Digital Essays

“Plessy, Prince and Me: Law, Religion, and the Quest for Racial Justice,” Canopy Forum/Center for the Study of Law and Religion, February 22, 2023.

“Sovereigns, Exceptions, and ‘Shadow Dockets’: Law, Religion, and States of Emergency”, Canopy Forum/Center for the Study of Law and Religion, December 14, 2022.

“Abortion, Dobbs, and Foreign Law at the U.S. Supreme Court,” Canopy Forum/ Center for the Study of Law and Religion, November 23, 2021.

“Religious Minorities and Religious Freedom At Home — and in Afghanistan,” Canopy Forum/ Center for the Study of Law and Religion, September 2, 2021.

“Mask Mandates and the Uses of the Law,” Canopy Forum/ Center for the Study of Law and Religion, May 10, 2021.

“Of Bans, Sin, and Reconciliation,” Canopy Forum/ Center for the Study of Law and Religion, April 15, 2021.

“The Chorister’s Tale: Religious Freedom Analogies in the COVID Pandemic,” Canopy Forum/ Center for the Study of Law and Religion, March 10, 2021.

“Religious Tests, Religious Freedom, and ‘Animus’ and ‘Bigotry’ at the Supreme Court,” Canopy Forum/Center for the Study of Law and Religion, December 23, 2020.

“Religious Freedom and Subsidiarity in the COVID Pandemic,” Canopy Forum, May 3, 2020.

“Natural Law, Human Rights, and ‘Unalienable Rights’” (edited essay series) Canopy Forum/Center for the Study of Law and Religion, January 2020.

“Rawlsian Public Reason and Religious Leadership of Government Officials,” Canopy Forum/Center for the Study of Law and Religion, November 26, 2019.

“Precedent in Doubt?: Brown v. Board of Education in Recent Judicial Confirmations,” Canopy Forum/Center for the Study of Law and Religion, October 10, 2019.

With Monica Duffy Toft, “Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Pursuit of Religious Harmony in Southeast Asia,” Cambridge Institute on Religion and International Studies (CIRIS) Blog, September 26, 2019.

With Monica Duffy Toft, “The International Diversification of Players Promoting Freedom of Religion or Belief,” Cambridge Institute on Religion and International Studies (CIRIS) Blog , September 26, 2019.

“Loss, Lament, and Prophetic Modernities,” Contending Modernities: Catholic, Muslim, Secular (Notre Dame, IN: Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, August 30, 2016).

“Beyond British Islamophobia?: The Election of Sadiq Khan,” Contending Modernities: Catholic, Muslim, Secular (Notre Dame, IN: Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, May 9, 2016).

“What’s ‘Religious’ About the CAR Crisis?” Religion and Geopolitics Blog, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, September 18, 2014.

With Amy Ziettlow and Naomi Cahn, “Women, Eldercare, and the Honor Commandment,” (Washington, DC: Women, Religion, and the Family Project , Word Faiths Development Dialogue , Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, September 18, 2014.

“Response to “‘Culture’ and ‘Religion’: Immigration, Islams, and Race in 1970s Paris,” Ch. 6 of Naomi Davidson, Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France (Chicago: Religion and Culture Web Forum, The Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, The University of Chicago, Divinity School, 2012)

“Burqas, Blobs, and Bans in ‘la belle France’,” Contending Modernities: Catholic, Muslim, Secular (Notre Dame, IN: Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, May 12, 2011)

“Inequality, Masculinity, and Modernity,” Contending Modernities: Catholic, Muslim, Secular (Notre Dame, IN: Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, March 7, 2011)

“Truth & Reconciliation Amidst Sexual Violence,” Contending Modernities: Catholic, Muslim, Secular (Notre Dame, IN: Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, March 1, 2011)

“Shari’a in America?: Rhetoric and Reality,” Sharia, Family, and Democracy in Nigeria and Beyond (Atlanta: Center for the Study of Law and Religion, December 11, 2010)

“Recent Forum on Nigeria: Religion, Family, and the Weakened State,” Sharia, Family, and Democracy in Nigeria and Beyond (Atlanta: Center for the Study of Law and Religion, December 3, 2010)

“Moderate Sharia in the Secular State?” Sharia, Family, and Democracy in Nigeria and Beyond (Atlanta: Center for the Study of Law and Religion, November 5, 2010)

“Relationships and Recognition,” at The Immanent Frame (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007).

With John Witte, Jr. “Human Rights in A Secular Age?” at The Immanent Frame (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007).