The roundtable includes essays from John Adenitire (Queen Mary, University of London) on whether the law should recognize religion as a unique category, Douglas Laycock(University of Virginia) on friendship, tolerance, and religious liberty, Carol Nackenoff (Swarthmore College) on religious liberty at the intersection of the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses, Jaclyn Neo (National University of Singapore) on whether state neutrality toward religion can hold amid increasing religious… [read post]

Douglas Fauntleroy, Defendant-Appellant. 2009 WL 3256578, 2009 N.Y. [read post]

To be sure, there are extraordinarily important questions raised as to the allocation of authority over children’s education, an issue much under-played at the time, save in Justice Douglas’s opinion, but presented front and center, say, by lawsuits challenging the ability of Chasidic parents to deprive their children basically of any non-religious education, including assuring facility in use of the English language. [read post]