Designed to be used either as a primary text or with any Law and Religion or First Amendment text, Law and Religion: Cases in Context presents descriptions and discussions of the landmark cases in law and religion and the First Amendment. Cases are selected from the leading religion and First Amendment casebooks, and the authors provide insights into the significance of each while revealing its context and, for many, details about what happened after the case was concluded. This unique text will intrigue students and engage their interest with: - Accessible prose and interesting illustrations; - Cases that involve issues that continue to confound the courts: creation science and evolution; public religious symbols like the cross and the cr che; private religious clothing like the yarmulke and the khimar; tax policy and religion; - Engaging characters, such as: Guy Ballard, who told customers that he was chosen by Saint Germain as a divine messenger and possessed supernatural healing powers that they could purchase; Officer and Doctor Simcha Goldman, who wore a yarmulke to the psychology clinic until an irritated military attorney complained to Goldman's superiors that the yarmulke was not permitted under Air Force regulations; Kimberlie Webb, a Philadelphia police officer who lost her efforts to wear a headscarf while in uniform and on duty; Ronald Rosenberger, who successfully challenged the University of Virginia's denial of funding to his evangelical publication, Wide Awake; - Insights from leading law and religion scholars of diverse professional, religious, geographical, and institutional backgrounds. In her role as editor, Leslie C. Griffin, who holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale University as well as a J.D. from Stanford Law School, has brought together an impressive group of contributors to create Law and Religion: Cases in Context.

The fifth edition adds a new author. Andrew L. Seidel is a constitutional attorney that has spent a decade litigating religion clause cases. He's author of The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American and American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom and Vice President of Strategic Communications at Americans United for Separation of Church and State. This edition was updated to include important new Supreme Court cases on state funding of churches and the religious freedom issues associated with COVID. The fifth edition continues the book's interdisciplinary approach to law and religion, its student-friendly notes and questions, and its inclusion of numerous non-Supreme Court cases from a variety of state, federal, and international courts. The chapters highlight the impact of the Court's most recent cases on the subject matter of law and religion. 1. Free Exercise of Religion identifies the ever-increasing diversity of American religion versus non-religion. It includes United States v. Seeger, as a lead conscientious objection case explaining what the Court means by "religion." 2. Introduction to Establishment includes the Court's decision upholding government-sponsored prayer in Town of Greece v. Galloway, and asks how Establishment Clause jurisprudence has changed since Galloway. 3. What is an Establishment of Religion? examines establishment precedents about religious symbols and monuments, public funding of religion, and religious speech. The chapter includes the American Legion case upholding the peace cross on public property. It focuses on the Court's recent approaches to the funding of religion in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Pauley, Espinoza v. Montana, and Carson v. Makin. 4. Constitutional and Statutory Protection of Free Exercise provides extensive coverage of the Court's free exercise case, Smith, and its interpretation in Fulton v. Philadelphia, which upheld religious freedom to discriminate against LGBTQ parents. It then reviews the Court's RFRA decisions, RLUIPA cases, and the new law about religion and COVID. 5. Conscience, Complicity, and Conscientious Objection relates Hobby Lobby to the Court's order searching a compromise between religious nonprofits and the government in Zubik v. Burwell, and the expansion of the contraceptive mandate in Little Sisters of the Poor. This chapter explores military, medical, and legal conscientious objection and analyzes the increasing number of complicity claims faced by courts hearing RFRA cases. It also includes the case of Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. 6. Conflicts between Individual and Institutional Religious Freedom explores the Court's increasing protection of institutional over individual religious freedom by looking at three topics: church property disputes, employment discrimination, and torts. The employment discrimination section includes an overview of Title VII's religious discrimination provisions and the Court's decision interpreting them in EEOC v. Abercrombie and Fitch. The chapter also explores in detail the repercussions of Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC, and the new ministerial exception case, Morrissey-Berru, to see what freedom religions enjoy in the employment setting. 7. Comparative Religious Freedom includes cases from other countries that parallel the subjects already studied in earlier chapters of the casebook. A section on religious garb, including a Turkish case about hijab bans, recalls Abercrombie. A section on blasphemy connects to the free (religious) speech jurisprudence. Conscience receives extensive treatment because it has become so important in U.S. law. Chapter 8 includes Bayatyan v. Armenia, in which the European Court of Human Rights recognized a religious freedom right to military conscientious objection for a Jehovah's Witness who objected to military service. It also presents a British case similar in reasoning to the Kentucky clerk's case, Miller v. Davis. And it introduces a case that has been described as "Australia's Hobby Lobby." Thus we consider the role of religious exemptions in international law. 8. Religion and Politics focuses on same-sex marriage, exploring the role that presidents' and justices' religion played in the marriage equality discussion. The majority opinion and dissents from Obergefell v. Hodges are highlighted; all the justices' opinions referred to religion. The tax section includes the constant debates about tax law's restrictions on political activity. 9. Teaching about Religion and Science includes efforts to add religion classes and remove evolution from public schools. 10. The Old and New Law of Religion contrasts the Court's treatment of the traditional Amish faith in Yoder with updated information about the Nones' religious identity and political activity. The Nones are the fastest-growing "religious" group in the United States.

Practicing Bioethics Law provides basic readings in the field of bioethics law, including court cases, statutes, administrative regulations, briefs, and law review and other academic articles. The text presents theoretical debates about the latest bioethical subjects as well as practice-based materials that expose students to a wide range of possible bioethics-related careers. The book's companion website provides practice documents, videos, pictures, scientific materials and other information that is too complex to include in a traditional casebook. The authors combined the book and the website so readers could learn more about the practice of bioethics law at the same time they are beginning to understand the theory and content of bioethics law. The second edition includes updated materials on the meaning of informed consent, death and dying, reproductive rights, the ways in which advances in genetics (including CRISPR) affect patent and other rights, genetic editing, and neuroethics, as well as discussions of the ways in which bioethics has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.