Employers navigating employees’ requests for religious accommodations face some confusing guidance. A new Supreme Court case could clarify – and shift the norm.
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Yeshiva University’s legal case has garnered national attention, but several similar cases are underway.
303 Creative v. Elenis gives SCOTUS another chance to set precedent about what happens when First Amendment freedoms come at a cost to civil rights.
Historians of American religious history explain why the Supreme Court’s recent religious liberty rulings are an example of America’s long struggle to define religious freedom.
Islamic views on abortion are based on diverse interpretations of what’s right and wrong when it comes to the body.
A historian explains why the pre-Roe anti-abortion movement was filled with liberal Democrats who opposed the Vietnam War and supported the expansion of the welfare state.
A moral philosopher explains what’s at stake in second-trimester abortions – and why they’ll increase in a post-Roe world.
Many people do not realize they are delivering at a Catholic hospital, and others may not have a choice. But where one receives care has a profound impact on the birth control options they’re offered.
Kennedy v. Bremerton, a case about a public school teacher’s prayer, helps close out a Supreme Court term in which religion was often in the spotlight.
Scholars explain why many see abortion access as a religious freedom issue and what the views of different faiths are on ‘ensoulment,’ the point at which the soul is believed to enter the fetus.
Once again, the court has expanded the legal ways that public funds can be used for students at religious institutions.
A scholar writes about how the Southern Baptist Convention’s views on abortion changed during the 1980s, when a more conservative wing seized control of the denomination.
For women with a family history of serious genetic disorders, abortion is a critical option: a security feature that allows them to consider having children.
Restricting abortion access has negative effects on parents, as well as children and families, including increased poverty, unemployment, pregnancy-related deaths and higher health risks in children.
A scholar of constitutional law and American religious history explains how the abortion issue has been historically rooted in religious beliefs, giving a moral certainty that law cannot provide.
The Supreme Court ruled May 2, 2022, in Shurtleff v. Boston, a free speech case.
Scholars discuss the meaning of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s potential elevation to the highest court in the land.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, a case stemming from a football coach’s prayers on the field, on April 25, 2022.
A constitutional law professor provides insight on what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, could mean for how that court works.
Justices have cleared the way for hundreds of Trump administration documents to be handed to a panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack. A law scholar explains what that means for executive privilege.
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education in the School of Education and Health Sciences and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy, Willamette University
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Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Montana
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Professor of Political Science, Purdue University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, City, University of London
