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" If the Court is signaling that Mahmoud extends to vaccine mandates, it has quietly unsettled one of the most enduring premises of its free exercise jurisprudence."
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My latest in the @washingtonpost.com on vaccines and religious liberty (Gift article) wapo.st/482ywCQ
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Jotwell: Religious Equality Run Amuck - Equality buff.ly/QfrBvwv
New essay in Harvard Law Review Forum on vaccines, religious liberty, and the Supreme Court’s habit of saying a lot by saying very little: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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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...
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…
In <em>Miller v. McDonald</em>, the Supreme Court vacated a decision upholding a vaccine mandate for lacking religious exemptions, remanding for reconsideration
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...
The Supreme Court has allowed lower courts to turn religious liberty into license on vaccinations. But Judge Wilkinson holds the line in CA4 — tells the Court it’s time to get serious. @zalmanr.bsky.social with the run down.
Rothschild on Vaccines and Religious Parental Rights
Zalman Rothschild (Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law) has posted Vaccines and 'Religious Parental Rights' (Harv. L. Rev. F. (forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In Miller v. McDonald, the Supreme Court vacated a…
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My latest in the @washingtonpost.com on vaccines and religious liberty (Gift article) wapo.st/482ywCQ
Constitutional law on vaccines was long settled. Now, the Supreme Court favors religious exemptions.
Zalman Rothschild (Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law) has posted Vaccines and 'Religious Parental Rights' (Harv. L. Rev. F. (forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In Miller v. McDonald, the Supreme Court vacated a decision upholding a vaccine mandate for lacking religious exemptions, remanding for reconsideration in light of Mahmoud v. Taylor—a case about parental opt-outs from public school curricula.
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Constitutional law on vaccines was long settled. Now, the Supreme Court favors religious exemptions.