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The Evolution Of Iranian Islamism From The Revolution Through The Contemporary Reformers, Jeffrey Usman
The Evolution Of Iranian Islamism From The Revolution Through The Contemporary Reformers, Jeffrey Usman
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Note explores the evolution and maturation of Iranian Islamism from the revolutionary elites through the contemporary reformers of the 21st century. The Author examines the conflicting ideological influences that are shaping the Islamist movement in Iran. This Note begins by presenting the framework of the fundamental contradictions that underlie Iranian Islamist ideology. The analysis of the Iranian Constitution is divided into an exploration of the institutional role of the clerical elites in the form of the faqih and the Council of Guardians, the constitutionally defined role of women, the democratic elements in the Iranian Constitution, and Marxism and environmentalism …
The Forest And The Trees, Lisa Schultz Bressman
The Forest And The Trees, Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Ask those who carefully follow the Supreme Court, and they will tell you that--for good or bad, depending on their perspective--the current Supreme Court has reduced to near rubble the metaphorical wall separating church and state.
Book Review, Steven D. Smith, Reviewer
Book Review, Steven D. Smith, Reviewer
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Surely none of the following essays addresses or explores these claims and questions in any deliberate way. Nonetheless, in these opening pages, it seems that Ahdar is seeking to re-engage the questions that characterized the Western tradition from which our modern issues in law and religion descend, but which that tradition in its modern form has by now largely suppressed. The implication, it seems, is that in order to address the issues of the interaction of law and religion in an efficacious way, we must not only acknowledge that religion is a social phenomenon--although it is that, as Professor van …