LRRP and partners filed an amicus brief arguing that Free Exercise Rights would be burdened by Indiana's Fetal Tissue Disposition Law.

Historians showed the Indiana Court of Appeals that faith-based support for abortion access has deep historical roots, answering the State's claim that the plaintiffs' beliefs were insincere.

Liz Reiner Platt details our nation’s current trajectory, in which conservative Christians are able to shut down government programs they oppose, while religious minorities are left unprotected from threats to their religious practice.

LRRP joined Muslim Advocates, Americans United, and 28 other organizations in warning the Supreme Court that a broad First Amendment exemption from anti-discrimination law would fall hardest on religious minorities.

This memo provides a brief overview of religious liberty laws, details the history of legal claims using a religious liberty right to abortion, and explores how such claims might be made today.

This report presents new research that hospitals across the region strictly regulate the provision of abortion, leading to delays and denials of care for patients facing severe pregnancy complications.

This legal explainer explores how religious exemption measures threaten more than just LGBTQ and reproductive health, and can limit or significantly undermine workers’ rights, public health, environmental welfare, emergency response, religious pluralism, and other crucial interests.

This report shows that the Supreme Court’s COVID-era opinions have created a hierarchy of constitutional rights, with religious rights at the top.

LRRP argued in the Sixth Circuit that a religious exemption from Title VII would shift the cost of the employer's beliefs onto the employee it discriminated against.

Church-state scholars argued that Santa Clara County sorted activities by health risk rather than religion, and that exempting worship alone would unconstitutionally privilege it.

Church-state scholars urged the Supreme Court to leave Kentucky's school closure order undisturbed, arguing that exempting only religious schools would itself establish religion.

This report offers policymakers guidance on how to protect freedom of conscience for all, not merely for a favored few. The report is accompanied by a media guide for journalists suggesting ways to think about and hone questions for policymakers and advocates claiming to protect religious liberty.

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 Faculty Director Katherine Franke penned this amicus brief in support of Rev. Kaji Douša, who sued DHS, CBP, ICE, and the people leading these agencies after they retaliated against her for providing pastoral services to migrants and refugees.

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 arguing that rules letting employers opt out of the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive coverage requirement invert religious liberty law by making employees bear the cost of their employer's beliefs.