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Universals And Particulars: A Comment On Women's Human Rights And Religious Marriage Contracts, Carol Weisbrod Oct 1999

Universals And Particulars: A Comment On Women's Human Rights And Religious Marriage Contracts, Carol Weisbrod

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Limitations On Religious Rights: Problematizing Religious Freedom In The African Context, Makau Wa Mutua Sep 1999

Limitations On Religious Rights: Problematizing Religious Freedom In The African Context, Makau Wa Mutua

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

No abstract provided.


Religious Human Rights In Global Perspective, Isabel Marcus Sep 1999

Religious Human Rights In Global Perspective, Isabel Marcus

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

Book review of Johan van der Vyver & John Witte, Jr.'s Religious human Rights in Global Perspective


Using The Religion Clauses To Secure Religious Liberty (Review Of Securing Religious Liberty, By Jesse Choper), Jared Goff Sep 1999

Using The Religion Clauses To Secure Religious Liberty (Review Of Securing Religious Liberty, By Jesse Choper), Jared Goff

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Believer's First Amendment (Review Of Separating Church And State, By Timothy L. Hall), Marcus Mumford Sep 1999

The Believer's First Amendment (Review Of Separating Church And State, By Timothy L. Hall), Marcus Mumford

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Legislating Religious Liberty: The Ghanaian Experience, E. K. Quashigah May 1999

Legislating Religious Liberty: The Ghanaian Experience, E. K. Quashigah

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Religious Liberty And Cultural And Ethnic Pluralism In The Colombian Constitution Of 1991, Viviane A. Morales Hoyos May 1999

Religious Liberty And Cultural And Ethnic Pluralism In The Colombian Constitution Of 1991, Viviane A. Morales Hoyos

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Protecting The Weak: Religious Liberty In The Twenty-First Century, Gordon Smith May 1999

Protecting The Weak: Religious Liberty In The Twenty-First Century, Gordon Smith

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Antecedents, Perspectives, And Projections Of A Legal Project About Religious Liberty In Peru, Guillermo Garcta-Montufar, Elvira Martinez Coco May 1999

Antecedents, Perspectives, And Projections Of A Legal Project About Religious Liberty In Peru, Guillermo Garcta-Montufar, Elvira Martinez Coco

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Legislative Focus: The International And Religious Freedom Act Of 1998, Tom Lynch Jan 1999

Legislative Focus: The International And Religious Freedom Act Of 1998, Tom Lynch

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Leveling The Playing Field For Religious "Liberty" In Russia:, Afina Lekhel Jan 1999

Leveling The Playing Field For Religious "Liberty" In Russia:, Afina Lekhel

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The purpose of this Note is to present a more comprehensive framework for analyzing the status of religious human rights in Russia after the enactment of the new law. Following the insights of an eminent scholar on law and religion, Prof. Harold J. Berman, the topic may be evaluated with a view to positive law (Zakon), moral theory (Pravo), and Russian historical experiences. Generally, positive law refers to domestic legal norms. Moral theory also stems primarily from domestic supra-legal sources, but it may connote global human rights principles where a state subscribes to monism, as Russia currently does. Historical contingencies …


The World’S Youngest Political Prisoner, Richard Klein Jan 1999

The World’S Youngest Political Prisoner, Richard Klein

Scholarly Works

Every participant at an international human rights conference in June 1998 received a small pamphlet published by Tibetan supporters of Tibetan Buddhism's highest-ranking figure, the Dalai Lama. Entitled "The World's Youngest Political Prisoner," the pamphlet makes a plea for support for a young boy, now nine years old, who the Chinese government has allegedly kidnapped and detained. The Dalai Lama, who has been living in exile for forty years, claims the boy is the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second holiest individual in Tibetan Buddhism. This battle over the identification of the reincarnation of a holy man is …


Freedom Of Religion In Public Schools In Germany And In The United States, Inke Muehlhoff Jan 1999

Freedom Of Religion In Public Schools In Germany And In The United States, Inke Muehlhoff

LLM Theses and Essays

Unfortunately, in terms of religions, the strict neutrality is almost impossible to reach and most countries that have adopted such a principle still face religious conflicts. However, these conflicts have shifted from armed conflicts to legal conflicts and battles of words, which offer at least a more peaceful way to fight. One major battleground for these religious conflicts concerns the role of religion in the public school system. That battleground is the subject of this thesis. The discussion of how religion should be treated in the public school system will be based on a comparison between Germany and the United …