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Tim Terrell Semesters Taught: Law This course is about normative disagreement: Law This course is built around the th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. It focuses on the legal and political consequences of the revolutionary religious changes born of the sixteenth-century Reformation, which broke into Lutheran, Anglican, Calvinist, and Anabaptist branches. Each of these four Protestant movements helped to introduce striking new forms of legal theory and constitutional order, new platforms of rights and liberties, and new laws of marriage and family life, schooling and education, charity and social welfare.

Many of these legal and political reforms introduced during the Reformation remained at the core of the Western legal tradition until well into the twentieth century.

Ecclesiastical (canon) law. Jurisprudence & general issues

Theories, Methods, and Approaches. Silas Allard Semesters Taught: Fall , School: Law I n this course, students will survey the interdisciplinary field of law and religion. The course will begin by discussing the nature of the field known as law and religion. What areas of inquiry constitute this field? What do we mean when we talk about "law" and "religion"? The course will then cover different substantive areas and methodological approaches by reading, analyzing, and critiquing examples of law and religion scholarship from leading scholars.

Students will be asked to think about the choices that scholars make: What is the relationship of law and religion in this example of scholarship? What does the scholar draw on as evidence for her argument? How does the scholar construct his argument? How does the scholar think about law? How does the scholar think about religion? These and other questions will help students understand how different approaches function; what they can achieve; what they cannot achieve; and why a scholar would choose a certain approach.

By the conclusion of the course, students will 1 understand the scope and subjects covered by the field of law and religion, 2 develop an understanding of different methodological approaches to the study of law and religion, and 3 be prepared to use different methodological approaches in their own writing. Law and Society in Judaism and Beyond. Don Seeman Semesters Taught: Law This seminar explores the relationship between law and vulnerability from both a theoretical and a practical perspective.

The course is anchored in the understanding that fundamental to our shared humanity is our shared vulnerability, which is universal and constant and inherent in the human condition. It will offer students an opportunity to engage with multiple perspectives on vulnerability, with an emphasis on law, justice, state policy and legislative ethics. While vulnerability can never be eliminated, society through its institutions confers certain "assets" or resources, such as wealth, health, education, family relationships, and marketable skills on individuals and groups. These assets give individuals "resilience" in the face of their vulnerability.

This seminar will explore how as society now is structured, however, certain individuals and groups operate from positions of entrenched advantage or privilege, while others are disadvantaged in ways that seem to be invisible as we engage in law and policy discussions. Timothy Jackson Semesters Taught: GDR Course description coming soon. Nonprofit Leadership and Management. David Jenkins Semesters Taught: Bobbi Paterson Semesters Taught: GDR W hat changes or shifts when histories and cultures of American and Trans-American Religions are examined through the lenses of place and space?

From foundational to current theories and methods, this course will explore a range of approaches including: Students will consider how and why memory and imagination construct religious practices of place from home-making, to nation-crafting, to sacred searching. What are the ethical consequences of placing American Religions?

Finally, students will interrogate current claims that we are living in an increasingly religiously placeless or global world. Principles and Practices of Moral Leadership. Increasingly, however, ethicists find themselves addressing multiple questions of war. Michael Berger Semesters Taught: Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. Elizabeth Bounds Semesters Taught: GDR The purpose of this course to deepen understanding of religions' roles in fostering and sustaining violence and conflict, as well as religions' ability to transform conflict and build peace.

Religion, Culture, and Law in Comparative Practice. Law Debates rage worldwide over what role religion and culture should play in law and governance and whether granting them a role conflicts with democratic principles. Increasingly, religious and ethnic groups are demanding that religious and cultural practices form the basis of the legal system or, at the very least, a separate legal system governing only their members. Western policymakers are finding it difficult to respond to these claims. This course will explore the issues that arise in the debates about the appropriate role for religion and culture in democratic governance.

It will examine different models for incorporating religion and culture into law as well as at models that wholly reject this incorporation using case studies from the US, Europe, Asia and Africa. Religion, Ethics, and Public Intellectuals.

Sexual and Reproductive Health. John Blevins Semesters Taught: Religion and Health in Context: Religion and Human Rights: A Millennium for Restorative Justice. Thee Smith Semesters Taught: GDR T he point of departure for this course is a working hypothesis: Even so, a corollary follows here, we discover repeated instances where each tradition needs other religions as well as secular humanist resources in order sometimes first to recognize and acknowledge, and then interrupt and counteract, its chronic human rights violations. By the end of this course class members will share an interreligious collation of such resources based on surveys of the world religions and of selected case studies.

The Roman lawyers created new legal concepts, ideas, rules and mechanisms that are still applied in the most Western legal systems. Specifically designed for American law students without a civil law or canon law background, this course introduces the Roman legal system in its social, political, and economic context.

The course will cover the fundamental topics of private law persons, property and inheritance, and obligations ; the revival of Roman law in the Middle Ages; and the current impact of Roman law in the era of globalization. Skills in Conflict Transformation I. GDR T his course examines a selection of contemporary critical theories of justice and politics, in dialogue with selected work in Christian political discourse. Students work comparatively by placing these theorists in conversation with one another; and work critically by evaluating these theories on their own merits and in light of contemporary social problems and contexts.

Beginning with the liberal accounts of justice offered by John Rawls and Reinhold Niebuhr, the course continues through a variety of different forms of critiques of liberal justice, including a cluster of recent works on political theology that primarily engage with Christian theology.

Tara Doyle Semesters Taught: Justin Latterell Semesters Taught: Deborah Dinner Semesters Taught: Law This seminar investigates the historical relationship between family forms, the U. Theological Ethics and the Novel. Pam Hill Semesters Taught: How can the genre of the novel helps us to understand and imagine the character of human experience, of challenges to human flourishing, and possible expressions of human relationship to the divine? Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith. Introduction to Islamic Law. Muslim laws, politics, and society in modern nation states: Confronting Misconceptions And Acknowledging Imperfections: Where are the Legal Hadith?

Stahnke, Tad and Blitt, Robert C. Islamic Law, 23 Okla. Khaliq, Urfan, Beyond The Veil?: Saiman, Chaim, Legal Theology: The Case Of Egypt, 37 Vand. Commercial Law Moghul, Umar F. Of The Gulf Bahamas Ltd.

John J. Coughlin

A Cultural Perspective, 11 Fordham Intell. Basic sources and their descriptions: Briefs in US cases involving First Amendment issues, education, dietary laws, etc. Halachic forms for living wills, permissible interest charges in sales, and prenuptial agreements. Excellent practical guide with research strategies for understanding the terms used in the Talmud and the Responsa and with regard to specific translations and sets.

Professor Segal's "Image Maps and Interactive pages" is the best feature of this set of links to articles and commentary. Seforim Online , enables one to download approximately Hebrew seforim, many of which are rare or out-of-print. Tshuvos , enables one to download more than Hebrew seforim. Bar Ilan Faculty of Law library.

Central Conference of American Rabbis, development of digital Responsa. University Press of America, The Concise code of Jewish law: Jewish law Mishpat Ivri: An introduction to Jewish civil law. Jerusalem ; New York: Ganzfried, Solomon ben Joseph, An introduction to the history and sources of Jewish law. The laws of the Damascus document: The essential Talmud, translated from the Hebrew by Chaya Galai. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Women in the Damascus document. Some journals are online for free from the publisher. This index can be found by going to http: Research of Jewish Law Issues: The Foundations Of Law: Association of Jewish Libs.

Theology, law, and the self-governance of religious communities: Jewish Marriage and Civil Law: A Pluralist Analysis, 34 Isr. Rethinking Robert Cover's Nomos and Narrative: Basic books and periodicals on Jewish law: Libreria editrice vaticana, Histoire du droit canonique. The Spirit of the Classical Canon Law. University of Georgia Press, Canons and Canonists in Context. Theoretical and practical understanding of the integral reordering of canon law. Edwin Mellen Press, From Sacrament to Contract: Westminster John Knox Press, A Study Of Canon Law: Araujo, Robert John S.

Religious law

International Tribunals and Rules of Evidence: The Rule of Saint Benedict: In the Steps of Gratian: A Conference on the Work of Harold J. A New Concordance of Discordant Canons: Berman on Law and Religion, 42 Emory L.

Hindu Law Essential facts From an ancient time, B. Mulla's Principles of Hindu Law 18th ed. Beyond Tradition and Modernity. Eastern Book Company, Hindu law and legal theory. Venkataramen, Raghavachariar's Hindu Law Articles Garg, Sampak P. Gandhi's Legal Ethics, 51 Rutgers L.

The Relevance of Religion to a Lawyer's Work: Practitioners of Hindu Law: Ancient and Modern, 66 Fordham L. The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet. Cornell University Press, Buddhist Law Bangkok, Thai legal history before Thai Law, Buddhist Law: White Orchid Press, Articles Engel, David M. Globalization and the Decline of Legal Consciousness: The Case of the Missing Discipline: Lamas, Oracles, Channels, and the Law: Law, Religion, And Identity: A Conversation with Tibetans?

The Invention of Burmese Buddhist Law: Thai Law and Buddhist Law, 46 Am. Van Loon, Louis H. Buddhism in South Africa: Wijeyeratne, Roshan De Silva.

Penal and Administrative Law in its Early Development. The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law. Derrett, An Introduction to Legal Systems. Law, State, and Social Control in China. Articles Ainsworth, Janet E.

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Fang, Quiang and Roger Des Forges. The Teachings of Confucius: Takeya Mizuno and Christopher E. Confucianism, Collectivism and Constitutions: Press Systems in China and Japan, 5 Comm. Law, Culture, and the Politics of Confucianism, 16 Colum. The Analects for Lawyers: Variations upon Confucian Wisdom, 34 Tex. Codes, Cultures, Chaos, and Champions: Ancient Rights and Wrongs: Implementation of religious law in several jurisdictions. Andorra Canon law when custom silent Family law, domestic relationships Const.

British common law as applied in India; Sunni schools apply to Shi'ite unless both parties of that sect Personal relationships, non-commercial Const. Ghana Shari'a for Muslims Matrimonial law Const. Full current texts ; Const. Indonesia Islam as practiced by Muslims and Hindu-influenced Java Matrimonial law, inheritance and religious foundations waqf Const. Iraq Shia are majority; Sunni apply many schools Const. Myanmar Buddhist law after repression, Theravada school marriage, personal status, succession Burmese Collections and drafting project, treatises on dhamma Nigeria Islamic shari'a courts, northern region Muslim personal law, Maliki school; penal law Const.


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