Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion

Volume 13 (2011-2012)

Fall 2011 Issue

Articles

Render Less Unto Caesar? Denying Communion to Catholic Judges
Dermot Lynch
A Higher Law: Abraham Lincoln’s Use of Biblical Imagery
Wilson Huhn

Notes

A Life for an Afterlife: Assessing the Potential Redemption of Capital Inmates’ Requests to Posthumously Donate Organs Under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
Jessica Miller
Seeking Religious Validity for Body Piercings and Tattoos: How the Church of Body Modification Should Gain Recognition as a Religion in the Modern Era
Danielle Gold

Nuremberg Project

Social Darwinism in Nazi Family and Inheritance Law
Ellis Washington, J.D.

New Developments

“Pray Away the Gay?” An Analysis of the Legality of Conversion Therapy by Homophobic Religious Organizations
Jonathan Sacks

Spring 2012 Issue

Articles

Jewish Law and the Tragedy for Sexual Abuse of Children – The Dilemma Within the Orthodox Jewish Community
Steven H. Resnicoff
Religious Free Speech and Somebody Else’s Civil Rights: Reviewing an Old Conflict in Light of California’s Proposition 8
Robert D. Crockett
The Accommodation of the Shari’a Within Western Legal Systems
Nicholas Aroney & Rex Ahdar

Notes

Who is a Jew? An Analytical Examination of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom’s JFS Case: Why the Matrilineal Test for Jewish Identity is Not in Violation of the Race Relations Act of 1976
Jason Ordene
Street of Fire: Shiv Sena and Film Censorship in Contemporary India
Ross A. Carbone

New Developments

What’s Wrong with my Nativity Scene?: Religiously Discriminatory Restrictive Covenants in New York
Amanda Hopkins
Digeronimo v. Fuchs; Judge Dismisses Malpractice Suit Complaining About Life
Logan Pettigrew

National Religious Freedom Moot Court Competition

In partnership with the National Religious Freedom Moot Court Board at George Washington University Law School, we are pleased to announce the 2012 competition’s “Best Brief” winners, James Harlow and Leigh Llewelyn of Duke University School of Law.

Winning Brief: Broadway Licensing Corp. V. Counterpoint Repertory Troupe
James Harlow & Leigh Llewelyn