A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Thursday, September 21, 2017

RELIGION, LAW, AND THE STATE

Cecile Laborde, Liberalism's Religion (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 2017) (From the book jacket: "Cecile Laborde . . . argues that a simple analogy between the good and religion misrepresent the complex relationship among religion, law, and the state. Religion serves as more than a statement of belief about what is true, or a code of moral and ethical conduct. It also refers to comprehensive ways of life, political theories of justice, modes of voluntary association, and vulnerable collective identities.").