ACS and the West Virginia Law Review are pleased to announce that the papers written for “The Religion Clauses in the 21st Century” symposium held at the West Virginia University College of Law are now available.

Written by scholars in the law of church and state, the symposium papers reflect a variety of perspectives on issues organized according to these themes: “The Religion Clauses in Institutional Contexts,” “Government Religious Expression,” “Accommodation of Religion,” and “Religion and Politics.” Two of the papers reflect the views of the featured speakers: Florida State University Law Professor Steven Gey’s piece prepares us for “Life After the Establishment Clause” while University of Michigan Law Professor Douglas Laycock’s article explores the topic of “Substantive Neutrality Revisited.” The set of articles was published in Fall 2007 in Volume 110 of the West Virginia Law Review, which is dedicated to Professor Gey.

To assist you in identifying articles of particular interest, each has been briefly described by symposium organizers William P. Marshall, Solicitor General of Ohio and William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law; Vivian E. Hamilton, now Associate Professor at the College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law; and John E. Taylor, Associate Professor, West Virginia University College of Law. As they write, “[f]ew subjects in American constitutional law capture the public’s interest and inflame its passions more than the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses. The recent history of those Clauses has given the public and the legal academy plenty to talk about.” With the joint release of these papers with the West Virginia Law Review, ACS and its Religion Clauses Issue Group hope to inform the discussion about the meaning and interpretation of the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses.

To access the symposium papers, please click here. To watch video of interviews with panelists from the Symposium, click here.

ACS expresses its thanks to the symposium organizers, to the symposium presenters and writers, to the West Virginia University College of Law, and to the dedicated editors and staff of the West Virginia Law Review.