Articles of interest – September 12, 2016

From SSRN:

Steven Menashi, How Great is the Threat to Religious Freedom, Really?, (Mosaic Magazine, August 17, 2015).
Michael W. McConnell, Mark E. Schneider, Jay P. Lefkowitz & Steven Menashi, Brief of Amici Curiae Former Justice Department Officials in Support of Petitioners in Zubik v. Burwell, (2016).
Shachar Eldar & Elkana Laist, The Irrelevance of Motive and the Rule of Law, (New Criminal Law Review, Forthcoming).
Marc O. DeGirolami, Religious Accommodation, Religious Tradition, and Political Polarization, (Lewis & Clark Law Review, Forthcoming).
Christopher C. Lund, Religious Exemptions, Third-Party Harms, and the Establishment Clause, (Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 91, p. 1375, 2016 (symposium)).
John C. Eastman, No Free Lunch, But Dinner and a Movie (and Contraceptives for Dessert)?, (10 N.Y.U. J. L. & Liberty 282 (2016)).
Robert Corn-Revere, Hate Speech Laws: Ratifying the Assassin’s Veto, (Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 791 (2016)).

From SSRN (non-U.S. Law):

Effie Fokas, Directions in Religious Pluralism in Europe: Mobilizations in the Shadow of European Court of Human Rights Religious Freedom Jurisprudence, (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Vol 4, No.1, 54-74 (2015)).
Luke Beck, The Case against Improper Purpose as the Touchstone for Invalidity under Section 116 of the Constitution, (Federal Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 3, Forthcoming).
Gbohou Gnantin Hilaire Tegnan & Saldi Isra, Rule of Law and Human Rights Challenges in South East Asia: A Case Study of Legal Pluralism in Indonesia, (April 1, 2016).
Preethi Kumar Mokshagundam, Dr. Ambedkar’s Concept of Social Justice and Indian Constitution Protection for Dalits – A Recent Day Analysis, (August 23, 2016).
Paul Dermine, Towards the Recognition of a Pan-European Right to Same-Sex Marriage – What If Light Came from the United States?, (June 1, 2016).
Matthew S. Erie, Sharia, Charity, and Minjian Autonomy in Muslim China: Gift Giving in a Plural World, (American Ethnologist 43(2): 311-423 (2016)).

Walter C. Long, The Constitutionality and Ethics of Execution-Day Prison Chaplaincy, [Abstract], 21 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 1-33 (2015).
Michael Stokes Paulsen, The Unconscionable War on Moral Conscience (reviewing Robert P. George, Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism), 91 Notre Dame Law Review Rev. 1167-1195 (2016).
Mark Strasser, Hobby Lobby, RFRA, and Family Burdens, [Abstract], 25 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 239-264 (2016).
Special Issue: A Thousand Years of Infamy: The History of the Blood Libel. Edited by Richard H. Weisberg; preface by Richard H. Weisberg; articles by Jeffrey Mehlman, Hannah R. Johnson, Richard H. Weisberg, David Fraser and Vivian Grosswald Curran. 28 Law & Literature 1-95 (2016).