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Center
for Law and Religion Studies
This center at Brigham Young University
studies the factors that affect the interaction
between states and religions around the
world. Christian
Legal Society
The nondenominational CLS provides resources
and training, promotes religious freedom,
ministers to law students, and advocates
biblical conflict resolution. Emory
University School of Law - Law and Religion
Program
The Law and Religion Program studies the
interactions between law and religion. Journal
of Law and Religion
This interdisciplinary journal from Hamline
University School of Law considers the societal
context of the legal system, including the
moral and religious views of law. Religious
Freedom Page
The project from the University of Virginia
explores all realms of Americans' religious
freedom. Rutgers
Journal of Law & Religion
This journal examines ways in which law
affects different religions and how various
religions affect the law. University
of Missouri-Columbia School of Law
MU's School of Law, which has been producing
distinguished leaders for 125 years, is
also home to the Center for Dispute Resolution.
Readings
Books
Christopher
Thomas Anglim, Religion and the Law: A Dictionary (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1999). Thomas E. Baker and Timothy W. Floyd (eds.)Can
a Good Christian Be a Good Lawyer: Homilies,
Witnesses, and Reflections (Notre Dame,
Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998). Jeffrey A.
Brauch, Is Higher Law Common Law?
Readings on the Influence of Christian Thought
in Anglo-American Law (Littleton, Colo.:
F.B. Rothman, 1999). Michael J.
Broyde, Pursuit of Justice and Jewish
Law: Halakhic Perspectives on the Legal
Profession (Hoboken, N.J.: KTAV Publishing
House, 1996). Stephen L.
Carter, Culture of Disbelief: How
American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious
Devotion (New York: Basic Books, 1993). Stephen L.
Carter, Dissent of the Governed:
A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1999). Stephen L.
Carter, God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs
and Rights of Religion in Politics (New
York: Basic Books, 2000). J.I. Coffey and Charles T. Mathewes (eds.), Religion,
Law, and the Role of Force: A Study of Their
Influence on Conflict and on Conflict Resolution (Ardsley, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers,
2002). Jude P. Dougherty, Western Creed, Western Identity: Essays
in Legal and Social Philosophy (Washington,
D.C.: Catholic University of America Press,
2000). Stephen M.
Feldman (ed.), Law and Religion:
A Critical Anthology (New York: New
York University Press, 2000). Paul Finkelman
(ed.), Religion and American Law:
An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland,
2000). Edwin S. Gaustad and Leigh E. Schmidt, Religious
History of America: The Heart of the American
Story from Colonial Times to Today (New
York: HarperCollins, 2002). Winthrop Still
Hudson and John Corrigan, Religion
in America, (Upper Saddle River, N.J.:
Pearson Education, 1998). Milton R. Konvitz, Torah and Constitution: Essays in American
Jewish Thought (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse
University Press, 1998). Michael W.
McConnell, Robert F. Cochran, Jr.,
and Angela C. Carmella (eds.), Christian
Perspectives on Legal Thought (New Haven,
Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001). William Lee
Miller, First Liberty: America's
Foundation in Religious Freedom (Washington,
D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003). Richard John
Neuhaus, Christian Faith and Public
Policy: Thinking and Acting in the Courage
of Uncertainty (Minneapolis: Augsburg,
1977). John T. Noonan and Edward M. Gaffney, Jr., Religious
Freedom: History, Cases, and Other Materials
on the Interaction of Religion and Government (New York: Foundation Press, 2001). A. James Reichley, Religion in American Public Life (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution,
1985). Tim J. Watts, Church and Court: Settling Religious
Disputes With Secular Law (Monticello,
Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, 1988). Andrew D. Weiner and Leonard V. Kaplan (eds.), On
Interpretation: Studies in Culture, Law,
and the Sacred (Madison: University
of Wisconsin Press, 2002). John Frederick
Wilson and Donald L. Drakeman (eds.), Church and State in American History:
Key Documents, Decisions, and Commentary
from the Past Three Centuries, Third
Edition (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press,
2003).
John Witte, Religion and the American Constitutional
Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999).