October 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom

“Religious Liberty in a Pandemic: Constitutional Challenges to Mass Gathering Bans” by Caroline Mala Corbin

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Corbin, Caroline Mala, October 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom

“Hands-Off Religion in the Early Months of COVID-19” by Samuel J. Levine

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Levine, Samuel J., October 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom

“Conflicts Between Religious Liberty and the New Public Health” by Jeffrey B. Hammond and Michael J. DeBoer

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Constitutional Law, DeBoer, Michael J., Hammond, Jeffrey B., October 2020, Politics

“Religious Exceptions to COVID Vaccine Mandates” by Doriane Lambelet Coleman

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesColeman, Doriane Lambelet, Ethics, Health Law, October 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom

“The Beauty of Disobedience” by Stephen S. Bush

Sep 30, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysBush, Stephen, Ethics, Politics, Religious Freedom, September 2020

Photo by Teemu Paananen on Unsplash Political Beauty On June 27, 2015, ten days after a white supremacist shot and killed nine African Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina, Bree Newsome Bass began pulling herself up a thirty-foot tall flag pole at the South Carolina State Capitol. With the…

“Does Biblical Literacy Enrich Constitutional Literacy? The Bible’s Forgotten Influence on the American Constitutional Tradition” by Daniel L. Dreisbach

Sep 23, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Constitutional Law, Dreisbach, Daniel L., History, Politics, September 2020

Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash This article is part of our “Law, Religion, and the Constitutionalism” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The American Constitution drew on diverse intellectual traditions. Among the influences constitutional scholars and political theorists have identified and studied are English common law and…

“Divine Sovereignty, Popular Sovereignty, and the Dilemma of American Constitutionalism” by Sanford Levinson

Sep 17, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesHuman Rights / Civil Rights, Levinson, Sanford, Politics, Religious Freedom, September 2020

Photo by Dyana Wing So on Unsplash This article is part of our “Law, Religion, and the Constitutionalism” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. By wonderful happenstance, this year’s Constitution Day (Thursday, September 17) occurs just two days before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and one of…

“Constitutional Basic Values and the Religion Clauses” by Alan Brownstein

Sep 16, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesBrownstein, Alan, Constitutional Law, Politics, Religious Freedom, September 2020

Photo by Jesse Collins on Unsplash This article is part of our “Law, Religion, and the Constitutionalism” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The meaning of the religion clauses in judicial opinions has changed dramatically over the last 150 years. Doctrine has shifted, sometimes precipitously. The case law…