Mark Movsesian

This really isn’t the time to be starting a law school, at least in the United States. Lawyers face uncertain job prospects–the poor economy, outsourcing, and technological innovation continue to reduce demand for lawyers–and fewer and fewer people see a legal education as a good . . . . Continue Reading »

Today, a chamber of the European Court of Human Rights announced its decision in the highly anticipated  Eweida and Others v. United Kingdom , a group of four consolidated cases brought by British Christians who alleged that the U.K. had violated their religious freedom under the European . . . . Continue Reading »

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has announced that it will issue a ruling tomorrow in Eweida and Others v. United Kingdom . As I wrote back in September , when the cases were argued before the Court, the cases could have a significant impact on religious freedom in Europe: The . . . . Continue Reading »

An update on an earlier  post  about an English appellate court decision on the right of Christian employees to decline to work on Sundays. The  decision  was released to the public last week, and it turns out that initial press reports were a bit misleading. The case involved . . . . Continue Reading »

I’ve written here about the  role of Islamic law  in Egypt’s new constitution, which voters approved last month. The constitution represents a significant victory for Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood. But, as  Walter Russell Mead  points out on his blog today, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s an unusual case. Muslim parents are  suing a public school in south London  for refusing to allow their nine-year-old daughter to wear a head scarf to class. That’s not so unusual in itself. Law school casebooks are full of cases in which parents sue public schools for . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s  an interesting report  from NPR on two recent prosecutions for the crime of blasphemy in Greece. In the first, the government brought a blasphemy charge against the poster of a Facebook page that mocks a famous Orthodox monk; the government has since dropped the blasphemy . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s an update to  last week’s post  about a movement to curtail Sunday shopping in Europe. In that post, I speculated that allowing stores to open Sundays might create pressure for observant Christian employees: skip church and report to work, or lose your job. It turns out . . . . Continue Reading »

Every year, it seems, Christmas becomes more commercialized. In NYC this year, we started seeing Christmas decorations in stores in October. In  October . Christmas is starting to lap Halloween. I was thinking about this when I read that the Catholic Church in Italy is working to repeal that . . . . Continue Reading »

One often hears that America’s foreign policy elites don’t understand religion. Mostly secular themselves, they dismiss religion as a factor in world events; at most, they believe, religion operates as a pretext for other, deeper motivations, like politics and economics. This attitude can . . . . Continue Reading »