ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

Not Dead, Just Sleeping: Canada's Prohibition on Blasphemous Libel as a Case Study in Obsolete Legislation
Topic: Canada's Blasphemy Statute and Its Future
Published in: 41 University of British Columbia Law Review 193 (2008)

Civil Liberties Advocacy Organizations in Canada: A Survey and Critique (working paper version)
Topic: Canadian civil liberties groups in comparison to the ACLU
Published in: Oklahoma City University Law Review (forthcoming 2007)

Church, State, and Charter: Canada's Hidden Establishment Clause
Topic: Separation of Church and State in Canada
Published in: 14 Tulsa Journal of Comparative & International Law 25 (2006)

Sexual Exploitation and the Criminal Code
Topic: The need for reform of a provision in the Canadian Criminal Code regarding sexual exploitation of young persons.
Published in: 43 Alberta Law Review 1057 (2006)

Creating a Federal Inmate Grievance Tribunal
Topic: A proposal to create a specialized tribunal to hear inmate complaints in Canada
Published in: 48 Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 287 (2006)

Section 38 and the Open Courts Principle
Topic: A provision of the Canada Evidence Act that allows the government to keep a wide variety of information and even proceedings secret.
Published in: 2005 University of New Brunswick Law Journal 218

Strict Scrutiny for Denominational Preferences: Larson in Retrospect
Topic: The U.S. Supreme Court's Establishment Clause doctrine that states that laws preferring some religions over other religions is held to a higher standard of scrutiny than laws preferring religion over non-religion.
Published in: 8 New York City Law Review 53 (2005)

The Religion Provisions of the Nebraska Constitution: An Analysis and Litigation History (PDF)
Topic: As per title.
Published in: Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. XIX (2003-2004)

A Merit Badge for Homophobia? Boy Scouts Earn the Right to Discriminate in Dale v. Boy Scouts of America
Topic: This law review article discusses the Supreme Court's Dale decision, where it held that the Boy Scouts' freedom of association gave them the right to exclude gay members.
Published in: Law and Sexuality, Volume 10, p. 93 (2001)

Agnostic in Principle, Atheist in Practice
Topic: This short essay proposes a method of deciding between agnosticism and atheism. It also argues that "God-claims" must be treated in the same manner as any other type of existence claim.
Published in: Skeptic, Vol. 7.3 (1999)

The Irrelevant "God Debate"
Topic: This essay argues that for the "God Debate" to be relevant to everyday people, it must be conducted in a more practical, less abstract manner.
Published in: Free Inquiry, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2001)

Sacred Texts: The Myth of Historical Literalism
Topic: This essay examines the history of both Biblical and Constitutional literalism and argues that each has a much more complex history than is commonly understood.
Published in: The Humanist v. 61, n. 5
Date: September/October 2001

Ceremonial Deisms
Topic: This shorter essay discusses ceremonial deisms, the little things government does to endorse religion such as "In God We Trust" on coins.
Published in: The Humanist v. 62, n. 1
Date: January/February 2002

Finding a God-less Morality
Topic: This essay examines whether morality can exist without religion.
Published in: The Humanist v. 62, n. 5
Date: September/October 2002

Sixty Years of Mere Christianity
Topic: C.S. Lewis' famous book Mere Christianity
Published in: Free Inquiry
Date: February/March 2004