Professor Katherine Franke joins amicus brief with eight other scholars of church-state law filed in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia.

LRRP Director Elizabeth Reiner Platt explores the Trump administration’s continued assaults on progressive rights of conscience.

A comprehensive report documenting the many contexts in which people of faith engaged in humanitarian and social justice work have fought for the right to exercise their religion.

LRRP and fellow legal scholars file brief in case in which the Department of Justice rejects religious liberty rights of non-profit that provides safe space to injection drug users.

Today, during his National Day of Prayer remarks, President Trump announced a finalized rule that creates expansive legal protections for healthcare providers with specific religious beliefs, including opposition to abortion, sterilization, end-of-life care, and healthcare for LGBTQ persons.

Nationally recognized law professors with expertise in religious liberty law filed an amicus brief in the appeal of the convictions of four sanctuary activists who were found guilty in the crime of leaving water and food in the desert for migrants.

Prof. Katherine Franke joined an amicus brief in a case challenging rules that exempt employers with religious/moral objections from compliance with the contraceptive coverage requirement of the Affordable Care Act. The brief explains that these rules conflict with constitutional religious liberty law by requiring employees to bear the cost of their employer's beliefs.

LRRP’s Founding Director, Katherine Franke, filed two amicus briefs in support of activists from the migrant relief group No More Deaths.

Five prominent professors of law and religion, including LRRP’s Founding Director, Katherine Franke, filed an amicus brief in support of Dr. Scott Warren, a humanitarian aid worker who faces up to twenty years in prison for providing food and shelter to migrants crossing the Arizona desert.

This report outlines the ways in which a guidance document issued by the Trump-era Attorney General interprets and expands religious liberty laws in a way that elevates the right to religious exemptions over other legal and constitutional rights. The guidance has been used to limit access to reproductive health care and threatens to limit enforcement of various health, employment, and anti-discrimination protections.

This report presents data showing that in many states, women of color disproportionately give birth in Catholic hospitals that place religious restrictions on care—even during medical emergencies. Such restrictions stand to exacerbate the existing disparities women of color already face in accessing quality reproductive health care.

The report details the increased risks LGBT older adults face as a result of recent religious exemption laws and policies.

Ashe McGovern, Legislative and Policy Director of Columbia Law School’s Law, Rights, and Religion Project testified before the New York City Council Committee on Women’s Issues on a bill that would require several city agencies to undergo training on “implicit bias, discrimination, cultural competency and structural inequity, including with respect to gender, race and sexual orientation.”

The Washington Supreme Court has issued a significant and unanimous decision in the ongoing dispute—being litigated in courts across the country—over whether antidiscrimination law must yield to the religious beliefs of business owners opposed to marriage equality. LRRP Director Liz Platt writes for Religion Dispatches on the implications of this decision.

This resource addresses the way the Trump Administration and the rhetoric of "Religious Liberty" engaged by Trump during his campaign may impact the relationship between the Church and the State during Trump's Presidency.

This report shows how recent legislative efforts to expand religious liberty rights, such as the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), allow religious objectors to violate laws that protect against pregnancy, familial status, and marital status discrimination.

This resource provides an overview of the types of bills that were introduced over the 2015-2016 Legislative Session.

Founding Director Katherine Franke testifies before the congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Hearing on H.R. 2802, the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA).

After granting cert in and consolidating seven cases, receiving at least seventy amicus briefs in addition to those filed by the parties, hearing oral argument, and requesting additional briefing, the Supreme Court has finally decided…. not to decide.

LRRP Director Liz Platt on how proposed religious exemption laws could renew religious opposition to desegregation.