Lawrence V. Texas: The Decision And Its Implications For The Future,
2014
Touro Law Center
Lawrence V. Texas: The Decision And Its Implications For The Future, Martin A. Schwartz
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Scholarly And Scientific Boycotts Of Israel: Abusing The Academic Enterprise,
2014
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Scholarly And Scientific Boycotts Of Israel: Abusing The Academic Enterprise, Kenneth Lasson
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
First Amendment Cases In The October 2004 Term,
2014
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
First Amendment Cases In The October 2004 Term, Joel M. Gora
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Quasi-Rights For Quasi-Religious Organizations: A New Framework Resolving The Religious-Secular Dichotomy After Burwell V. Hobby Lobby,
2014
Notre Dame Law School
Quasi-Rights For Quasi-Religious Organizations: A New Framework Resolving The Religious-Secular Dichotomy After Burwell V. Hobby Lobby, Krista M. Pikus
Notre Dame Law Review Reflection
This Comment aims to break free of the limiting religious-secular dichotomy by proposing a “quasi-religious” classification in order to achieve a more nuanced assignment of corporate religious exercise rights. Part I addresses the current legal standard for classifying organizations as religious and how the Hobby Lobby decision engaged that standard. Part II identifies and discusses the problems with the religious-secular dichotomy. Lastly, Part III proposes a new solution to the problem of corporate religious exercise rights that transcends the limitations of the religious-secular dichotomy and may also bring clarity to the Hobby Lobby decision.
Coming Up Short: The United States' Second-Best Strategies For Corralling Purely Speculative Derivatives,
2014
University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Law
Coming Up Short: The United States' Second-Best Strategies For Corralling Purely Speculative Derivatives, Timothy E. Lynch
Faculty Works
Purely speculative derivatives (PSDs) are derivatives in which neither counterparty is engaged in hedging. Unless used for entertainment purposes, PSDs are irrational, less-than-zero-sum transactions. Entities that engage in PSDs jeopardize their stakeholders and increase systemic risk. PSDs can also increase moral hazard, be used for regulatory arbitrage, and redirect resources away from efficient allocation of market capital. PSDs should be unenforceable, void for public policy reasons, except where expressly permitted to provide gambling entertainment, enhance price discovery, or increase liquidity for hedgers. In the U.S., however, PSDs are often legal and enforceable, even after the financial crisis of 2008 that …
Religion And Insularity: Brian Leiter On Accommodating Religion,
2014
University of San Diego
Religion And Insularity: Brian Leiter On Accommodating Religion, Christopher J. Eberle
San Diego Law Review
Crucial to Leiter’s overall case is the claim that there is no credible reason to accommodate religious objectors but not secular objectors: “[N]o one has been able to articulate a credible principled argument . . . that would explain why . . . we ought to accord special legal and moral treatment to religious practices.” He reaches this skeptical conclusion, in significant part, because he takes religion to be afflicted with a troubling defect, that is, religion involves commitment to categorical demands that are insulated from scientific and commonsensical scrutiny. But, I will argue, there is no good reason to …
Religion, Conscience, And The Case For Accommodation,
2014
University of San Diego
Religion, Conscience, And The Case For Accommodation, William A. Galston
San Diego Law Review
I do not believe that religion is an obsolete constitutional category. But I do believe that the holdings in United States v. Seeger and Welsh v. United States, the Vietnam-era draft cases that extended conscientious objector status to individuals invoking nonreligious claims, were correct. Can I consistently embrace both propositions? I think I can. My argument, in brief, is that religion is indeed special. But when we understand what it is about religion that warrants both distinctive privileges and distinctive burdens, we will see that some other systems of belief track these features of religion closely enough to warrant comparable …
“Religion” As A Bundle Of Legal Proxies: Reply To Micah Schwartzman,
2014
University of San Diego
“Religion” As A Bundle Of Legal Proxies: Reply To Micah Schwartzman, Andrew Koppelman
San Diego Law Review
The debate among legal scholars about whether religion is special is chronically confused by the scholars’ failure to grasp a point familiar in the academic study of religion: “religion” is a label for something that has no ontological reality. Religion has no essence. If it has a determinate meaning, it is simply because there is a settled and familiar practice of applying the label of religion in predictable ways. The question of religious accommodation arises in cases where a law can allow some exceptions. Many laws, such as military conscription, taxes, environmental regulations, and antidiscrimination laws, will accomplish their ends …
Religion, Meaning, Truth, Life,
2014
University of San Diego
Religion, Meaning, Truth, Life, Frederick Mark Gedicks
San Diego Law Review
I am a believer, yet I will also say that it is simply not correct that only religion can offer deep meaning to life, and I can say this out of my own experience. Ordinary activities can be crucial to the meaning of one’s life, whether or not they are experienced or defined as “religious.” Though not all such activities are as morally serious as religious belief and practice, some are, and they are surely not “nihilistic” or “nothing” because they lack the character of transcendent religious truth.
How Much Autonomy Do You Want?,
2014
University of San Diego
How Much Autonomy Do You Want?, Maimon Schwarzschild
San Diego Law Review
At root, the questions of special accommodation and religious adjudicatory independence arise most urgently when a government grows in its reach and ambition. After all, if most areas of life, including those that touch on religious life, are left to people’s private arrangement, then not much special accommodation will be necessary. But when government takes control over more and more areas of life, regulating who shall do what and under what rules and conditions, then clashes with one or another religious way of life are almost inevitable. The dispute over government mandates to provide abortive drugs and contraception, in the …
Why Distinguish Religion, Legally Speaking?,
2014
University of San Diego
Why Distinguish Religion, Legally Speaking?, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
San Diego Law Review
Law professors commonly answer this critique by scholars of religion, as Andrew Koppelman does, with the comment that, after all, any ambiguity in definition only arises in a few cases. Most of the time the reference is obvious, he says. Moreover, he insists, it has worked fine for all those for whom it should work. But that is the problem—its very obviousness. The problems of exclusion are largely invisible. The reference is so obvious to many and so obviously inclusive of those who are deserving that there is no way to have a conversation about it without the conversation devolving …
Where's The Beef?,
2014
University of San Diego
Where's The Beef?, Stanley Fish
San Diego Law Review
A key concern of the papers written for this conference is the relationship between religious beliefs and secular beliefs of the kind that carry with them deep ethical obligations. Are these systems of belief essentially the same or are they different in important respects? The question is typically posed abstractly, and I thought it might be useful to have before us an example of religious belief and the demands that attend it. The example is taken from the beginning of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. Christian, Bunyan’s protagonist, has suddenly become aware that his salvation is imperiled, and he is …
Galston On Religion, Conscience, And The Case For Accommodation,
2014
University of San Diego
Galston On Religion, Conscience, And The Case For Accommodation, Larry Alexander
San Diego Law Review
So these are some reasons why political theory might dictate that religious dissenters be accommodated even though, by enacting the laws to which the dissenters object, government indicates that it believes the dissenters err. If political theory justifies religious accommodations, however, then when government acts on the basis of political theory, is it establishing a religion? Bill argues, in support of Seeger, that claims of conscience derived from moral theory can qualify for accommodations under the Free Exercise Clause. But the two religion clauses in the Constitution use the noun “religion” only once. So if claims of conscience derived from …
Religion As A Legal Proxy,
2014
University of San Diego
Religion As A Legal Proxy, Micah Schwartzman
San Diego Law Review
In what follows, after briefly summarizing Koppelman’s position, I argue that his view is vulnerable to the charge that using religion as a legal proxy is unfair to those with comparable, but otherwise secular, ethical and moral convictions. Koppelman has, of course, anticipated this objection, but his responses are either ambivalent or insufficient to overcome it. The case for adopting religion as a proxy turns partly on arguments against other potential candidates. In particular, Koppelman rejects the freedom of conscience as a possible substitute. But even if he is right that its coverage is not fully extensive with the category …
Ties That Bind? The Questionable Consent Justification For Hosanna-Tabor,
2014
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Ties That Bind? The Questionable Consent Justification For Hosanna-Tabor, Jessie Hill
NULR Online
No abstract provided.
Christian Persecution In Pakistan: An Examination Of Life In The Midst Of Violence,
2014
Liberty University
Christian Persecution In Pakistan: An Examination Of Life In The Midst Of Violence, Rebecca Seiler
Senior Honors Theses
As a nation founded on religious freedom, it is the duty of the United States to recognize those who stand up for these beliefs across the world in solidarity. International persecution of Christians has dramatically increased due to the spread of radical Islam throughout the world, particularly in South Asia. By means of active, violent persecution as well as more passive forms of aggression, daily life for Pakistani Christians is both challenging and dangerous. While there is no easy solution to this issue, it is essential to continue advocating for those facing persecution and punish the oppressors. The American church …
Law And Religion: Sharia Law And The First Amendment,
2014
Liberty University
Law And Religion: Sharia Law And The First Amendment, Joseph A. Williamson
Senior Honors Theses
America has long been seen as the capital of religious freedom and individual rights. In recent years a debate has arisen over whether an individual can personally adhere to the legal concept of sharia law under the protections of the first amendment. At the center of this debate is precedent that can be drawn from previous interactions between religion and American ideals. Two similar issues that have been settled both judicially and legislatively are the conscientious draft objector and the federal prohibition of polygamy. By studying the roots of Islamic law and then the basis of these two concepts, a …
Subpoena Served To Fr. Anthony Maes,
2014
University of New Mexico
Subpoena Served To Fr. Anthony Maes, Hall & Monagle, Llc
Records related to Fr. Anthony G. Maes
No abstract provided.
Hammering Down Nails,
2014
University of Georgia School of Law
Hammering Down Nails, Scott M. Lenhart
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Saving Face: Acid Attack Laws After The U.N. Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women,
2014
University of Georgia School of Law
Saving Face: Acid Attack Laws After The U.N. Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women, Lisa M. Taylor
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
