Sample Readings
Institute participants are expected to complete the assigned readings prior to the relevant session. A syllabus will be provided in advance of the Institute and assigned readings may include (but not be limited to) selections from the following texts:
Barclay, Stephanie, "Revisiting Smith," Yale Law Review Forum, December 4, 2023.
Harold Berman, Law and Revolution I: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Harvard University Press, 1985)
Danielle N. Boaz, Banning Black Gods: Law and Religion of the African Diaspora (Penn State University Press, 2021)
Michael Broyde, Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels: Religious Arbitration in America and the West (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Deepa Das Acevedo, The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Wael B. Hallaq, Sharī‘a: Theory, Practice, Transformations (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Jonathan S. Kahn and Vincent W. Lloyd, eds., Race and Secularism in America (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Susan Last Stone and Yonatan Brafman, eds., Jewish Law: New Perspectives (DeGruyter, 2025)
Dana Lloyd, Land is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom and Sacred Sites (University of Kansas, 2023)
Kate Rosenblatt, Cooperative Battlegrounds: Farmers, Workers, and the Search for Economic Alternatives (Columbia University Press, forthcoming)
Leslie Ribovich, Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools (NYU Press, 2024)
Elizabeth Sepper, “Free Exercise of Abortion,” Brigham Young University Law Review 49, no. 1 (2023)
Isaac Weiner and Joshua Dubler, eds., Religion, Law, USA (NYU Press, 2019)
Tisa Wenger, Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)
John Witte, Jr., Joel Nichols, and Richard Garnett, Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 5th Edition (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Asma Uddin, When Islam is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom (Pegasus Books, 2019)