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Justice Brennan Lives

William Bentley Ball

The late Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. was apotheosized at his death by the New York Times for the rich legacy the Times deemed he had conferred on American...

The Byzantine World of Religious Jurisprudence

William Bentley Ball

Securing Religious Liberty: Principles for Judicial Interpretation of the Religion Clauses By Jesse H. Choper University of Chicago Press, 198 pages, $24.95 The author, one of the nation’s major...

The Church-State Game: A Symposium on Kiryas Joel

William Bentley Ball

On June 27, 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet. The Court ruled that the New York State legislature...