Professor Carl H. Esbeck and historian Jonathan Den Hartog are the editors of a new book containing 21 essays that detail disestablishment in the original 13 states, as well as similar events in soon-to-be-admitted states like Vermont and Kentucky, and three Catholic disestablishments including Missouri. Myths, half-truths, and downright errors surround popular notions of American church-state relations. Disestablishment and Religious…
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Professor Esbeck Publishes New Article
Professor Carl H. Esbeck’s article, “Stating a Claim Under the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses: What Trump v. Hawaii Can Tell Us,” was just published in the Journal of Church & State. Little recognized is that the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Hawaii – the case upholding President Trump’s “Muslim immigration ban” – is also a case about religious…
Professor Esbeck to Participate in Conference on Religion and Politics in Early America
Professor Carl H. Esbeck is a participant in the Conference on Religion and Politics in Early America, to be held March 1-4, 2018, at Washington University in St. Louis. He is one of two organizers of a five-panel series entitled Dissent and Disestablishment in the Early American States, 1776 – 1820s. Professor Esbeck is also presenting a paper on Virginia’s…
Professor Esbeck Comments on Case about Racist Bullying at Texas School
A former student and his parents are suing a religious school in Texas for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress over failure to discipline other students for racist bullying. The school has moved to dismiss the lawsuit invoking “ecclesiastical abstention.” This principle holds that religious institutions are not subject to civil jurisdiction as to matters that concern their internal…
Professor Esbeck Speaks about First Amendment Religion Clauses at Moot Court Championship
On January 25, Professor Carl H. Esbeck spoke twice to 16 teams of students competing at the Moot Court Championship finals hosted by the University of Houston Law Center. He spoke on the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment and the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, a case that originated in Columbia,…