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Constitutional Law

Selected Works

Selected Works

2014

Law & Religion

Articles 1 - 5 of 5

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Hobby Lobby's Challenge To Officialdom's 'Compelling Interest', Michael Helfand Jul 2014

Hobby Lobby's Challenge To Officialdom's 'Compelling Interest', Michael Helfand

Michael A Helfand

No abstract provided.


The Murkiness Of The Hobby Lobby Ruling, Michael Helfand Jun 2014

The Murkiness Of The Hobby Lobby Ruling, Michael Helfand

Michael A Helfand

No abstract provided.


America Doesn't See Its Religious Minorities, Michael Helfand May 2014

America Doesn't See Its Religious Minorities, Michael Helfand

Michael A Helfand

No abstract provided.


Implied Consent: A Proposal On For-Profit Conscience, Michael Helfand Mar 2014

Implied Consent: A Proposal On For-Profit Conscience, Michael Helfand

Michael A Helfand

No abstract provided.


Beit Din's Gap-Filling Function: Using Beit Din To Protect Your Client, Michael A. Helfand Dec 2013

Beit Din's Gap-Filling Function: Using Beit Din To Protect Your Client, Michael A. Helfand

Michael A Helfand

This article considers how rabbinical courts play an important gap-filling role by providing parties with a forum to adjudicate a subset of religious disputes that could not be resolved in court. Under current constitutional doctrine, civil courts cannot adjudicate disputes that turn on religious doctrine and practice. By contrast, rabbinical courts can resolve such disputes--and the decisions of rabbinical courts can then be enforced by civil courts even as those same civil courts could not resolve the dispute in the first instance. In this way, rabbinical courts--like other religious arbitration tribunals--fill a void created by constitutional law, ensuring that parties …