In a recent Canopy Forum book review, Steven T. Collis writes: "I appreciate Drakeman’s contribution to the literature and my thinking. However, in the end, the boldness and clarity of his thesis prevents me from joining him." Read more: canopyforum.org/2026/10/21/b… #BookReview

In a recent Canopy Forum article, Amy Stambach writes: "Religious freedom is strongest when public institutions can show whose freedom they protected, from what burden, and at whose cost." Read more: canopyforum.org/2026/10/20/r… #ReligiousFreedom #PublicInstitutions #FreedomRights

According to Nathan S. Chapman's recent Canopy Forum article, "Americans approaching the religiosity of the founding must begin by resisting the temptation to read our present cultural and political disputes" onto the founders. Read more: canopyforum.org/2026/10/16/c… #FoundingFathers

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In a recent CF review, Eric Wang writes that "Because many of Drakeman’s data points do not support his public-worship thesis... I disagree with Drakeman’s claim... I cannot but still feel the gravitational pull, or at least nudge" of his book. Read more: canopyforum.org/2026/10/14/d…

According to Sai Santosh Kumar Kolluru's recent Canopy Forum article, "since guṇas are the primal qualities of nature, a discussion on these values is incomplete without the guṇa-dharmas of a Hindu-American lawyer." Learn more: canopyforum.org/2026/10/12/d… #LawAndCulture

Join the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at 4:30 P.M. on October 15 in Tull Auditorium for the 2026 Sheth Lecture in India Studies "Dynamic Equilibrium in the Indian Constitution" and delivered by Dr. Deepa Das Acevedo, Associate Professor of Law at Emory School of Law.

Join the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at 4:30 P.M. on October 15 in Tull Auditorium for the 2026 Sheth Lecture in India Studies "Dynamic Equilibrium in the Indian Constitution" and delivered by Dr. Deepa Das Acevedo, Associate Professor of Law at Emory School of Law.

According to Steven D. Smith's CF review, he "only meant to suggest that Drakeman’s historical case does not so much settle the matter of the meaning of the free exercise clause as present further questions to be addressed and debated." Read more: canopyforum.org/2026/10/07/d…

In a recent Canopy Forum article, Jo Chitlik writes that modern conflict is "not only legal, but also media-driven, psychologically charged, and shaped by the weaponization of social media platforms to control the narrative." Read more here: canopyforum.org/2026/10/06/b… #Litigation

Ramazan Özgü's CF article reads: "Protecting the continuity of worship online would respect its dignity, the community that offers it, and the person who can see the church tower but cannot cross the threshold." Learn more about digital religious freedom: canopyforum.org/2026/10/02/l…

According to Whittney Barth's CF review, Donald L. Drakeman's book "is courageous and compelling. Recognizing that does not make its implications any less difficult, even for those of us who do not subscribe to a strict originalist approach..." Read more: canopyforum.org/2026/09/30/t…

Join the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at 4:30 P.M. on October 15 in Tull Auditorium for the 2026 Sheth Lecture in India Studies "Dynamic Equilibrium in the Indian Constitution" and delivered by Dr. Deepa Das Acevedo, Associate Professor of Law at Emory School of Law.

In a recent Canopy Forum article, Aaron J. Walayat writes: "It is with some familiarity, and perhaps some contempt, that we look to revolutionary Pennsylvania as a sign of things to come and the legacy of an American politics..." Read more: canopyforum.org/2026/09/28/l… #Politics

In a CF review, Andrew Koppelman writes that Drakeman's "findings are not sufficient reason to revolutionize our constitutional rules. Drakeman himself shrinks from some of his own conclusions, which give religion even narrower protection..." Read more: canopyforum.org/2026/09/23/d…

According to Luca Pietro Vanoni, "the American “exception” presents itself simultaneously as irreducible difference and missionary vocation via the grammar of domestic constitutional identity and the language legitimizing external projection..."Read on CF: canopyforum.org/2026/09/21/t…

Jeffery Pojanowski's recent Canopy Forum article "addresses two questions of legal and political theory in connection to constitutionalism in general, and in the United States in particular." Read more here: canopyforum.org/2026/09/17/h… #LegalTheory #PoliticalTheory #Constitutionalism

In a recent Canopy Forum article, John Witte, Jr. writes: "Donald L. Drakeman’s powerful new book poses a seismic challenge to constitutional originalists who champion sweeping free exercise rights today." Learn more: canopyforum.org/2026/09/15/t… #Constitution #Originalism

Samuel L. Bray's recent Canopy Forum article "analyzes 'scandal' in Anglican canon law... given the history and theology that inform the concept of 'scandal,' as a matter of Anglican canon law..." Learn more: canopyforum.org/2026/09/13/s… #AnglicanCanonLaw #AnglicanChurch #ChurchLaw

Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV's book Gods, Judges, and Presidents "moves through comparative mythology, classical political thought, the Enlightenment, and modern psychology before returning to judges, presidents, and legislatures." Read more on CF: canopyforum.org/2026/09/11/g…