Zalman Rothschild, The Right to Exit Religion, 113 GEORGETOWN L. J. 1459 (2025)Sanford LevinsonLet me confess to two personal reasons for being especially interested in this fascinating essay.  First,...

The ability of states to reject school vaccination exemptions for non-medical reasons could be on the line this year.

In December 2025, without oral argument or a written opinion, the Supreme Court did something it had never done before: It set aside a lower court judgment upholding a vaccine mandate that lacked reli...

In <em>Miller v. McDonald</em>, the Supreme Court vacated a decision upholding a vaccine mandate for lacking religious exemptions, remanding for reconsideration

Constitutional law on vaccines was long settled. Now, the Supreme Court favors religious exemptions.

Zalman Rothschild, The Impossibility of Religious Equality, 125 Colum. L. Rev. 453 (2025).Ezra YoungIn her Supreme Court chambers, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg prominently displayed a passage…

Dr. Zalman Rothschild will deliver the 2026 Fishman Family Endowed Lecture in Jewish Studies, “What Is Antisemitism? A Legal Analysis.”This annual lecture examines antisemitism as a legal question, ex...

A distinguished panel addresses what and how we determine and identify antisemitism in modern times.

Congratulations to Zalman Rothschild, Horn Family Distinguished Research Scholar in Law and Religion and Assistant Professor of Law, on receiving the Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship!...

He was killed doing the work he’d dreamed of.

These days demand humility, which includes acknowledging that we do not have a monopoly on truth.

<p><span>The Supreme Court has recently adopted a new rule of religious equality: Laws unconstitutionally discriminate against religion when they deny religious

What I learned — and didn’t learn — from my Hasidic education