In 1952, in a case held to permit early release of students from school in order to attend religious study off campus, the Supreme Court of the United States declared that, “[W]e find no Constitutional requirement which makes it necessary for government to be hostile to religion…
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The United States Supreme Court operates as the highest court in the country, and while its power cannot be questioned, their decisions can be. In the case of Rice v Cayetano, it not only begs the question of who is truly protected by the legal system, but also how does said leg…
In 2018, the United States Supreme Court decided a case called Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The question the Court was weighing is whether an individual’s free exercise of religion or freedom of speech under the First Amendment would be violate…
This dissertation consists of two chapters on the economics of voting. In the first chapter, Courting Legal Change: Dynamics of Voting on the U.S. Supreme Court, I formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic game-theoretic model of decision-making on the U.S. Supreme Court tha…
Civil courts in liberal democracies often hesitate to intervene in disputes concerning the interpretation of norms of religious communities. They hold that such disputes must be resolved within the community itself. In this thesis I argue against such an approach, and hold that,…