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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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
Response to ‘“Legalists and Moralists” in the Historic Portrayal of the Constitution of the Church of England’1
Personnel Files, Confidentiality and the Right to Privacy1
Re St Mary the Virgin, Stebbing1
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
Re St Michael, Horton1
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
The Definition of an Archdeacon: Legal, Pastoral or Neither?1
Re St Michael le Belfrey, York0
October 2022 to January 20230
Power and its exercise in the Vatican City State0
Re All Saints, Elston0
October 2024 to January 20250
ELJ volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Re an application to inter cremated remains0
ELJ volume 26 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Re Holy Trinity, Pleshey0
Move over Lyndwood: the York Provinciale0
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
Ralph Lever (c. 1530–1585)0
Governing Body of the Church in Wales0
Liturgy, law and the Diocesan Advisory Committee0
Catholic synodality: episcopacy, clergy, laity0
ELJ volume 27 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Metropolitan Pavlos Menevissoglou (1935–2022)0
Re St Nicholas, Radford0
ELJ volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
ELJ volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Back 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 Streatham Cemetery0
The Peculiar Case of a Royal Peculiar: A Problem of Faculty at the Tower of London0
Re Removal of a Commemorative Plaque for Safeguarding Reasons0
ELJ volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Re Bingham Cemetery (No 2)0
ELJ volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Re Exhumation for forensic post-mortem examination0
Re St Mary, Uggeshall0
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
The Language of Canon Law Judith Hahn Oxford University Press, New York, 2023, 248 pp (hardback £64), ISBN: 97801976742460
JR87, Application for Judicial Review0
Re St Bartholomew, Orford0
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
The law of liturgy: a theological context0
Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers0
Re Lambeth Cemetery0
Synodality at the local level – diocesan synods in Anglican canon law0
Episcopacy, law and government0
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 John the Baptist, Tisbury0
Re the exhumation of a baby0
Pindo Mulla v Spain: is religion missing from the equation?0
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
The Practice and Politics of Establishment0
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
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
Strasbourg, Russia and the Right to Same-Sex Marriage0
ELJ volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Law and Religion in a Secular Age Rafael Domingo, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, DC, 2023, xx + 332 pp (hardback £75.00), ISBN: 97808132372990
Re St Mary & All Saints, Willingham0
Breathing with two lungs – the metaphor revisited, refreshed, renewed0
Re Holy Rood, Edwalton0
All Roads Lead to New Rome: The Canonical Origins and Status of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Ukraine0
The Monarch, the common witness of the Church, and the godly constitution of the State0
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
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
Devises of advowsons to trustees0
Re St James, Piccadilly0
The Twenty-Third Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers: Canon Law and Synodality0
Response to ‘Safeguarding and the law’0
Re St Christopher, Ellistown0
Re St Michael and All Angels, Pelsall0
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
The relevance of the Nicene canons for clergy discipline: past, present and future0
Synodality: the regional level in the Anglican Communion0
ELJ volume 26 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Juridical ecumenism and the Canons of Nicaea: comparing the Nicene Canons (325) and the Statement of Principles of Christian Law (2016)0
Re St James, Sutton Cheney0
The Chancery Court of York: a forgotten jurisdiction ‘particularly circumstanced’?0
Re the Church of the Wisdom of God, Lower Kingswood0
Re St Nicholas, Leicester0
ELJ volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Governing Body of the Church in Wales0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland0
Synodal structures in the Roman Catholic parish0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland0
Canon law, ecumenism, and synodality0
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association v Scottish Event Campus Ltd0
ELJ volume 28 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
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
What Does the Future Hold for Freedom of Religion and Belief?0
VI: Francis Mason (1566/7–1621)0
ELJ volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Re All Saints, Isley Walton0
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, Thame0
General Synod of the Church of Ireland0
The Ecclesiastical Law Society's 35th Annual Conference: Sacred Space0
Re St Luke, Chelsea [2024] ECC Lon 30
Re St Peter, Egmond0
February to May 20250
ELJ volume 26 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Editorial0
Re St Mary, Stalbridge [2024] ECC Sal 1 & 20
General Synod of the Church of Ireland0
Beyond Establishment: Resetting Church–State Relations in England Jonathan Chaplin SCM Press, London, 2022, 220 pp (paperback £25), ISBN: 978-0-334-06173-10
Religious rights and freedom of speech0
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
Re St Leonard, Hythe0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Morpeth0
The enduring impact of the Council of Nicaea0
Re Rev Julian Blakely0
Gerald of Wales (c. 1146–1223): A Canonist Rediscovered0
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland0
Re All Saints, Darton0
Re St Nicholas, Tackley0
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
Re St Nicholas, Leicester0
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
Ecclesiastical Law Society Conference: ‘Accidents of Ecclesiastical Governance – Past, Present and Future?’0
ELJ volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Re St Mary, Ingleton0
An exceptional burial in a closed churchyard: St Mary and St Eanswythe, Folkestone0
General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church0
The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law John WitteJr and Rafael Domingo (editors) Oxford University Press, 2024, 899 pp (hardback £132.50), ISBN: 97801976067590
ELJ volume 27 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Re Tuxford War Memorial0
Reflections on the Workings of General Synod – CORRIGENDUM0
Canon law and synodality: the nature of the parish in the Anglican Communion0
Safeguarding and the law0
Re St Lawrence, Eyam0
Re St Michael and All Angels, Woolmer Green0
Synodality at the universal level in the Anglican Communion0
Re St Paul, North Shore, Blackpool0
Re St Michael the Archangel, Warfield0
Re St Michael and All Angels, Berwick0
Re St Michael, Langtoft0
Reclaiming the Blessings of Religious Liberty: Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment0
Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers0
General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Ashwell0
Re St Michael and All Angels, Berwick0
‘Legalists and Moralists’ in the Historic Portrayal of the Constitution of the Church of England0
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
Re Holy Trinity, Clapham0
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
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
Re St Mary the Virgin, Stevington0
The Canons of Nicaea and the canon law of the Church of England0
General Synod of the Church of England0
Sheila Cameron CBE KC (1934–2025)0
Editorial0
Voidable marriages0
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
Anti-semitism and higher education: concerns and challenges0
Re St Leonard, Hythe0
KS (Thailand) v Secretary of State for the Home Department0
ELJ volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada0
R (Bowen) v Kent County Council0
Synodal structures in the Roman Catholic diocese0
Re St Mary, East Molesey0
Re Bingham Cemetery0
Christianity and Constitutionalism Edited by Nicholas Aroney and Ian Leigh Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022, 494 pp (paperback £29.99), ISBN: 97801975872630
Re St Paul, Caton-with-Littledale0
Re St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Weston Turville0
Archbishop of Uganda v Joyce and Others0
Anderlecht Christian Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses & Others v Belgium0
Conciliarity and dispersed authority from Nicaea to the Archbishops’ Council0
Re A redundant church bell0
Re St Leonard, Hythe0
The twenty-fourth Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon lawyers: canon law and confession0
February–May 20220
February to May 20240
Re Holy Trinity and St Jude, Halifax0
The Case of the Rustat Memorial – Does Duffield Pose all the Right Questions?0
June to September 20250
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
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
R (TTT) v Michaela Community Schools Trust0
Re St Saviour, Nottingham0
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
The Coronation Oath0
Reflections on the Workings of General Synod0
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
Re St James, Southbroom0
ELJ volume 26 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
June to September 20230
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
Aston Cantlow v Wallbank: a twenty-year retrospective0
Shared Burial Grounds0
Newman, Canon Law, and Development: Quarrying Granite Rocks with Razors David P Long CUA Press, 2025, 340 pp (hardback $85) ISBN: 978-08132389200
Church Law History Consortium0
General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church0
Discovering Anglicanism – ecclesiology at Lambeth Conferences 1867–19980
The canons of Nicaea as part of the living canonical tradition of the Orthodox Church0
Governing Body of the Church in Wales0
Re St Mary, Shotesham0
Re All Saints, Rainford0
A Limited Episcopacy? Canon Law and the Ministry of the ‘Episcopal Assistant’ in the Anglican Communion0
Re Bognor Regis Town Cemetery0
Re Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry0
Re St Mary, Adderbury [2024] ECC Oxf 40
June–September 20220
Revisiting the Rustat case0
‘Juristecture’ and the regulation of normative space0
VIII: Thomas Sherlock (1678–1761)0
Synodally led and episcopally governed? Synodality at the universal level in the Roman Catholic Church0
Free election in the age of Erastianism: the case of R v The President and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral0
ELJ volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
February to May 20230
The King and the Law of the Church of England0
Editorial0
Re St Peter, Holy Trinity and All Saints, Dorchester0
Re St Nicholas, Kingsey0
Re St George, Unsworth0
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
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
Reconciling Theology Paul Avis SCM Press, London, 2022, xiv+260 pp (paperback £30), ISBN: 978-0-334-06138-00
Re St Michael, Wandsworth Common0
Reflections on a theory of law in the addresses of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I0
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
ELJ volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Re St Michael, Twerton-on-Avon0
Re St Mary, Boxford0
Response to ‘Reflections on the Workings of General Synod’0
Re St Andrew, Horbling0
Re St Anne, Ings0
Re St George, Newcastle0
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
ELJ volume 28 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Re St Bartholomew, Lower Sapey [2024] ECC Wor 30
Pious Causes: The Boundaries between Charity Law and Ecclesiastical Law0
Re All Saints, Spring Park Parochial Church Council v Church Commissioners0
Anti-Catholic/Jewish discrimination, appointing Church of England bishops, and the vexed case of Boris Johnson0
Unrepealed: why the proviso to Canon 113 of 1603 remains in force0
Re Brookwood Cemetery0
Re St Anselm's Church, Kennington Cross0
Re All Saints, Scotby0
Re St Mary the Virgin, Dedham0
Particular councils and episcopal conferences in the Roman Catholic Church: synodality between the Universal Church and the diocese0
Re All Saints, Pontefract0
What did the Nicene Creed say?0
All Mouth and No Trousers? Observations Arising from the Decision on Jurisdiction in Re Evans0
Re Chapel of King's College of Our Lady and St Nicholas, Cambridge0
October 2023 to January 20240
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