Nathan J. Diament is director of the Institute for Public Affairs, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, in New York.

Paul Finkelman is a professor of law and public policy at Albany Law School in New York. He is an expert in constitutional history and constitutional law, freedom of religion, the law of slavery, civil liberties and the American Civil War, baseball and the law and religious monuments in public spaces. He has written prolifically […]

Nadine Strossen is a professor at New York Law School and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union. She has written extensively about constitutional law and civil liberties and about students’ rights.

Janet R. Jakobsen is associate professor and director of the Center for Research on Women at Barnard College in Columbia University, New York. She co-authored Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (Beacon Press, 2004).

Patricia Salkin is an expert on land use law and is dean of Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in Central Islip, N.Y.

Read a June 26, 2005, New York Times story about legal battles that pit property rights against religious rights.

Read a Jan. 21, 2007, New York Times article about an RLUIPA dispute involving a rabbinical college in Pomona, N.Y.

Read an Oct. 21, 2007, New York Times article on the RLUIPA dispute involving the Orthodox Jewish School in Mamaronick, N.Y.

Read a Sept. 4, 2010, New York Times article on RLUIPA disputes involving mosques in New York, Tennessee, California and elsewhere.