Religious Law and Legal Systems Archives

“The Muslim Family Law Reform: Exploring Cross-National and Historical Differences” by Yüksel Sezgin

Oct 9, 2024Canopy ForumEssaysFamily Law, Islam, October 2024, Religious Law and Legal Systems, Sezgin, Yüksel

Illustration commissioned for this project by Tahira Rifath Fifty-three nations (35 Muslim-majority, 18 Muslim-minority) formally integrate shari‘a-based Muslim Family Laws (MFLs) into their domestic legal systems and enforce them through state-run (religious or civil) courts adjudicating familial disputes among their Muslim citizens. State-enforced MFLs often violate people’s fundamental rights and liberties. For example, in many…

“The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law” by John Witte, Jr. & Rafael Domingo

Jan 22, 2024Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, Domingo, Rafael, January 2024, Politics, Religious Ethics, Religious Law and Legal Systems, Witte Jr., John

The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and LawJohn Witte, Jr. and Rafael Domingo This text is excerpted in part from the front matter of the Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law, edited by John Witte, Jr. and Rafael Domingo (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023) and is used herein with permission. This hefty new volume, over…

“Law, Religion & Abortion Law of the United States: A Jewish View” by Michael J. Broyde

Sep 26, 2022Canopy ForumSeriesBroyde, Michael J., Healthcare, Judaism, Religious Law and Legal Systems, September 2022

Picture by Annie Spratt on Unsplash. This article is part of our “Kennedy, Carson, and Dobbs: Law and Religion in Pressing Supreme Court Cases” series. If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Note: This work is a profoundly revised version intended to be accessible to a secular audience of a…

“The Role of Lawyers in Rabbinic Arbitration” by Chaim Saiman

May 27, 2022Canopy ForumSeriesJudaism, May 2022, Religious Freedom, Religious Law and Legal Systems, Saiman, Chaim

Photo of Manhattan by wiggijo on Pixabay (CC0) A virtual conference sponsored by Canopy Forum of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory (CSLR) featuring scholars, experts and practitioners on the topic of religious arbitration. View the full video and browse all essays here. “The Role of Lawyers in Rabbinic Arbitration” Chaim…

“Limiting Oppression: Duress and Unconscionability in Islamic Law” by Rabea Benhalim

Apr 7, 2022Canopy ForumSeriesApril 2022, Benhalim, Rabea, Islam, Religious Freedom, Religious Law and Legal Systems

Photo of Manhattan by wiggijo on Pixabay (CC0) A virtual conference sponsored by Canopy Forum of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory (CSLR) featuring scholars, experts and practitioners on the topic of religious arbitration. View the full video and browse all essays here. “Limiting Oppression: Duress and Unconscionability in Islamic Law”…

“Of Bans, Sin, and Reconciliation” by M. Christian Green

Apr 15, 2021Canopy ForumEssaysApril 2021, Christianity, Green, Healthcare, M. Christian, Politics, Religious Law and Legal Systems

Photo by Shifaaz shamoon on Unsplash. This article is part of our “Law and Religion Under Pressure: A One-Year Pandemic Retrospective” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Following the murder of eight people in Atlanta, six of them Asian-American women, news broke that the killer Robert Aaron Long had…

“Human Struggle: Christian and Muslim Perspectives” by Mona Siddiqui

Mar 19, 2021Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, Ethics, Islam, March 2021, Mona, Philosophy, Religious Law and Legal Systems, Siddiqui

Human Struggle: Christian and Muslim PerspectivesMona Siddiqui In this section from chapter two of Human Struggle: Christian and Muslim Perspectives, Professor Siddiqui compares how Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and Rainer Maria Rilke wrote ‘letters’ to a younger student in which both men express their intellectual restlessness and search for faith, meaning and salvation. Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali…

“The ‘Drive Confession’: The Care of Souls at the Time of the Pandemic” by Daniela Tarantino

Oct 2, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesCatholicism, Christianity, Human Rights / Civil Rights, October 2020, Religious Law and Legal Systems, Tarantino, Daniela

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.…

“REVIEW: Church Laws and Ecumenism edited by Norman Doe” by John Witte, Jr.

Oct 1, 2020Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, History, October 2020, Religious Law and Legal Systems, Witte Jr., John

Church Laws and Ecumenism: A New Path for Christian Unity edited by Norman Doe Review by John Witte, Jr. Law is the backbone of Christian ecclesiology and ecumenism. That is the central message of this collection of well-written and well-integrated chapters on church law by scholars of a dozen global Christian churches. And that has…

“Don’t Write off Sharia’s Forgiveness Option Just Because of the Khashoggi Case” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Sep 11, 2020Canopy ForumConvictionCavedon, Matthew P., Criminal Law, Islam, Religious Law and Legal Systems, September 2020

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “Don’t Write off Sharia’s Forgiveness Option Just Because of the Khashoggi Case” Matthew P. Cavedon Jamal Khashoggi was a prominent international journalist and Saudi dissident. He was tortured to death and dismembered in 2018 at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul. On September 7, eight Saudis were sentenced for…