Saturday, February 07, 2015

Property and Religious Liberty in the Regulatory/Welfare State

"[T]he greatest threats to religious liberty" in modern America "stem from the insufficient protection of individual liberty in economic affairs." Prof. Richard Epstein

Think about this. Most of the religious liberty cases arising today are cases, like Hobby Lobby, involving extensive regulation of property and economic enterprises.

We will spend 2 or 3 classes studying federal civil rights laws, such as RFRA and RLUIPA, and their application to religious liberty claims in cases involving primarily land use but also economic enterprise.