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Law and Religion, by Russell Sandberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 216pp (including index) (£19.99 paperback). ISBN: 978-0-521-17718-4.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Javier García Oliva
Javier García Oliva*
Affiliation:
University of Manchester School of Law & Research Associate, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University
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Legal Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 160 - 166
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44. Among others, Doe, N Law and Religion in Europe (Oxford: OUP, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Rivers, J The Law of Organized Religions (Oxford: OUP, 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Bradney, A Law and Faith in a Sceptical Age (Oxford: Routledge Cavendish, 2009)Google Scholar; Vickers, L Religious Freedom, Religious Discrimination and the Workplace (Oxford: Hart, 2008)Google Scholar; Addison, N Religious Discrimination and Hatred Law (Oxford: Routledge, 2006)Google Scholar; Ahdar, R and Leigh, I Religious Freedom in the Liberal State (Oxford: OUP, 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

45. For instance, Spain and Italy, where Derecho Eclesiástico and Diritto Eclesiastico have been taught for decades.

46. Some of its members have offered courses in ‘Law and Religion’ in different British universities. For instance, David Harte has been teaching it at the University of Newcastle for a number of years and I did the same, first in Bangor and from this year onwards, as part of a wider course, ‘Modern Constitutionalism’, at the University of Manchester.

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48. Its editor is Professor Mark Hill QC.

49. Its editor is John Duddington.

50. I taught ‘Law and Religion’ at the University of Bangor from 2005 to 2010.

51. Such as Doe, N The Legal Framework of the Church of England: A Critical Study in a Comparative Context (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Evans, MD Religious Liberty and International Law in Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)Google Scholar; Hill, M Ecclesiastical Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd edn, 2007)Google Scholar.

52. [1980] 1 WLR 1565.

53. See J García Oliva ‘Church, State and establishment in the United Kingdom in the 21st Century: anachronism or idiosyncrasy?’[2010] Public Law 482–504.

54. (1867) LR 1 Sc & Div 568.

55. [2007] EWHC 1698 (Admin).

56. Eg R v Secretary of State for Education and Employment and others, ex parte Williamson[2005] UKHL 15; R (on the application of Begum) v Headteacher and Governors of Denbigh High School[2006] UKHL 15; New Testament Church of God v Stewart[2007] EWCA Civ 1004; R (on the Application of Swami Suryananda) v Welsh Minister[2007] EWCH (Admin) 1736, etc.

57. See for instance Handyside v United Kingdom (Application no 5493/72) and the case of Lautsi and Others v Italy (Application no 30814/06).

58. See Sandberg, R and Doe, N ‘the strange death of blasphemy’ (2008) 71 (6) Modern Law Review 971 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

59. See Oliva, J García ‘the legal protection of believers and beliefs in the United Kingdom’ (2007) 9 Ecclesiastical Law Journal 66 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Jeremy, A ‘Religious offences’ (2003) 7 Ecclesiastical Law Journal 127 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

60. Education Act 1996 s 375(3).

61. Ibid, s 390.

62. Ibid, s 390.

63. Sch 20.

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