Kellen Funk, Columbia University Law School, has published Sect and Superstition: The Protestant Framework of American Codification in the American Journal of Legal History (2024). Here is the abstract. Elite lawyers who debated codification...
Matthew Cavedon, Emory University, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, has published Las Casas’s Use of Legal Interpretive Rules at Valladolid. Here is the abstract. Who was Bartolomé de Las Casas as...
Samuel L. Bray, Notre Dame Law School, is publishing The Influence of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on the Common Law in Faith in Law, Law in Faith (Rafael Domingo, Gary S. Hauk, and Timothy...
Stanton D. Krauss, Quinnipiac University School of Law, is publishing New Light on the History of Free Exercise Exemptions: The Debates in Two Eighteenth-Century State Legislatures in volume 71 of the Catholic University Law...
Mark Weston Janis, University of Connecticut School of Law, is publishing Connecticut 1818: From Theocracy to Toleration in volume 52 of the Connecticut Law Review (2021). Here is the abstract. What accounts for the...
Seth Barrett Tillman, National University of Ireland, has published What Oath (if Any) Did Jacob Henry Take in 1809?: Deconstructing the Historical Myths at 61 American Journal of Legal History 349 (2021). Here is...
The AALS Section on Law & Religion seeks nominations for the 2022 Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship. This annual award recognizes a paper that “has made an outstanding scholarly contribution to the...
Vodou and the Law: A Literature Review Nicholas Mignanelli* The expansion of federal regulation of the healthcare industry, the legal recognition of same-sex marriage, and the rise of local and state restrictions on public...
Nathan Ristuccia, Georgetown University Law Center, has published Enlightening Sacrament: English History and the Religious Test Clause. Here is the abstract. The unamended text of the United States’ original 1788 Constitution contains only one...
The Men of the Night’s Watch: What Game of Thrones can teach us about Asceticism, Cenobite Monasticism, and Equality Christoph Bezemek Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until...
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