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Formalism In Jewish Law, Chaim Saiman Oct 2025

Formalism In Jewish Law, Chaim Saiman

Faculty Publications

Scholars differ as to the degree to which Jewish law is formalistic. This chapter aims to make sense of the debate surrounding formalism in Jewish law by distinguishing between three types of legal formalism: classic formalism, modern formalism, and detail-following formalism. Viewed through the lens of modern formalism, Jewish law is likely less formalistic than commonly assumed as it is not primarily concerned with constraining decision makers. Nor is Jewish legal discourse typified by its unified conceptual schemas that proceed from abstract concepts to bottom-line decisions in the way that classical formalism proceeds. This chapter introduces an alternative framing termed …


Reforming The Ministerial Exception, Paul E. Mcgreal Apr 2024

Reforming The Ministerial Exception, Paul E. Mcgreal

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Keeping Kosher In The Age Of Ai, Chaim Saiman Mar 2024

Keeping Kosher In The Age Of Ai, Chaim Saiman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Contingency And Contestation In Christianity And Liberalism, Michael P. Moreland Jun 2023

Contingency And Contestation In Christianity And Liberalism, Michael P. Moreland

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


An Easy Sell: The Third Circuit Protects Religious Advertising In Colts V. Freethought, William Zachary Mineo Feb 2022

An Easy Sell: The Third Circuit Protects Religious Advertising In Colts V. Freethought, William Zachary Mineo

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Religiously Motivated Conduct And The Reasonable Accommodation Requirement Under Title Vii: A New Framework For Analysis, Robin Knauer Maril Dec 2021

Religiously Motivated Conduct And The Reasonable Accommodation Requirement Under Title Vii: A New Framework For Analysis, Robin Knauer Maril

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Taking Conflicting Rights Seriously, Netta Barak-Corren Sep 2020

Taking Conflicting Rights Seriously, Netta Barak-Corren

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Introductory Remarks To The 2019 Shachoy Symposium, Daniel Mark Jan 2020

Introductory Remarks To The 2019 Shachoy Symposium, Daniel Mark

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Reading Halakhah As A Secularist, Sanford Levinson Jan 2020

Reading Halakhah As A Secularist, Sanford Levinson

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Jurisprudence, Halakhah, And Moral Particularism, Amy J. Sepinwall Jan 2020

Jurisprudence, Halakhah, And Moral Particularism, Amy J. Sepinwall

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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"Turn It And Turn It, For All Is In It": Reflections On Chaim Saiman's Halakhah:The Rabbinic Idea Of Law, Cathleen Kaveny Jan 2020

"Turn It And Turn It, For All Is In It": Reflections On Chaim Saiman's Halakhah:The Rabbinic Idea Of Law, Cathleen Kaveny

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Halakhah Between Historicism And Dogmatism, Christine Hayes Jan 2020

Halakhah Between Historicism And Dogmatism, Christine Hayes

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Defining Law, Tal Kastner Jan 2020

Defining Law, Tal Kastner

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


The Expressive Power Of Rabbinic Law, Richard H. Mcadams Jan 2020

The Expressive Power Of Rabbinic Law, Richard H. Mcadams

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Implications Of The Rabbinic Idea Of Law For The History Of Halakhah: Dialetics,Apologetics, Fractalization?, Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg Jan 2020

Implications Of The Rabbinic Idea Of Law For The History Of Halakhah: Dialetics,Apologetics, Fractalization?, Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Temple,Talmud, And Sacrament: Some Christian Thoughts On Halakhah, Nathan B. Oman Jan 2020

Temple,Talmud, And Sacrament: Some Christian Thoughts On Halakhah, Nathan B. Oman

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Review Of Chaim Saiman's The Rabbinic Idea Of Law, Suzanne Last Stone Jan 2020

Review Of Chaim Saiman's The Rabbinic Idea Of Law, Suzanne Last Stone

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Binaries: Remarks On Chaim N. Saiman's "Halakhah", Richard H. Weisberg Jan 2020

Binaries: Remarks On Chaim N. Saiman's "Halakhah", Richard H. Weisberg

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


The Primitive Lawyer Speaks!: Thoughts On The Concepts Of International And Rabbinic Laws, Harlan Grant Cohen Jan 2020

The Primitive Lawyer Speaks!: Thoughts On The Concepts Of International And Rabbinic Laws, Harlan Grant Cohen

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


The Challenge Of Halakhah, Kevin L. Hughes Jan 2020

The Challenge Of Halakhah, Kevin L. Hughes

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


The Pre-History Of Subsidiarity In Leo Xiii, Michael P. Moreland Jan 2018

The Pre-History Of Subsidiarity In Leo Xiii, Michael P. Moreland

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Donald A. Gianella Memorial Lecture - What Is Religious "Persecution" In A Pluralist Society?, Susan J. Stabile Sep 2014

Donald A. Gianella Memorial Lecture - What Is Religious "Persecution" In A Pluralist Society?, Susan J. Stabile

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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The Liberty Of The Church: Source, Scope And Scandal, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Oct 2013

The Liberty Of The Church: Source, Scope And Scandal, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

This article was presented at a conference, and is part of a symposium, on "The Freedom of the Church in the Modern Era." The article argues that the liberty of the Church, libertas Ecclesiae, is not a mere metaphor, pace the views of some other contributions to the conference and symposium and of the mentality mostly prevailing over the last five hundred years. The argument is that the Church and her directly God-given rights are ontologically irreducible in a way that the rights of, say, the state of California or even of the United States are not. Based on a …


Resisting The Grand Coalition In Favor Of The Status Quo By Giving Full Scope To The Libertas Ecclesiae, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Sep 2013

Resisting The Grand Coalition In Favor Of The Status Quo By Giving Full Scope To The Libertas Ecclesiae, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

This paper argues that questions about "religious freedom" must be subordinated to the fundamental principle of the liberty of the Church, libertas Ecclesiae. The First Amendment's agnosticism with respect to the liberty of the Church is not ultimately normative. Catholics and others who merely seek religious "accommodation," as with the HHS mandate, for example, are agents of a status quo that illegitimately has comfortable self-preservation as its highest value. It is Catholic doctrine that "creation was for the sake of the Church," not for the sake of, say, religious freedom. The paper argues that the contingent constitution of …


“Religious Freedom,” The Individual Mandate, And Gifts: On Why The Church Is Not A Bomb Shelter, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Jul 2013

“Religious Freedom,” The Individual Mandate, And Gifts: On Why The Church Is Not A Bomb Shelter, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

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The Health and Human Services' regulatory requirement that all but a narrow set of "religious" employers provide contraceptives to employees is an example of what Robert Post and Nancy Rosenblum refer to as a growing "congruence" between civil society's values and the state's legally enacted policy. Catholics and many others have resisted the HHS requirement on the ground that it violates "religious freedom." They ask (in the words of Cardinal Dolan) to be "left alone" by the state. But the argument to be "left alone" overlooks or suppresses the fact that the Catholic Church understands that it is its role …


“The Pursuit Of Happiness” Comes Home To Roost? Same-Sex Union, The Summum Bonum, And Equality, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Jul 2013

“The Pursuit Of Happiness” Comes Home To Roost? Same-Sex Union, The Summum Bonum, And Equality, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

John Locke understood human happiness to amount to the removal of "uneasiness." This paper argues that,to the extent that the United States is a nation dedicated to "the pursuit of happiness" understood as the removal of "uneasiness," same-sex unions or marriages should be given legal recognition. While Locke defended a variation on traditional marriage on the grounds of progenitiveness and care for dependent offspring, his more foundational commitment to the importance of the removal of uneasiness precludes, on pain of inconsistency, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples. This paper argues, furthermore, that conservatives and neo-conservatives who celebrate this nation's being …


"Religious Freedom," The Individual Mandate, And Gifts: On Why The Church Is Not A Bomb Shelter, Patrick Mckinley Brennan May 2013

"Religious Freedom," The Individual Mandate, And Gifts: On Why The Church Is Not A Bomb Shelter, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


No Compelling Interest: The "Birth Control" Mandate And Religious Freedom, Helen M. Alvare May 2013

No Compelling Interest: The "Birth Control" Mandate And Religious Freedom, Helen M. Alvare

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


The Mighty Work Of Making Nations Happy: A Response To James Davison Hunter, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Jan 2013

The Mighty Work Of Making Nations Happy: A Response To James Davison Hunter, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

This article is an invited response to James Davison Hunter’s much-discussed book To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2010). Hunter, a sociologist at UVA and a believing Protestant, claims that law’s capacity to contribute to social change is “mostly illusory” and that Christians, therefore, should practice “faithful presence” in the public square rather than seek to influence law directly. My response is that it is, in fact, law’s stunning ability to alter and limit available choices that makes it an object of deservedly fierce contest. The wild …


Subsidiarity In The Tradition Of Catholic Social Doctrine, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Nov 2012

Subsidiarity In The Tradition Of Catholic Social Doctrine, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

This chapter is an invited contribution to the first English-language comparative study of subsidiarity, M. Evans and A. Zimmerman (eds.), Subsidiarity in Comparative Perspective (forthcoming Springer, 2013). The concept of subsidiarity does work in many and varied legal contexts today, but the concept originated in Catholic social doctrine. The Catholic understanding of subsidiarity (or subsidiary function) is the subject of this chapter. Subsidiarity is often described as a norm calling for the devolution of power or for performing social functions at the lowest possible level. In Catholic social doctrine, it is neither. Subsidiarity is the fixed and immovable ontological principle …