In a perhaps somewhat contrapuntal response to the provocation to see the broader world differently than we may otherwise, as…
Social drama, universalisms’ political violence, and transnational law
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Looking imperial universalism in the eye
In his study of the jihad in Bosnia, Darryl Li performs what might be considered a “radical” move of his…
The necropolitical law of assassination
With extraterritorial, extrajudicial assassination normalized, and law’s foundational protection of human life selectively discarded, we are witnessing the unfolding of…
Why religion is different: Five contradictions of religion in law
Tamir Moustafa’s Constituting Religion incisively reveals both the enduring and disturbing impacts of constitutional law on the ways Malaysians imagine…
Conversion and demographic anxieties
For readers interested in Islamic law and society, and especially for those who might not have thought that Malaysia is…
Liberal rights and religious rites
While Constituting Religion provides a detailed case study of Malaysia, the argument Moustafa develops has important implications for much of…
Amid the waves of the sex abuse crisis
The fact remains that vulnerability and recognition operate on time binds that are both incommensurable and disproportionate to the ways…
A matter of justice, not merely chastity
How will the encounter with the hard edges of American law reshape Catholic doctrine on sexual morality, which governs not…
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…
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…