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This book provides an in-depth, scholarly reflection on the challenges that arise in guaranteeing religious freedom and protection of the rights of religious minorities in law and practice.
List of contents
Foreword -
Adv. Meir Linzen (President of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists) Prologue: The Boundaries of Religious Freedom in Democracies
(Raphael Cohen-Almagor) Introduction: Religious Freedom and Religious Minorities in Contemporary Europe and Beyond (
Aleksandra Gliszczy¿ska-Grabias and Aviad Hacohen) Part 1: Jewish and Muslim Minorities as Vulnerable Groups under International Human Rights Law 1. The ECtHR, the CJEU and the Protection of Religious Minorities: A Mixed Scorecard (
Kristin Henrard2. Strengthening the Protection of Religious Minorities by Establishing a New Universal Human Rights Treaty: A Necessary or Redundant Effort? (
Aleksandra Gliszczy¿ska-Grabias) 3. The Concept of Vulnerability in the Context of Religious Minorities
(Gräyna Baranowska) Part 2: Duty of Religious Neutrality and Impartiality 4. Free Speech and Religious Sensitivity: Between Today's State-Sponsored SLAPPing and Careful Balancing of Competing Interests
(Marcin Górski) 5. Employers' Duties to Respect the Religious Freedom of Employees at the Workplace - Recent Developments (
Ioanna Tourkochoriti) Part 3: Shechita and Traditional Circumcision Bans(
Iddo Porat) 7. Animal Welfare and the Right to Freedom of Religion Before the CJEU: The Case of Stunning and Ritual Slaughter (
Gerhard van der Schyff) 8. Ritual Male Circumcision and Children's Rights
(Rhona Schuz) Part 4: The Constitutional Boundaries of Religious Accommodation of Jewish and Muslim Minorities: National Perspectives 9. The Constitutional Boundaries of Religious Accommodation: The Israeli Perspective
(Aviad Hacohen) 10. Jewish and Muslim Claims to Religious Freedom, Participation and Benefits under Article 4 (1) and (2) of the German Basic Law - and their Constitutional Limits
(Hans Michael Heinig) 11. Recent Developments in Belgian Case Law on the Regulation of Relations between the State and Religions
(Stéphanie Wattier) 12. Lethargy in the UK: How Not to Accommodate Religion or Belief (
Russel Sandberg) 13.
Laïcité, the legal framework for the exercise of minority religions in France
(Francois Finck) Epilogue: The Amicus Curiae Opinion of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists for the CJEU Shechita case (
Joseph Weiler)
About the author
Professor Aleksandra Gliszczy¿ska-Grabias is a Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.
Professor Aviad Hacohen is President of the Academic Center for Law and Science and former Dean of its Law School; former Lecturer on Constitutional Law and Jewish Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Senior Research Fellow, Van Leer Institute Jerusalem, Israel.
