James M. Donovan

Publications

• Zero Tolerance or Strong Cultural Diversity: The Hard Case of Female Genital Surgery
  40 EMORY INT'L L. REV. 213 (2026) · Emory International Law Review · 2026
• Grounding Suicide Terrorism in Death Anxiety and Consumer Capitalism
  44 LOY. L. A. INT'L & COMP. L. REV. (2021) · Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review · 2021
• Limits of the Rule of Law: Negotiating Afghan "Traditional" Law in the International Civil Trials in the Czech Republic
  54 VAND. J. TRANSNAT'L L. 1123 (2021) · Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law · 2021
• Academic Law Libraries and Scholarship: Communication, Publishing, and Ranking
  49 J. L. & EDUC. (2020) · The Journal of Law and Education · 2020

• Half-Baked: The Demand by For-Profit Businesses for Religious Exemptions from Selling to Same-Sex Couples
  49 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 39 (2016) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 2016
• Law, Legitimacy, and the Maligned Adverb
  33 MISS. COLL. L. REV. (2015) · Mississippi College Law Review · 2015

• Same-Sex Union Announcements: Whether Newspapers Must Publish Them, and Why We Should Care
  68 BROOK. L. REV. 721 (2003) · Brooklyn Law Review · 2003
• Baby Steps or One Fell Swoop?: The Incremental Extension of Rights is Not a Defensible Strategy
  38 CAL. W. L. REV. (2001) · California Western Law Review · 2001

• DOMA: An Unconstitutional Establishment of Fundamentalist Christianity
  4 MICH. J. GENDER & L. 335 (1997) · Michigan Journal of Gender & Law · 1997
• Restoring Free Exercise Protections by Limiting Them: Preventing a Repeat of Smith
  17 N. ILL. U. L. REV. 1 (1996) · Northern Illinois University Law Review · 1996
• God Is as God Does: Law, Anthropology, and the Definition of "Religion"
  6 SETON HALL CONST. L.J. (1995) · Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal · 1995