This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and
practices into culture in Western democracies. Analyses of three legal cases involving …

How do legacies of conflict affect choices between state and nonstate legal institutions? This
article studies this question in Chechnya, where state law coexists with Sharia and …

In the last few decades, the study of law and religion has undergone considerable
reconstruction. Less and less constrained by modern statist construals of rights talk or tied to …

Christian Democratic actors and thinkers have been at the forefront of many of the twentieth
century's key political battles-from the construction of the international human rights regime …

Our Civilizing Mission is at once an exploration of colonial education and a response to
current anxieties about the historical and conceptual foundations of the 'humanities'. On the …

What role do and should constitutions play in mitigating intense disagreements over the
religious character of a state? And what kind of constitutional solutions might reconcile …

In France, secularism is celebrated in the public sphere. The paper makes general
arguments about France's changing identity and specific arguments about the burqa and …

In this pathbreaking work, Christopher Skeaff argues that a profoundly democratic
conception of judgment is at the heart of Spinoza's thought. Bridging Continental and Anglo …

Religious constitutionalism has recently become a global discussion. Such a trend arises as
a result of several countries that have a majority of religious adherents declare their …

This dissertation explores how the social and political consequences of armed conflict affect
legal pluralism; specifically, the coexistence of Russian state law, Sharia, and customary law …