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    • Is Bosnia and Herzegovina Discriminating Against Its Largest Religious Group by Refusing to Sign an Agreement with the Islamic Community?
    • The Rules of Engagement: Identifying the Defining Features of the European Union’s Sui Generis Model of Religion-State Relations
    • The Quiet Architecture of Religious Freedom at Work
    • Israel’s Death Penalty Law: “Jewish and Democratic”?
    • The EUCJ Ruling in Katholische Schwangerschaftsberatung v. JB and Its Impact on Ecclesiastical Labor Law in Germany
    • Women and Church Governance: What Pope Francis’s Reform Changed—and What it Left Open
    • Global Overview of Religious Registration Systems: Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Arabian Peninsula
    • Magnifica Humanitas: Human Dignity, Technology, and the International Order
    • Sociology of Religious Freedom
    • Religious Freedom and Indigenous Rights: Global Perspectives
    • Religious Law and Human Rights
    • The Naming of Religious Groups: A Human Rights Analysis
    • Pope Francis and His Legacy in Theology, Canon Law, Interreligious Dialogue, and Religious Leadership
    • Conscientious Objection to the Military Service: A Right in Progress
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    • Greek Tragedy: Gideon Sapir on Why He Is Now Critical of the Israeli Supreme Court’s Decisions on Religious Exemption from Military Service
    • Constitutional Rights Symmetry: Thomas Berg’s Evolution of Opinion on Obergefell v. Hodges
    • Context Matters: Michel Rosenfeld on Rethinking His Initial Support of the ECtHR Judgement in Leyla Şahin v. Turkey
    • Michalyn Steele on Why the Progeny of Bowen v. Roy Changed Her View of the Original 1986 Case
    • Two Words: Why Frank Ravitch No Longer Supports the Overturning of Employment Division v. Smith
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    • Nazila Ghanea on Religious Freedom and Gender Equality as Non-Clashing Rights
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    • Religious Freedom: Toward a Pluralist Understanding
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Co-editors:

Dmytro Vovk, Director, Center for the Rule of Law and Religion Studies, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Amy Andrus, Associate Director, International Center  for Law and Religion Studies

Contributing editors:

Jane Wise, Associate Director, International Center  for Law and Religion Studies

Donlu Thayer (blog originator), Senior Fellow, International Center for Law and Religion Studies

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