From: Timothy Daniel Lytton [mailto:tlyt...@gsu.edu] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 10:57 AM To: Volokh, Eugene <vol...@law.ucla.edu> Subject: AALS program on Law & Religion
I am writing with information about an AALS Session that will be co-sponsored by the Jewish Law and Islamic Law sections at the upcoming annual meeting in San Francisco: Is There Room in the U.S. Legal System for Halacha and Sharia? Family Law, Public Accommodations, Antitrust, and Arbitration. The session will be on Wednesday, January 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. The panelists will be: Moderator: Michael Helfand Associate Professor of Law Pepperdine University School of Law Panelists: Michael J. Broyde Professor of Law Emory University School of Law Haider Ala Hamoudi Associate Professor of Law Associate Dean of Research & Faculty Development University of Pittsburgh School of Law Asifa Quraishi-Landes Associate Professor of Law University of Wisconsin Law School Barak Richman Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law & Professor of Business Administration Duke University School of Law Topics for discussion will include: (a) the legal controversy over government regulation of the practice of metzitzah b'peh in New York and its implications for other forms of ritual practice in the American Jewish and Islamic communities (ritual practice v. public health regulation) (b) the enforceability of the Islamic mahr that a husband is required to give a wife upon concluding the marriage contract (religious law v. commercial law), (c) the controversy over single-sex swim hours at public swimming pools (religious regulation of modesty v. laws governing public accommodation) (d) the regulation of clergy placement and employment terms in congregations by rabbinic professional associations and its implications for other religious communities (communal self-governance v. antitrust), and (e) judicial approval of religious arbitration in the recent dispute between Luis Garcia and the Church of Scientology and its implications for religious arbitration in Jewish and Islamic communities (communal self-governance v. due process rights). The panel will consider these topics not only from the perspective of U.S. law's accommodation of religious law but also the capacity and obligation of religious law to accommodate secular legal norms in ways that may reduce tension. Audience participation in the discussion will be most welcome. I hope you will consider attending and spreading the word to anyone whom you think might be interested.
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