Articles of interest – December 24, 2012

Howard Friedman, Religion Clause

From SSRN:

• Tom Ginsburg, Constitutionalism: East Asian Antecedents, (Chicago-Kent Law Review, 2013).
• Mohamed A. Arafa, President Mursi’s Egypt Arab Spring: Does Egypt Will Continue to Be a Civil State or Under the Umbrella of Islamic (Sharie‘a) Law and Islamism?, (US-China Law Review, Vol. 9, No. 6, 2012).
• Veronique Champeil-Desplats, Laïcité Et Liberté Religieuse En France: Aux Sources De La Loi Interdisant La Dissimulation Intégrale Du Visage Dans L’Espace Public (Secularism and Religious Freedom in France: On the Legal Provisions Prohibiting the Veil to Cover the Face in Public Space), (Revista Derecho del Estado, No. 29, 2012).
• Xiomara Lorena Romero Perez, La Libertad Religiosa En El Sistema Interamericano De Protección De Los Derechos Humanos (Análisis Comparativo Con El Ordenamiento Jurídico Colombiano) (Religious Freedom in the American System of Human Rights Protection (Comparison with the Colombian Legal System)), (Revista Derecho del Estado No. 29, 2012).
• Omar M, Dajani, Responding to Ethnic and Religious Conflict in the Emerging Arab Order: The Promise and Limits of Rights, (November 10, 2012).
• Lucinda Ferguson, ‘Families in All Their Subversive Variety’: Over-Representation, the Ethnic Child Protection Penalty, and Responding to Diversity Whilst Protecting Children, (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Forthcoming).
• Nicholas A. Primrose, Has Society Become Tolerant of Further Infringement on First Amendment Rights?, (December 4, 2012).

From SSRN (Jewish Law and Islamic Law)

• Yitshak Cohen, Midrashic Exegesis and Biblical Interpretation in the Meshekh Hokhmah – The Man and the Work – Their Legal Stature and Normative Influence, (Jewish Law Annual, Forthcoming).
• Yitshak Cohen, The Rabbbinic Decisors and the Halakhic Material in the Or Sameah, (Jewish Law Association, Forthcoming).
• Yitshak Cohen, The Jerusalem Talmud in Rabbi Meir Simcha Hakohen’s Halachic-Legal Work, (9 Kiryat Hamishpat L. Rev. 301, 2011).
• Yitshak Cohen, Juridical Ideology and Its Influence upon the ‘Or Sameach’s’ Halachic Decision Making Process, (Halakhah: Explicit and Implied Theoretical and Ideological Aspects, Avinoam Rosenak & Dafna Schreiber, eds., 2012).
• Mark Cammack and Michael Feener, The Islamic Legal System in Indonesia, (Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2012).