A brief reminder from the list custodian

[Sanford Levinson]

I would encourage Mr. Koven to let us know about "questions of internal
governance that are being debated and resolved purely within the
institution."  It seems to me that the general topic of "law and religion"
is capacious enough to include non-state "law."  Church "law," incidentally,
can be distinguished from theological disputes within a church, which are
dicier in terms of the "jurisdiction" of the list, but it seems to me that
the internal practices of associations, especially if they have in fact been
"codified," have more than enough law-like characteristics to be of general
interest.

Sandy Levinson


>Vance Koven writes:
>
>> I would not presume to "answer" Gene's unanswerable call for relevance,
>> but by way of clarification, I'd like to inquire whether the foregoing
>> mission statement is intended to exclude items more generally falling
>> within the ambit of "law and religion" or "law and religious
>> institutions," gritty matters like internal governance, property,
>> and the like. Since I do act sporadically as general counsel for a church,
>> these subjects do arise and I would like to be certain that when they do
>> this is an appropriate forum for raising them.
>
>    A very good question.  I think everyone would agree that
>questions about internal governance and property disputes *in secular
>courts* are entirely on-topic.  I'm not sure about questions of
>internal governance that are being debated and resolved purely within
>the institution.
>
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