Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

Millions of Americans have changed their religion over the course of their lifetimes, switching from one religion to another, leaving religion altogether, or choosing to identify with a religion after ...

All Jehovah’s Witnesses lay claim to draft exemption on the ground that they are ministers. Last week the U.S. Supreme court backed up one of them in a 6-to-3 decision. What applied to George Lewis ...