March 8, 2011

“Regulating Institutions:  The Downtown Mosque”

Readings

Suggested by Robert Ellickson:

• The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc, et seq. (enacted 2000)
• Islamic Cultural Center of Monticello, Inc. v. Village of Monticello, 2010 WL 4668313 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2010)
• Bram Alden, Comment, Reconsidering RLUIPA: Do Religious Land Use Protections Really Benefit Religious Land Users, 57 UCLA L. Rev. 1779 (2010)
• Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Speech Delivered on Governors Island, August 3, 2010
• Charles Krauthammer, Sacrilege at Ground Zero, Washington Post, Aug. 13, 2010

 Suggested by Patrick Weil:

• Paul W. Kahn, Sacrificial Nation, The Utopian Vol. 6, March 29, 2010
• Sullivan, Yelle and Taussig, eds., “Sacred Property:  Searching for Value in the Rubble of 9/11,” [Mateo Taussig-Rubbo, Chapter 16 forthcoming, After Secular Law, Stanford University Press, 2011]
• Abraham H. Foxman, “The Mosque at Ground Zero,” August 2, 2010,
• Eric H. Yoffie, “Auschwitz and the Mosque Near Ground Zero:  The Problems with this Analogy,” September 28, 2010,