Welsh Government Education Minister Kirsty Williams AM has confirmed the Government’s decision on religion, relationships and sexuality education and announced plans for

‘sensitive and careful implementation’. In a piece cross-posted with permission from his blog, Russell Sandberg comments on the announcement. [...]

I’m at Washington University in St. Louis today for a conference put together by Professor John Inazu on “The Religion Clauses.” I’ll be talking about my recent piece,

First Amendment Traditionalism, which extends the arguments about traditionalism in constitutional interpretation that I first made in The Traditions of American [...]

At the Liberty Law blog this morning, I have an essay on historian Charles Laderman’s fine new book, Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention,

and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order. At the turn of the 20th Century, American officials repeatedly voiced support for an independent Armenian state in Anatolia. [...]

In this episode, we discuss the Court’s cert grant in two consolidated cases on the ministerial exception: St. James Church v. Biel and Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru.

The cases will require the Court to clarify the definition of “minister,” a question the Court left open six years ago in Hosanna-Tabor. [...]

On 22 January 2020, the Church of England issued the Press Release Civil Partnerships for opposite-sex couples. This indicates that following the recent change in the law to

extend civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples, the House of Bishops has agreed a pastoral statement for same sex and opposite sex and opposite sex couples. The [...]

I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about our tax code in the United States and how it influences charitable giving. The main reason I’ve been paying more attention

to this area of policy is because I was given the incredible opportunity to teach an experiential learning course here at Notre Dame this past fall. [...]

Vegetarianism and veganism have distinct but overlapping histories, both Christian and secular. In this guest post, Michael Ainsworth comments on the origins of Christian vegetarianism

in Salford, and David Walker, Bishop of Manchester, on some issues of contemporary veganism, including the recent debate about whether it engages human rights protection. [...]

I would like to draw attention to a Letter to the Editor published in today's student newspaper at Notre Dame, The Observer. The letter is authored by David Spicer, a summer

fellow in 2019 here at the Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State & Society. [...]

Marc and I are delighted to announce that our two graduating student fellows, Anthony Nania ’20 and Dan Vitagliano ’20, have earned wonderful judicial clerkships for after

graduation. Anthony will clerk for Chief Judge Fiore of the New York Court of Appeals from 2020-2022 and Dan will clerk for Judge Vyskocil on the Southern District [...]