Ecclesiastical Law Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecclesiastical Law Journal is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Legal Treatment of Religious Dissent in Western Europe: A Comparative View3
Pre-Reformation Roman Canon Law in Post-Reformation English Ecclesiastical Law2
Unity in Christ: Bishops, Synodality, and Communion Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP with a foreword by Cardinal Mario Grech, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, DC, 2023, xi + 169 pp (p1
Response to ‘“Legalists and Moralists” in the Historic Portrayal of the Constitution of the Church of England’1
The Definition of an Archdeacon: Legal, Pastoral or Neither?1
The Church and Employment Law: A Comparative Analysis of the Legal Status of Clergy and Religious Workers John Duddington Routledge, 2023, 299 pp (hardback £125), ISBN: 978-0-367-55317-31
Political Theology and Law Geminello Preterossi Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2023, Law and Politics: Continental Perspectives, 202 pp (hardback £96), ISBN: 97811385498211
Re Scotforth Cemetery, Lancaster1
The 2022 Revision of The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion1
Re St Michael, Horton1
Re St Mary the Virgin, Stebbing1
Re St Michael, Wandsworth Common0
Re St Leonard, Hythe0
The Chancery Court of York: a forgotten jurisdiction ‘particularly circumstanced’?0
The Practice and Politics of Establishment0
Beyond Establishment: Resetting Church–State Relations in England Jonathan Chaplin SCM Press, London, 2022, 220 pp (paperback £25), ISBN: 978-0-334-06173-10
Governing Body of the Church in Wales0
Re Holy Trinity, Clapham0
Could the State do Without Marriage Law?0
ELJ volume 24 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Religion and Marriage Law: The Need for Reform Russell Sandberg University of Bristol Press, Bristol, 2021, vii + 156 pp (hardback £40), ISBN: 978-1-5292-1280-80
To Proclaim Afresh: Declaration and Oaths for Church of England MinistersThe Faith and Order Commission of the Church of England Church House Publishing, London, 2022, ix + 35 pp (paperback0
Theology and the Enlightenment: A Critical Enquiry into Enlightenment Theology and its Reception Paul Avis T & T Clark, London, 2023, xi + 402 pp (paperback £28.99), ISBN: 97805677056480
Re St James, Piccadilly0
Metropolitan Pavlos Menevissoglou (1935–2022)0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland0
Re Holy Rood, Edwalton0
The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law Edited by Anders Winroth and John C Wei Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2022, xx + 617 pp (hardback £140), ISBN 978-1-107-02504-20
Unrepealed: why the proviso to Canon 113 of 1603 remains in force0
Re St Bartholomew, Orford0
Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers0
Institut de Taoïsme Fung Loy Kok c Ville de Montréal0
Editorial0
The Visitation of Hereford Diocese in 1397 Edited by Ian Forrest and Christopher Whittick Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk, 2023, xli + 271pp (paperback £24.99), ISBN: 978-0-907239-87-10
Canon law, ecumenism, and synodality0
ELJ volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
October 2023 to January 20240
Re St Anne, Ings0
The King and the Law of the Church of England0
Making Your Church Sustainable: A Practical Guide to Getting to Net Zero Nigel Walter Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2024, 126 pp (paperback £14.99) ISBN 978-1-78622-497-20
ELJ volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
ELJ volume 26 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Re St James, Sutton Cheney0
Re an application to inter cremated remains0
Women and the Anglican Church Congress 1861–1938: Space, Place and Agency Sue Anderson-Faithful and Catherine Holloway Bloomsbury, London, 2023, xi + 259 pp (hardback £85), ISBN: 97813503241830
Reconciling Theology Paul Avis SCM Press, London, 2022, xiv+260 pp (paperback £30), ISBN: 978-0-334-06138-00
All Mouth and No Trousers? Observations Arising from the Decision on Jurisdiction in Re Evans0
Synodality: the regional level in the Anglican Communion0
Synodality at the local level – diocesan synods in Anglican canon law0
October 2021 to January 20220
Re St Michael and All Angels, Woolmer Green0
Re St Mary, Stalbridge [2024] ECC Sal 1 & 20
Christianity and Criminal Law Edited by Mark Hill QC, Norman Doe, R H Helmholz and John Witte Jr Routledge, Oxford, 2020, xxiii + 382 pp (hardback £120), ISBN: 978-0-3678-5825-40
The Language of Canon Law Judith Hahn Oxford University Press, New York, 2023, 248 pp (hardback £64), ISBN: 97801976742460
Re St James, Southbroom0
The Case of the Rustat Memorial – Does Duffield Pose all the Right Questions?0
Re All Saints, Isley Walton0
ELJ volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Re Rev Julian Blakely0
Synodality at the universal level in the Anglican Communion0
DP (a pseudonym) v Bird0
Re Chapel of King's College of Our Lady and St Nicholas, Cambridge0
Personnel Files, Confidentiality and the Right to Privacy0
Re Exhumation for forensic post-mortem examination0
Re St Peter, Egmond0
The Anglican Eucharist in Australia: The History, Theology and Liturgy of the Eucharist in the Anglican Church of Australia Brian Douglas Brill, Leiden, 2022, Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History 80
The Twenty-Third Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers: Canon Law and Synodality0
Intra-Church Property Disputes and the Failure of Neutral Principles: A Call for a Return to the Deference Standard0
Re St Michael le Belfrey, York0
Re St Mary, Uggeshall0
Rethinking Law and Religion Russell Sandberg Edward Elgar, UK, 2024, 260 pp (hardback £100), ISBN: 978-1-80088-618-60
Lee v United Kingdom0
JR87, Application for Judicial Review0
Ecclesiastical Law Society Conference: ‘Accidents of Ecclesiastical Governance – Past, Present and Future?’0
Anglican Confirmation 1820–1945: From ‘Renewing the Baptismal Covenant’ to ‘The Sacramental Principle’ Phillip Tovey Routledge, 2024, 206 pp (hardback £135), ISBN: 978-1-032-66097-40
Re St Mary & All Saints, Willingham0
Law at the Backbone: The Christian Legal Ecumenism of Norman Doe0
ELJ volume 26 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Re St Michael, Twerton-on-Avon0
Response to ‘Safeguarding and the law’0
Re St Andrew, Horbling0
February to May 20230
Voidable marriages0
Shared Burial Grounds0
Aston Cantlow v Wallbank: a twenty-year retrospective0
ELJ volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Free election in the age of Erastianism: the case of R v The President and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral0
What Does the Future Hold for Freedom of Religion and Belief?0
Re St Mary, Thame0
The Development of the Canons: A Historical Study and Summary of the Church of England's Canons 1969 to 2020 Edited by Gerald Bray Latimer Publications, London, 2022, 214 pp (paperback £9.50), ISBN: 90
‘Seven whole days’: The Obligation of the Clergy of the Church of England to ‘say daily the Morning and Evening Prayer’0
ELJ volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
A Handbook for Churchwardens and Parochial Church Councillors: New Revised Edition Timothy Briden and Kenneth MacMorran Bloomsbury Continuum, London, 2023, 208 pp (paperback £14.99), ISBN: 978-13994090
Bishop Roger Herft: The Determination of the Episcopal Standards Board of the Anglican Church of Australia0
General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church0
Re St Michael and All Angels, Berwick0
Re St Thomas a Becket, Salisbury0
Religious Confession and Evidential Privilege in the 21st Century Edited by Mark Hill QC and Keith Thompson Connor Court Publishing, Cleveland, Australia, 2021, 320 pp (paperback A$40), ISBN: 978-1-920
Pious Causes: The Boundaries between Charity Law and Ecclesiastical Law0
Re St Bartholomew, Leigh0
Re St Michael, Langtoft0
October 2024 to January 20250
The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea Young Richard Kim (ed.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021, 424 pp (paperback £30.99), ISBN: 978-1-108-44811-60
The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible Bruce Wells (ed) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024, 386 pp (paperback £22.99) ISBN: 978-1-108-72566-80
Re Holy Trinity and St Jude, Halifax0
Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy: The Legacy of the Great Jurists Edited by Orazio Condorelli and Rafael Domingo Routledge, London and New York, 2021, xiii + 468 pp (hardback £120), ISBN: 978-0
National Prayers: Special Worship Since the Reformation, Volume 3: Worship for National and Royal Occasions in the United Kingdom, 1871–2016 Philip Williamson, Stephen Taylor, Alasdair Raffe and Natal0
Archbishop of Uganda v Joyce and Others0
British Islam and English Law: A Classical Pluralist Perspective Patrick S Nash, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 308 pp (hardback £95), ISBN: 978-1-108-71360-30
Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties John Witte Jr Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019, xxii + 434 pp (paperback £28), ISBN: 978-1-316-63612-10
Re St Mary, East Molesey0
Re A redundant church bell0
Governing Body of the Church in Wales0
Power and its exercise in the Vatican City State0
Revisiting the Rustat case0
Re All Saints, Pontefract0
Anderlecht Christian Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses & Others v Belgium0
Editorial0
Christianity and Global Law Edited by Rafael Domingo and John Witte Jr Routledge, Oxford, 2020, xiii + 429 pp (hardback £104), ISBN: 978-0-367-85816-20
Re St Saviour, Nottingham0
Strasbourg, Russia and the Right to Same-Sex Marriage0
ELJ volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
A Still More Excellent Way: Authority and Polity in the Anglican Communion Alexander Ross SCM Press, London, 2020, 256 pp (hardback £65), ISBN: 978-0-334-05932-50
ELJ volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
ELJ volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Islam, Religious Liberty and Constitutionalism in Europe Mark HillKC and Lina Papadopoulou (eds) Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2024, 281 pp (hardback £95) ISBN: 978-1-5099-6695-00
ELJ volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
ELJ volume 26 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Re St Michael and All Angels, Berwick0
June–September 20210
Synodally led and episcopally governed? Synodality at the universal level in the Roman Catholic Church0
Re All Saints, Calverton0
Ecclesiastical Law, Clergy and Laity: A History of Legal Discipline and the Anglican Church Neil Patterson Routledge, London and New York, 2020, 194 pp (paperback £30), ISBN: 978-0-3675-8625-60
Sources of English Legal History: Public Law to 1750 Sir John Baker Oxford University Press, 2024, lii + 788 pp (hardback £150) ISBN: 978-0-19-954679-40
The law of liturgy: a theological context0
Re St Mary, Ingleton0
ELJ volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Re Streatham Cemetery0
‘Legalists and Moralists’ in the Historic Portrayal of the Constitution of the Church of England0
When a doctrine is not a doctrine: understating the intersection of civil and canon law and the ‘doctrine’ of marriage in the Anglican Church of Australia0
Church Law History Consortium0
ELJ volume 27 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Re St Nicholas, Kingsey0
Editorial0
The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Trent Edited by Nelson H. Minnich Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023, xv + 351 pp (hardback £89.99), ISBN: 97811085902800
Liturgy, law and the Diocesan Advisory Committee0
February to May 20240
Re St Nicholas, Leicester0
Priest of the Church or Priest of a Church? The Ecclesiology of Ordained Local Ministry Noel Cox Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, Lanham, MD, 2021, xv + 155 pp (hardback £73), ISBN: 978-1-9787-1185-0
Re St Paul, Covent Garden0
The Ecclesiastical Law Society's 35th Annual Conference: Sacred Space0
ELJ volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Re Brookwood Cemetery0
Re St Paul, North Shore, Blackpool0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Ashwell0
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church of Canada St Mary Cathedral v Aga0
Synodal structures in the Roman Catholic parish0
Faith, Freedom and Family: An Introduction to the Work of John Witte Jr0
Reclaiming the Blessings of Religious Liberty: Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment0
Re the exhumation of a baby0
Reflections on a theory of law in the addresses of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I0
ELJ volume 26 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Safeguarding and the law0
General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada0
The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law John WitteJr and Rafael Domingo (editors) Oxford University Press, 2024, 899 pp (hardback £132.50), ISBN: 97801976067590
Re All Saints, Scotby0
Anti-Catholic/Jewish discrimination, appointing Church of England bishops, and the vexed case of Boris Johnson0
General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church0
Episcopacy, law and government0
Re St Mary, Shotesham0
Re St Peter, Powick0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Weston Turville0
Re St Bartholomew, Lower Sapey [2024] ECC Wor 30
All Roads Lead to New Rome: The Canonical Origins and Status of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Ukraine0
Synodal structures in the Roman Catholic diocese0
General Synod of the Church of Ireland0
Re St Nicholas, Tackley0
Re St George, Newcastle0
June–September 20220
Re All Saints, Friskney0
Autocéphalies. L'exercice de l'indépendance dans les Églises slaves orientales (IXe–XXIe siècle) Marie-Hélène Blanchet, Frédéric Gabriel and Laurent Tatarenko (eds) École françai0
General Synod of the Church of England0
Response to ‘Reflections on the Workings of General Synod’0
‘And Who Is My Parishioner?’ Residency, Human Rights and the Right to Burial in the Parish Churchyard0
Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500–1700 K. J. Kesselring and Tim Stretton Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022, 195 pp (hardback £70), ISBN: 97801928499530
Re Bingham Cemetery0
Breathing with two lungs – the metaphor revisited, refreshed, renewed0
Re St Giles, Exhall0
The Legal Legacy of the Reformation – Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law John Duddington (ed) Routledge, London, 2025, 302 pp (hardback £108) ISBN: 978-0-367-20908-70
Re St Michael and All Angels, Pelsall0
Governing Body of the Church in Wales0
ELJ volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Ralph Lever (c. 1530–1585)0
The Legal History of the Church of England: From the Reformation to the Present Norman Doe and Stephen Coleman (eds) Hart/Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2024, xii + 268 pp (hardback £90), ISBN: 978-1-0
Re St Anselm's Church, Kennington Cross0
Re St Paul, Caton-with-Littledale0
The Peculiar Case of a Royal Peculiar: A Problem of Faculty at the Tower of London0
Re St John the Baptist, Tisbury0
Gerald of Wales (c. 1146–1223): A Canonist Rediscovered0
Re St Mary, Boxford0
Re All Saints, Spring Park Parochial Church Council v Church Commissioners0
Re St Leonard, Hythe0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland0
Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers0
The Coronation Oath0
Re St Lawrence, Eyam0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Morpeth0
Re All Saints, Elston0
Re All Saints, Rainford0
General Synod of the Church of Ireland0
A Limited Episcopacy? Canon Law and the Ministry of the ‘Episcopal Assistant’ in the Anglican Communion0
Reflections on the Workings of General Synod – CORRIGENDUM0
Re St Leonard, Hythe0
Canon law and synodality: the nature of the parish in the Anglican Communion0
Re the Church of the Wisdom of God, Lower Kingswood0
Re St Christopher, Ellistown0
A History of Pew Renting in the Church of England J C Bennett Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, 237 pp (hardback £120), ISBN: 978-3-031-54426-20
‘Juristecture’ and the regulation of normative space0
Re Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry0
Christianity and Constitutionalism Edited by Nicholas Aroney and Ian Leigh Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022, 494 pp (paperback £29.99), ISBN: 97801975872630
Re St George, Unsworth0
Re St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall0
50 Years of Safeguarding – 950 Years of Clergy Discipline: Where do we go from here?0
Editorial0
Law and Religion in Ireland, 1700–1970Edited by Kevin Costello and Niamh Howlin Palgrave MacMillan, London, 2021, xiii + 384 + index (eBook £87.50), ISBN: 978-3-030-74373-40
Reflections on the Workings of General Synod0
Governing Body of the Church in Wales0
February to May 20250
General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church0
Anti-semitism and higher education: concerns and challenges0
Re Unnamed Burial Ground0
Re St James, Islington0
Catholic synodality: episcopacy, clergy, laity0
The future of liturgy and law0
Peacemaking and the Canon Law of the Catholic Church Charles J Reid Brill, 2023, 247pp (paperback EUR 70.00), ISBN: 978-90-04-68144-60
Re St John, Clayton0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland0
An exceptional burial in a closed churchyard: St Mary and St Eanswythe, Folkestone0
Particular councils and episcopal conferences in the Roman Catholic Church: synodality between the Universal Church and the diocese0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Dedham0
KS (Thailand) v Secretary of State for the Home Department0
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association v Scottish Event Campus Ltd0
McCalla v Lichfield Diocesan Board of Finance0
Re St Nicholas, Leicester0
Re St Mary, Adderbury [2024] ECC Oxf 40
October 2022 to January 20230
R (Bowen) v Kent County Council0
Re St John the Baptist, Bishop Monkton0
Devises of advowsons to trustees0
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