In America, the spiritual seekers and do-it-yourselfers can claim as ancestors American transcendentalists like Emerson and Whitman. But there is also a distinctively English

analogue of the late Victorian period. That is the subject of this new book, The New Prometheans: Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian fin de [...]

In Mushfig Mammadov and Others v Azerbaijan [2019] ECHR Application No 14604/08 [in French], the five applicants were Jehovah’s Witnesses. They told their local military

recruitment offices that they wanted to be exempted from compulsory service on grounds of conscience and, in the case of most of them, to perform alternative civilian [...]

Coming in the next few days and weeks from Cambridge University Press:  The book contains 16 interdisciplinary essays (law, theology, ethics, politics, business) on biotechnology

patents and issues of justice. A bit from the description at Amazon (see also the Cambridge Press page here):  This volume brings together a unique collection of [...]

The UK Government and the EU have agreed revised texts at negotiators’ level for the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland included in the Withdrawal Agreement and the consequential

technical adaptations to Article 184 “Negotiations on the future relationship” and Article 185 “Entry into force and application” of the Withdrawal Agreement. [...]

Several years ago, Professor Winnifred Fallers Sullivan wrote an influential book titled, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom. Sullivan’s core thesis was that protecting

“religious” freedom was impossible in contemporary America because nobody can agree, for purposes of the law, about what religion is. [...]

The enduring quarrel between the ancients and the moderns is about which group has the greater wisdom. Here is a posthumous book of essays by the great writer, Umberto Eco,

that tackles that question through the themes of beauty, ugliness, the absolute and the relative, the sacred, and many others: On the Shoulders of Giants (Harvard [...]

The Electronic Communications Code was updated by government in 2017 to make it easier to install and maintain mobile infrastructure to improve mobile connectivity across the

UK. On 10 October 2019, the Church of England announced that it has partnered with Cornerstone, the mobile infrastructure services company which owns and manages [...]

This recent article in Foreign Policy tells the story of a young woman and her family’s plight in Xinjiang. China’s treatment of religious minorities continues to violate

basic human rights, and the state’s response to its own people and the international community is simply that “most people” in re-education camps have been [...]

Way back when, in April 2015, during the oral argument for Obergefell v. Hodges (transcript here; see also here) Justice Alito, probed what he thought might be the implications

of the Court’s recognizing a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry, noting that in Bob Jones University v. [...]