I’m looking forward to participating and catching up with friends next month at the 2022 Religious Freedom Annual Review, sponsored by the international Center for law and
religion studies at BYU law. I’ll be speaking about the future of religious exemptions after Fulton. [...]
A prominent structural feature on the surface of Professor Vermeule's Common Good Constitutionalism is its two-level presentation of CGC. One reasons the book has received
such divergent reactions is inattention to this two-level structure. Level one is Generic CGC. [...]
While I'm at it, here's a little notice for a new paper by Professor Steven Smith that may be of interest to MOJ readers, from the same conference organized by Professor Helen
Alvaré as the one for which I wrote the paper below. Steve's paper is The Church in the Twilight and the abstract is below. [...]
On 25 May 2022, the Church of England issued the following Press Release on the a review of handling of safeguarding issues regarding the former Dean of Christ Church, Oxford,
Dr Martyn Percy, and the associated Terms of Reference. [...]
Sue Gray’s report on Alleged gatherings on Government premises during COVID restrictions was published today, 25 May. It concludes as follows: “General findings Conclusion
24.The gatherings within the scope of this investigation are spread over a 20-month period – a period that has been unique in recent times in terms of the complexity [...]
As part of the reordering of our Home Page, we have indexed the posts on L&RUK assisted dying which we have covered since 2012. 2012 General 2012 and 2013: retrospect and
prospect, Assisted Dying, (1 January 2013). [...]
A Press Release was issued by The Church of Scotland following the approval of General Assembly of the scheme to conduct same-sex marriage; extracts are reproduced below. General
Assembly approves scheme to conduct same-sex marriages [...]
Schrödinger’s parties. Legal for some, illegal for others John Crace “Partygate” Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic we have followed developments of the relevant legislation
and guidance. However, the interpretation of the 126 referrals for fixed penalty notices (FPNs) made by the Metropolitan Police to the ACRO Criminal Records Office [...]
A new draft paper, building on some work I’ve done on the nature of “establishment” today, its relationship to free exercise and exemption from general law, and particularly
the idea of establishment as “regime” in classical political theory. One of the more controversial claims in the paper is that inquiries about “religion” [...]
A new draft paper, building on some work I've done on the nature of "establishment" today, its relationship to free exercise and exemption from general law, and particularly
the idea of establishment as "regime" in classical political theory. One of the more controversial claims in the paper is that inquiries about "religion" as a legal [...]
