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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Pre-Reformation Roman Canon Law in Post-Reformation English Ecclesiastical Law3
The 2022 Revision of The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion2
Re St Michael, Horton1
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: 97811085902801
JR87, Application for Judicial Review1
Political Theology and Law Geminello Preterossi Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2023, Law and Politics: Continental Perspectives, 202 pp (hardback £96), ISBN: 97811385498211
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
Personnel Files, Confidentiality and the Right to Privacy1
An exceptional burial in a closed churchyard: St Mary and St Eanswythe, Folkestone1
The Definition of an Archdeacon: Legal, Pastoral or Neither?1
Response to ‘“Legalists and Moralists” in the Historic Portrayal of the Constitution of the Church of England’1
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
Governing Body of the Church in Wales1
Re Bingham Cemetery (No 2)1
Re St Mary the Virgin, Stebbing1
Re St Mary the Virgin, Weston Turville0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Stevington0
The enduring impact of the Council of Nicaea0
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
Re St Mary the Virgin, Dedham0
Re St Michael and All Angels, Pelsall0
Ethics, Politics and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing Melissa Moschella Notre Dame University Press, 2025, xiii + 216 pp (hardback $40) ISBN: 978-0-268-20926-10
The canon law of the Old Catholic Churches (Utrecht Union)0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland0
Re St Leonard, Hythe0
General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church0
The Office of Notary Public and the Church of England: a legal perspective – ancient and modern0
Juridical ecumenism and the Canons of Nicaea: comparing the Nicene Canons (325) and the Statement of Principles of Christian Law (2016)0
Re Bingham Cemetery0
Re St Mary, East Molesey0
Re St Bartholomew, Orford0
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
Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Canon Law Justin M Anderson and Atria A Larson (eds) The Catholic University Press, Washington DC, 2025, xxxiii + 384 pp (hardback $85) ISBN: 978-0-813-23934-70
The Canons of Nicaea and the canon law of the Church of England0
Re St Nicholas, Leicester0
Re St John the Baptist, Ulpha0
Anderlecht Christian Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses & Others v Belgium0
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
What Does the Future Hold for Freedom of Religion and Belief?0
Re Sizer0
ELJ volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
ELJ volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Reclaiming the Blessings of Religious Liberty: Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment0
Conciliarity and dispersed authority from Nicaea to the Archbishops’ Council0
Unrepealed: why the proviso to Canon 113 of 1603 remains in force0
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 St Mary, Shotesham0
Re an application to inter cremated remains0
The Monarch, the common witness of the Church, and the godly constitution of the State0
October 2025 to January 20260
The Case of the Rustat Memorial – Does Duffield Pose all the Right Questions?0
Re St Nicholas, Radford0
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
Discovering Anglicanism – ecclesiology at Lambeth Conferences 1867–19980
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
Reconciling Theology Paul Avis SCM Press, London, 2022, xiv+260 pp (paperback £30), ISBN: 978-0-334-06138-00
Metropolitan Pavlos Menevissoglou (1935–2022)0
ELJ volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Re All Saints, Scotby0
Re St Mary, Boxford0
ELJ volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Paganism Persisting: A History of European Paganism Since Antiquity Robin Douglas and Francis Young University of Exeter Press, 2024, 220 pp (hardback £90) ISBN: 978-1-804-13123-70
Re St Andrew, Horbling0
Devises of advowsons to trustees0
Shared Burial Grounds0
The law of liturgy: a theological context0
Re Exhumation for forensic post-mortem examination0
The King and the Law of the Church of England0
Re St Mary, Ingleton0
Synodally led and episcopally governed? Synodality at the universal level in the Roman Catholic Church0
ELJ volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
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, Langtoft0
Synodality at the universal level in the Anglican Communion0
Reflections on a theory of law in the addresses of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I0
The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law John WitteJr and Rafael Domingo (editors) Oxford University Press, 2024, 899 pp (hardback £132.50), ISBN: 97801976067590
Reflections on the Workings of General Synod – CORRIGENDUM0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Morpeth0
Re A redundant church bell0
Re St George, Newcastle0
Re St John the Baptist, Tisbury0
Faith in school: balancing no establishment and free exercise of religion guarantees in American education0
Editorial0
Re St Mary & All Saints, Willingham0
ELJ volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Re St Mary, Thame0
Re St Michael, Twerton-on-Avon0
Re St Michael le Belfrey, York0
General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church0
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
Anti-semitism and higher education: concerns and challenges0
Editorial0
Re St Michael and All Angels, Berwick0
Revisiting the Rustat case0
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
Re Brookwood Cemetery0
Acting impartially, circumventing bias, and avoiding conflicts of interests0
General Synod of the Church of England0
Breathing with two lungs – the metaphor revisited, refreshed, renewed0
Re St James, Southbroom0
Synodal structures in the Roman Catholic diocese0
Response to ‘Safeguarding and the law’0
The relevance of the Nicene canons for clergy discipline: past, present and future0
Religion in Schools: Learning Lessons from Wales Russell Sandberg Anthem Press, London, 2022, 134 pp (paperback £19.99), IBSN 978-1-83998-425-90
ELJ volume 28 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
What did the Nicene Creed say?0
June to September 20250
Gretna Green and the law of marriage: irregular unions in the Anglo-Scottish legal tradition (18th–20th century)0
The twenty-fourth Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon lawyers: canon law and confession0
Canon law, ecumenism, and synodality0
General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 20250
Bishop Roger Herft: The Determination of the Episcopal Standards Board of the Anglican Church of Australia0
ELJ volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Archbishop of Uganda v Joyce and Others0
October 2023 to January 20240
Re St Michael and All Angels, Berwick0
Re All Saints, Elston0
ELJ volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
ELJ volume 26 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Response to ‘Reflections on the Workings of General Synod’0
Ecclesiastical Law Society Conference: ‘Accidents of Ecclesiastical Governance – Past, Present and Future?’0
February to May 20240
Pious Causes: The Boundaries between Charity Law and Ecclesiastical Law0
October 2024 to January 20250
Re Holy Trinity and St Jude, Halifax0
Newman, Canon Law, and Development: Quarrying Granite Rocks with Razors David P Long CUA Press, 2025, 340 pp (hardback $85) ISBN: 978-08132389200
ELJ volume 27 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
General Synod of the Church of Ireland0
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
Move over Lyndwood: the York Provinciale0
Ralph Lever (c. 1530–1585)0
KS (Thailand) v Secretary of State for the Home Department0
Re Holy Rood, Edwalton0
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
Re St Mary, Stalbridge [2024] ECC Sal 1 & 20
R (Bowen) v Kent County Council0
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
All Mouth and No Trousers? Observations Arising from the Decision on Jurisdiction in Re Evans0
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
ELJ volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
A Limited Episcopacy? Canon Law and the Ministry of the ‘Episcopal Assistant’ in the Anglican Communion0
Re St Leonard, Hythe0
Re St Christopher, Ellistown0
Re St Nicholas, Tackley0
Synodality at the local level – diocesan synods in Anglican canon law0
Re St Leonard, Hythe0
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
McCalla v Lichfield Diocesan Board of Finance0
Re All Saints, Spring Park Parochial Church Council v Church Commissioners0
Re Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry0
An inquiry into the state of clerical discipline in the Anglican Church of Canada0
Christianity and Constitutionalism Edited by Nicholas Aroney and Ian Leigh Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022, 494 pp (paperback £29.99), ISBN: 97801975872630
Re Holy Trinity, Clapham0
ELJ volume 26 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Re St Peter, Terwick0
Re All Saints, Rainford0
The Coronation Oath0
Anti-Catholic/Jewish discrimination, appointing Church of England bishops, and the vexed case of Boris Johnson0
ELJ volume 28 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Re St Mary, Adderbury [2024] ECC Oxf 40
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
Editorial0
Church Law History Consortium0
The Language of Canon Law Judith Hahn Oxford University Press, New York, 2023, 248 pp (hardback £64), ISBN: 97801976742460
General Synod of the Church of England0
Voidable marriages0
Free election in the age of Erastianism: the case of R v The President and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral0
The Ecclesiastical Law Society's 35th Annual Conference: Sacred Space0
Re St Michael, Wandsworth Common0
Re St Paul, Caton-with-Littledale0
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
Reflections on the Workings of General Synod0
Re St George, Unsworth0
General Synod of the Church of Ireland0
Re St Anne, Ings0
Rethinking Law and Religion Russell Sandberg Edward Elgar, UK, 2024, 260 pp (hardback £100), ISBN: 978-1-80088-618-60
The Chancery Court of York: a forgotten jurisdiction ‘particularly circumstanced’?0
ELJ volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Episcopacy, law and government0
Gerald of Wales (c. 1146–1223): A Canonist Rediscovered0
Re St Martin, Brampton0
Sheila Cameron CBE KC (1934–2025)0
Re St Nicholas, Leicester0
Re the Church of the Wisdom of God, Lower Kingswood0
Synodality: the regional level in the Anglican Communion0
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
Aston Cantlow v Wallbank: a twenty-year retrospective0
Re St Mary, Uggeshall0
Re All Saints, Pontefract0
General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada0
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
June–September 20220
Governing Body of the Church in Wales0
‘Legalists and Moralists’ in the Historic Portrayal of the Constitution of the Church of England0
Re Streatham Cemetery0
Power and its exercise in the Vatican City State0
October 2022 to January 20230
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association v Scottish Event Campus Ltd0
Re All Saints, Isley Walton0
The Twenty-Third Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers: Canon Law and Synodality0
The future of liturgy and law0
Synodal structures in the Roman Catholic parish0
General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church0
Re St Peter, Egmond0
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
February to May 20250
From birth certificate to altar: legal implications of gender change for Anglican marriage in Australia0
The Peculiar Case of a Royal Peculiar: A Problem of Faculty at the Tower of London0
Liturgy, law and the Diocesan Advisory Committee0
Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers0
Re St Saviour, Nottingham0
ELJ volume 26 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
February to May 20230
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
Kingdom Buildings, Your Church and Churchyard as Assets for Mission Kenneth Padley Canterbury Press, Canterbury, 2025, xvii + 172 pp (paperback £20) ISBN: 978-1-78622-623-50
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
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
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
Re St Michael the Archangel, Warfield0
Re St Lawrence, Eyam0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland0
Re Rev Julian Blakely0
Strasbourg, Russia and the Right to Same-Sex Marriage0
The canons of Nicaea as part of the living canonical tradition of the Orthodox Church0
Canon law and synodality: the nature of the parish in the Anglican Communion0
Re St Anselm's Church, Kennington Cross0
All Roads Lead to New Rome: The Canonical Origins and Status of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Ukraine0
Re the exhumation of a baby0
Re St James, Piccadilly0
Re St James, Sutton Cheney0
Re Lambeth Cemetery0
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
Re Chapel of King's College of Our Lady and St Nicholas, Cambridge0
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
Re St Bartholomew, Lower Sapey [2024] ECC Wor 30
Le pouvoir dans l’Église, on en parle? 10 questions d’histoire et d’actualité Martin Pinet Cerf, Paris, 2025, 226 pp (paperback €22)ISBN: 978-2-204-15649-30
Re St Michael and All Angels, Woolmer Green0
Re St Nicholas, Kingsey0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland0
ELJ volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Safeguarding and the law0
Re St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall0
ELJ volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Particular councils and episcopal conferences in the Roman Catholic Church: synodality between the Universal Church and the diocese0
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
Governing Body of the Church in Wales0
The Practice and Politics of Establishment0
Catholic synodality: episcopacy, clergy, laity0
‘Juristecture’ and the regulation of normative space0
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