Press Release: March 23, 2017 From: Columbia Law School, The Public Rights/Private Conscience Project Subject: EEOC Proposed Guidance Shows We Can Protect Religious Freedom & LGBTQ Rights Contact: Liz Boylan, eboyla@law.columbia.edu, 212.854.0167 March 23, 2017: While the President and Congress consider acts to expand religious exemptions at the expense of LGBTQ and other rights, a proposed […]
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Missouri Law Professors Maintain Constitutional Amendment SJR 39 Would Violate the Establishment Clause
April 12th, 2016
Link to Document/Text here: http://bit.ly/1TOUnSu Media Contact: Elizabeth Reiner Platt Associate Director, Public Rights/Private Conscience Project ep2801@columbia.edu April 12, 2016 Fifteen law professors, most from universities in Missouri, issued a memorandum today arguing that Missouri’s Senate Joint Resolution 39, which would amend the Missouri constitution to create new and very broad religious liberty rights, is […]
Law Professors Condemn Mississippi and Georgia Religious Liberty Laws as Unconstitutional Over-Reaching
April 5th, 2016
Read the Mississippi Memorandum here: http://bit.ly/1SNYHiz Read the Georgia Memorandum here: http://bit.ly/1pGlmmO Media Contact: Elizabeth Reiner Platt Associate Director, Public Rights/Private Conscience Project ep2801@columbia.edu April 5, 2016—More than a dozen law professors with expertise in constitutional and civil rights law have signed memoranda published […]
Over 50 Legal Scholars Urge President Obama to Deny Religious Exemption Clause in LGBT Executive Order
July 14th, 2014
More than 50 legal scholars today strongly urged President Obama to resist calls for an overly broad religious exemption in a proposed executive order prohibiting sexual orientation and/or gender identity discrimination by federal contractors. The effort is being spearheaded by Columbia Law School’s Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, as part of its recently launched […]
The Supreme Court is supposed to be the final word on our legal questions, but apparently it reserves the right to change its mind at a moment’s notice. When the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores on Monday June 30th, holding that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act required the government […]
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