How will the encounter with the hard edges of American law reshape Catholic doctrine on sexual morality, which governs not…
A matter of justice, not merely chastity
law and religion
The myth of secular law as savior
Like the good religion/bad religion dichotomy familiar to religious studies scholars, the good law/bad law dichotomy structures implicit judgments of…
Abuse crisis: Shifting boundaries between church and state
The meaning and the consequences of the abuse crisis will be far-reaching and it will take a long time to…
Sex and the Catholic Church: What does law have to do with it? Introduction
This series of essays aims to open up, with respect to the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, the…
Religion and hate speech
Many recent hate speech cases involve religion either as the source of views that are alleged to be hateful or…
Niqab, sunglasses, and the sincerity of belief
Haunted by its Roman Catholic background and still horrorstruck by last year’s mosque shooting, Québec, the French-speaking province of Canada,…
Is Masterpiece Cakeshop a church?
Where is the religion in this case and what kind of religion is it?
Islamic law from below: Between trust and distrust
Rumee Ahmed’s Sharia Compliant begins with a letter to his Muslim readers. The Arabic term for “letter” is risala, a…
Fluid indigeneity: Indians, Catholicism, and Spanish law in the mutable Americas
In this forum, “indigeneity” faces off against European “settler colonialism.” If the twenty-first century mode of conceptualizing indigenous resistance to…
From the Founders to Trump: The legalities of “Muslims”
Writing about the image of the “Muslim” at America’s founding, Denise Spellberg writes how debates on religious tests for office…