Articles & Chapters

Row of Books

Robin Fretwell Wilson, Common Ground Lawmaking: Lessons of Peaceful Coexistence from Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Utah Compromise, ____ Conn. L. Rev. ____ (forthcoming)

William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson, Prospects for Common Ground: Introduction, in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson eds. 2018 

Elder Von G. Keetch, Toward Collaboration: A Perspective from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson eds. 2018)

Alan Brownstein, Choosing Among Nonnegotiated Surrender, Negotiated Protection of Liberty and Equality, or Learning and Earning Empathy, in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson eds. 2018)  

Douglas Laycock,  Liberty and Justice for All, in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson eds. 2018)

Thomas C. Berg, Freedom to Serve: Religious Organizational Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Common Good, in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson eds. 2018)

Robin Fretwell Wilson, Bathrooms and Bakers: How Sharing the Public Square Is the Key to a Truce in the Culture Wars, in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson eds. 2018)

Andrew M. Koppelman, The Joys of Mutual Contempt, in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson eds. 2018)

Sen. J. Stuart Adams, Cultivating Common Ground: Lessons from Utah for Living with Our Differences, in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson eds. 2018)   

Gov. Michael Leavitt, Shared Spaces and Brave Gambles, in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson eds. 2018)

Rabbi David N. Saperstein, Masterpiece Cakeshop: Impact on the Search for Common Ground, in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson eds. 2018)

Robin Fretwell Wilson & Tanner Bean, Why Jack Phillips Still Cannot Make Wedding cakes: Deciding Competing Claims Under Old Laws, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs (2018)

Robin Fretwell Wilson, Introduction, in The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law (Robin Fretwell Wilson ed., Cambridge Univ. Press. 2018)

Robin Fretwell Wilson & Shaakirrah Sanders, By Faith Alone: When Religious Beliefs and Child Welfare Collide, in The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law (Robin Fretwell Wilson ed., Cambridge Univ. Press. 2018)

Robin Fretwell Wilson, Divorcing Marriage and the State Post-Obergefell, in The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law (Robin Fretwell Wilson ed., Cambridge Univ. Press. 2018)

Sen. J. Stuart Adams, Taking Colliding Trains Off a Collision Path: Lessons from the Utah Compromise for Civil Society, in The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law (Robin Fretwell Wilson ed., Cambridge Univ. Press. 2018 

Robin Fretwell Wilson, ‘Getting the Government Out of Marriage’ Post Obergefell: The Ill-Considered Consequences of Transforming the State’s Relationship to Marriage, 41 Univ. Ill. L. Rev. 1445 (2017)

Robin Fretwell Wilson, The Nonsense About Bathrooms: How Purported Concerns Over Safety Block LGBT Nondiscrimination Laws and Obscure Real Religious Liberty Concerns, 20 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 1373 (2017)

Robin Fretwell Wilson, Squaring Faith and Sexuality: Religious Institutions and the Unique Challenge of Sports, 34 L. & Inequality: J. of Theory & Practice 385 (2017)

Thomas C. Berg & Douglas Laycock, Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

Richard A. Epstein, Sean P. Gates, & David A. Shaneyfelt, Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners in Masterpiece Cakeshop

Thomas C. Berg, Masterpiece Cakeshop: A Romer for Religious Objectors?, 2017 Cato Supreme Court Rev. 139 (2017) 

Thomas C. Berg, Partly Acculturated Religious Activity: A Case for Accommodating Religious Nonprofits, 91 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1341 (2016).

Robin Fretwell Wilson, The Politics of Accommodation: The American Experience with Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom, in Religious Freedom and Gay Rights: Emerging Conflicts in North America And Europe (Timothy Samuel Shah, Thomas F. Farr, & Jack Friedman eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2016)

Robin Fretwell Wilson, Bargaining for Religious Accommodations: Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights After Hobby Lobby, in The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty (Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flanders, & Zoë Robinson eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2016)

Douglas Laycock & Steven T. Collis, Generally Applicable Law and the Free Exercise of Religion, 95 Neb. L. Rev. 1 (2016)

Robin Fretwell Wilson, Summary of the Utah Compromise (2015)

Douglas Laycock, Religious Liberty and the Culture Wars, 2014 Univ. Ill. L. Rev. 839 (2014).

Thomas C. Berg, Religious Accommodation in the Welfare State, 38 Harvard J. L. & Gender 103 (2014).

Robin Fretwell Wilson, When Governments Insulate Dissenters from Social Change: What Hobby Lobby and Abortion Conscience Clauses Teach About Specific Exemptions, 48 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 703 (2014)

Robin Fretwell Wilson, Marriage of Necessity: Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty Protections, 64 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1161 (2014)

Douglas Laycock & Thomas C. Berg, Protecting Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty, 99 Va. L. Rev. Online 1 (2013) 

Thomas C. Berg, Progressive Arguments for Religious Organizational Freedom: Reflections on the HHS Mandate, 21 J. Contemp. L. Issues 279 (2013).

Thomas C. Berg, & Douglas Laycock, The Mistakes in Locke v. Davey and the Future of State Payments for Services Provided by Religious Institutions, 40 Tulsa L. Rev. 227 (2013).

Thomas C. Berg, Secular Purpose, Accommodations, and Why Religion Is Special (Enough), 80 U. Chicago L. Rev. Dialogue 24 (2013).

Thomas C. Berg, What Same-Sex-Marriage and Religious-Liberty Claims Have in Common, 5 Nw. J. L. & Soc. Pol'y. 206 (2010).

Thomas C. Berg, Religious Organizational Freedom and Conditions on Governmental Benefits, Georgetown J. L. & Pub Pol’y (2009).

Douglas Laycock, Why the Supreme Court Changed Its Mind About Government Aid to Religious Institutions: It's a Lot More than Just Republican Appointments, 2008 BYU L. Rev. 275 (2008).

Thomas C. Berg, Religious Choice and Exclusions of Religion, PENNumbra (2008). 

Thomas C. Berg, Can Religious Liberty Be Protected as Equality?, 85 Tex. L. Rev. 5 (2007). 

Thomas C. Berg, The Permissible Scope of Limitations on the Freedom of Religion and Belief in the United States, 19 Emory J. Int’l L. 1277 (2005).

Thomas C. Berg, Vouchers and Religious Schools: The New Constitutional Questions, 72 Univ. Cincinnati L. Rev. (2003).