Mark Movsesian is the Frederick A. Whitney Professor of Contract Law and the Director of the Center for Law and Religion at St. John's University School of Law. He writes and teaches in law and religion, contracts and international and comparative law.
Mark Movsesian
Latest from Mark Movsesian
Coffee Shops and Political Combat
A controversy in Brooklyn
Religion in the Military
On the impossibility of neutral classifications
A Short Take on Chiles v. Salazar
Another religious freedom case in a free speech guise
The Fifth Circuit and the Louisiana 10 Commandments Law
The en banc court pushes pause--for now
Protest, Worship, and the Core of Free Exercise
On the anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in Minnesota
Free Speech, Religious Offense, and a Transatlantic Divide
Balancing free expression and the dignity of religious believers in Europe.
Remember Noriega?
Why Maduro's Prosecution Can Continue Even if the US Violated International Law
Jefferson, Wine, and the Wall of Separation
The Dangers of Amateur History at the Court
Religion and Foreign-Policy Realism
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the New U.S. Role in the South Caucasus
The Collapse of Consent
Can "Consent of the Governed" Sustain a Fractured Society?
More on Coercion in Mahmoud
Implications for the Ten Commandments cases
Religion at the Supreme Court
Three Cases from OT 2024
Confession and the Constitution
Washington State's new law on clergy reporting in child abuse cases.
Remembering David Souter
Recollections of a true gentleman
A City upon a Hill
On original and traditional meanings
Can a Public School Ask Students to State their Religion?
Overzealous school administrators should think about students' privacy rights.
"The Best Man," Sixty Years Later
Gore Vidal's classic film on presidential nominations holds up
Some Quick Thoughts on the Oklahoma Charter School Case
St. Isidore Catholic School is caught in a legal dilemma
Traditionalizing Everything
I review Prof. Jack Balkin's new book
How America Moderates Religion
A pattern over time
Can the NYS Thruway Ban Chick-fil-A?
A bill would require fast-food restaurants on the state highway to open seven days a week
Why Do We Have An Establishment Clause?
Speaker Mike Johnson was both right and wrong
On Groff v. DeJoy and 303 Creative v. Elenis
Not blockbusters, maybe, but important cases nonetheless
New Federal Guidelines on Prayer in Public School
Hamlet without the prince?
Sunday Closing Laws and New Year's Eve
A federal court holds that New York can restrict alcohol sales when NYE falls on a Sunday
A Likely Win for Free Speech
Last week's argument at the Supreme Court in 303 Creative v. Elenis.
Why Rationalist Religions Failed
Reviewing "The Church of Saint Thomas Paine"
Armenia, On Its Own?
The West's indifference so far results from hypocrisy, cynicism, and shortsightedness about its own interests
Has America Given Up on Free Speech?
A review of Mchangama's "Free Speech."
On the Leak in Dobbs
How it differs from past SCOTUS leaks and why it poses such a threat
The Nones and the Religion Clauses
Two new empirical studies on the influence of Nones in law and religion cases
Tradition and Compelling Interests in Religion Cases
Justice Kavanaugh argues for historical practice as a check on judicial intuition
Praying on the 50-Yard Line
The Court agrees to hear an important First Amendment case
Why the Court Is Avoiding a Ruling on Religious Exemptions in the Vaccine Context
Are the justices exercising the passive virtues?
On The Merchant of Venice
Why Shakespeare's play about an absurd contract dispute continues to fascinate lawyers
Restricting Worship During Covid
What the cases reveal
A Victory for Religious Freedom?
The Supreme Court decides the Catholic adoption services case
Goodbye to Doux Commerce
Corporate America today doesn't avoid political fights. It seeks them out.
"The Common Objects of their Love"
President Biden channels Augustine.
Don Drakeman on Establishment Clause Miracles
An obscure Christmas carol and our even more obscure Establishment Clause jurisprudence
More Church-Covid Cases at the Supreme Court
A new battle in America's culture wars
Last Week's Argument in the Philadelphia Foster-Care Case
A perplexing oral argument at SCOTUS
Did Christians Invent Religious Liberty?
A podcast on religious tolerance in early Christian thought
