The Yale Law Journal

Alice Ristroph

Feature

Disestablishing the Family

Alice Ristroph & Melissa Murray

119 Yale L.J. 1236 (2010). 

This Feature explores what it would mean to disestablish the family. It examines a particular theory of religious disestablishment, one that emphasizes institutional pluralism and the importance of competing sources of authority, and argues that this model of church-stat…