In this episode, Stephanie Barclay, Associate Professor of Law at Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, discusses her article "The Historical Origins of Judicial Religious Exemptions," which will be published in the Notre Dame Law Review. Barclay begins by describing the current state of the law on judicial religious exemptions, as well as the conventional wisdom on the history of such exemptions. She argues that the conventional account misunderstands how antebellum judges understood their role in the interpretation of statutes in relation to constitutional principles. And she suggests that antebellum judges were more inclined to grant religious exemptions than commonly believed. Barclay is on Twitter at @shbarclay.

This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.

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