Professor Marci Hamilton is a leading church/state expert who specializes on the issue of whether religious practices that violate the law should be accommodated. Professor Hamilton is a visiting professor at Princeton University this year and holds the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She is the author of God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law (Cambridge 2005, 2007) and the forthcoming Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children (Cambridge 2008).

Hamilton represents numerous survivors of childhood sexual abuse, especially in circumstances where the abuse was made possible by religious organizations. Read her blog articles here.

Blog Entries by Marci Hamilton

A Modest Proposal for the 21st Century

Posted June 10, 2008 | 01:34 PM (EST)


There is an important lesson we should learn from Texas's recent dealings with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS) in Eldorado, Texas.

After Child Protective Services saw at least five girls who had been statutorily raped, and many others likely raped while underage, as well as...

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Prosecuting Polygamy in El Dorado

Posted April 8, 2008 | 03:54 PM (EST)


There is nothing so dangerous for a child as an insular, patriarchical religious organization, and the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, whose compound in El Dorado, Texas, is now under control of the Texas authorities, is one of the scariest examples. It took the extraordinary bravery of a 16-year-old girl to...

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