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Five years later, the criminal trial and conviction of a former Baylor football player for sexual assault led the university to hire the Pepper Hamilton law firm to do a private investigation. [read post]

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This Holiday Weekend, Try Not to Be Penn State

21 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton

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[Eugene Volokh] Excommunication, Buddhists and temple control: An interesting new Supreme Court petition

15 Dec 2016, 4:30 pm by Eugene Volokh

Professor Michael McConnell, one of the two leading Religion Clauses scholars in the country, is lead counsel for the petitioners (though the petition itself bears the name of professor Marci Hamilton, a scholar who on many issues is on the opposite side from McConnell). [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

How the Conservative Religious Coalition Won the 2016 Election— Part I: Education

7 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton

This is the first part in a three-part series on the 2016 election. [read post]

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Trump has Unleashed Forces that Put the Vulnerable at Risk, Which Means the Private Sphere Will Have to Step Up to Protect Them

21 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton

In a transcendent moment in American politics, when Vice President-elect Mike Pence entered the theater to see Broadway’s biggest current hit, Hamilton, three things happened. [read post]

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The Electorate Inadvertently Imposes Real Accountability on Washington Republicans

9 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton

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Education, the 2016 Election, and the Future

26 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton

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The State Law Gauntlet Facing Child Sex Abuse Survivors: A Long Way to Go to Child-Centered Justice

12 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton

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Timothy Dolan Implements the Penn State Playbook for Child Sex Abuse Victims: The Best Argument Yet for SOL Reform

6 Oct 2016, 9:00 pm by Marci A. Hamilton

Admitting that the clergy sex abuse crisis still dogs the New York City Archdiocese, Timothy Cardinal Dolan has announced an Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Commission. [read post]

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Religion in the 2016 Election Cycle: Where Did It Go?

28 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton

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There Is an Antidote to the Politics that Endanger Children

14 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton

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The Court after Scalia: The complex future of free exercise

13 Sep 2016, 8:13 am by Marci Hamilton

Marci Hamilton is the Fox Family Pavilion Distinguished Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Author of God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty (which was nominated for a 2015 Pulitzer Prize) and Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children. [read post]

SCOTUSblog - http://www.scotusblog.com/

The Re-making of America’s Cities by Religious Organizations and the Department of Justice

31 Aug 2016, 9:02 pm by Marci A. Hamilton

Back in the day, the Constitution required a separation of power between state and federal governments. [read post]

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The Scandalous Religious Liberty Project of this Era: Rights to Discriminate, Harass, and Harm at Will

17 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton

The religious liberty movement of this era will go down in infamy as a drive to discriminate against the LGBTQ community and to put women and children in their “places”: subservient to men. [read post]

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