Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion

Part 1 – Fall 2014

Articles

Shaping Their Better Character: Religion in African American Politics in the Age of Obama
Philip C. Aka

Regulating Theft – Lessons From Biblical Law
Moshe Bar Niv (Burnovski)

Notes

Do People Have Ownership Over Their Body Parts and if so, Can the State Control Their Ultimate Disposition in the Interest of Public Health and Safety?
David A. Mapow, M.D.

Marrying Polygamy into Title VII
Hope Marie Deutsch

New Developements

Social Distancing in New York Schools
Jessica L. Lentini

But-For the Beard: An Analysis of Causation Under United States Code Section 249
Aaron J. Creuz

Nuremberg Project

Do as We Say, Not as We Do: The Changing Role of America as Torture Prosecuor to Torture Perpetrator
Jessica O’Connor

Part 2 – Spring 2015

Articles

Introduction – People of the Book: Judaism’s Influence on American Legal Scholarship
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall

Civil Liberties and the “imaginative Sustenance” of Jewish Culture
Susan A. Bandes

The Making of a Libertarian, Contrarian, Nonobservant, but Self-Identified Jew
Randy E. Barnett

Decoding “Never Again”
Sherry F. Colb

Judaism, Pluralism, and Constitutional Glare
Perry Dane

Never Forget? Jewish Identity, History, Memory, Slavery and the Constitution
Ariela J. Gross

The Piety of My Negative Judaism
Andrew Koppelman

Reinvention with Authenticity: A New Journey on a Familiar Road
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall

The (Possible) Impact of Judaism and Israel on One Particular Career as a Legal Academic
Sanford Levinson

People of the Book: Judaism’s Influence on American Legal Scholarship: My Journey From Judaism to Jewish Law
Donna Litman

Jewish Identity’s Impact in a Nutshell
Steven Resnicoff

Against Solitary Confinement: Jonah’s Redemption and our Need for Mercy
Margo Schlanger

Antisemitism and Hate Speech Studies
Alexander Tsesis

Notes

RLUIPA: How Equality and Fairness in Land Use Regulations Do Not Always Coexist
Robert Banas

On the Issuance of Islamic Securities by State and Local Governments; Or, Why New Jersey Should Sell the Turnpike to the Emir of Dubai
Kareem R. Seifeldin

New Developments
Nuremberg Project

Do Actions Soeak Louder than Words?: An Analysis of Conversion Therapy as Protected Speech Versus Unprotected Conduct
Brielle N. Kovalchek

For the Sake of Restitution: An Analysis of Cornelius Gurlitt’s Will, its Court Challenge, and Why Public Policy Should Drive the Court’s Decision
Ryan MacDonald

Part 3 – Summer 2015

Articles

Foward: On Religious Constitutionalism
Perry Dane

An Essay on Constitutionalism: Building in the Divine Style, for the Common Good(s)
Patrick McKinley Brennan

A Jewish Constitution
Steven F. Friedell

Islamic Constitutionalism: Not Secular, Not Theocratic, Not Impossible
Asifa Quraishi-Landes

Notes

Outing Anti-Gay Teaching in Schools: How the Constitutional Success of Conversion Therapy Bans Provide Viable Arguments to Defend Bans on Heteronormative Education
Ryann M. Aaron

New Developments

Watch Out: You’re Being Watched (If You’re Muslim)
Aimee Blenner

Nuremberg Project

Not Taking Nein for an Answer: An Analysis of Greece’s Call for Payments of Reparations and War Debts from Germany
Dominic Giova