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Click here to view full article at brnow.org A U.S. Air Force colonel and devout Christian suspended and denied promotion after refusing to affirm same-sex marriage has won a legal appeal to reverse the disciplinary actions against him. Col. Leland Bohannon was restored April 3 to his military position and…
Click here to view full article at www.bpnews.net ARLINGTON, Va. (BP) — A U.S. Air Force colonel and devout Christian suspended and denied promotion after refusing to affirm same-sex marriage has won a legal appeal to reverse the disciplinary actions against him. Leland Bohannon Col. Leland Bohannon was restored today…
Click here to view full article at forward.com Lori Windham (R), senior counsel for The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, joins supporters in front of the Supreme Court after the decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores June 30, 2014 in Washington, DC. The First Amendment to the Constitution forbids…
Click here to view full article at religionclause.blogspot.com From SSRN: Josef Hien & Christian Joerges, Dead Man Walking: Current European Interest in the Ordoliberal Tradition , (EUI Department of Law Research Paper No. 2018/03 (2018)). Robert T. Miller, What is a Compelling Governmental Interest?, (Journal of Morality and Markets, (Forthcoming)).…
Click here to view full article at cruxnow.com A group of Little Sisters of the Poor are joined by other women as they walk down the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington in 2016 after attending oral arguments in the Zubik v. Burwell contraceptive mandate case. (Credit: CNS…
Click here to view full article at www.lawandreligionuk.com More answers to readers’ queries and comments Below is a further compilation of “Quick Answers” to questions which have arisen from searches of, or comments during the past couple of weeks, providing links to our blog posts addressing these issues. As before,…
Here is another new book that addresses the impact of culture on law, The Judiciary’s Class War (Encounter Books), by University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds. As I wrote in Monday’s post, cultural values profoundly American influence church-state law. Reynolds, who also hosts the InstaPundit blog, points out…
I don’t know too much about the subject, but the description of this new book on the history of economics from Princeton University Press caught my attention. The Moral Economists: R.H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E.P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism , by Cambridge historian Tim Rogan, recounts the criticisms…
We are delayed in noticing this book by Yves Gingras, a historian of science, concerning the very popular idea of “dialogue” between religion and science. Gingras takes the unfashionable view that there may be nothing much to talk about in Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue (Wiley Press). Indeed, “dialogue”…
Books Samuel Moyn, Christian Human Rights. Hardcover | Kindle Mark A. Smith, Secular Faith: How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics. Amazon | Kindle Articles Ruth Colker, Religious Accommodations for County Clerks?, Ohio State Law Journal 76, (2015). Richard W. Garnett, The Freedom of the Church: (Toward) an Exposition, Translation, and Defense. Michael Harper, Distinguishing Disparate Treatment from…
The Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and Cambridge University has begun a new book series on law and Christianity. The series will be writing by top scholars from around the world to address such topics as religious freedom, human rights, church law, the role of natural law theory, church-state…
Religion Clause blog has a nice list of articles addressing the interaction between religion and law. Some of the more interesting ones (to me): Jennifer Carr, Complicity and Collection: Religious Freedom and Tax, (University of St. Thomas Law Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 183, Spring 2014). Robert D. Goldstein, The Structural Wall…
This book is the first English translation of a number of Voltaire’s pamphlets which argued for the freeing of law-making from religion. Voltaire criticized what he saw in the Catholic Church as an “oppressive orthodoxy” and its effect on laws. The result, in his opinion, resulted in a lack of freedom of conscience and expression.…
I just received notice of this forthcoming book on religion and law. It is a collection of essays which address legal subjects and issue through an moral evaluation of the laws based on Catholic theology. “The moral evaluative perspective which unfolds in succeeding pages illumines, justifies, and critiques America’s laws.” (From the Forward by…
I read Letters to a Law Student by Nicholas J. McBride before I began my degree. It was a nice introduction to law as a field of study. Part of what made it useful was the format that the author chose: it is written as if it is a series of twenty letters…
When I was thinking about pursuing a law degree, before I applied to any programs, I decide to take six months and read law textbook, to get a feel for the field and to determine if it was really something I wanted to pursue. So I asked a number of by friends…
Thirty attorneys were commissioned by the American Bar Association; each was asked to name one book they thought all attorneys and law students should read. Here is the list (minus duplicates). My Life in Court by Louis Nizer Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century by Michael Hiltzik 1861:…
I have found this book quite helpful in translating my scholarly research and writing skills into legal research and writing skills. Though intended as a textbook for courses, I have also found it a nice resource in my part-time job as a law clerk at a firm. The authors have…