Russell Sandberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 273918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell Sandberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandberg |
| SIGNATURE | SANDBERG R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4310-9677 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Celebrating Marriage
Journal Article Celebrating Marriage: A New Weddings Law Get access Celebrating Marriage: A New Weddings Law, London: Law Commission for England and Wales, Report no. 408, 2022, pp, Online Report Russell Sandberg Russell Sandberg Cardiff University, Wales, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Volume 37, Issue 1, 2023, ebad031, https…
Religion and Marriage Law
Successive governments have made progressive, but ad hoc reforms to marriage law in Britain. This book provides the first accessible guide to how contemporary marriage law interacts with religion. It reveals the need for the consolidation, modernisation and reform of marriage law and sets out proposals for transformation.
Marital Problems
This article explores the Law Commission's proposals on how and where people can get married in England and Wales as found in their ‘Getting Married’ Consultation Paper. It examines the extent to which the Commission's proposals will deal with or mitigate concerns expressed about two types of non-qualifying wedding ceremonies: ‘unregistered religious marriages’ where the couple undergo a religious ceremony that does not comply with the requiremen…
Cohabitation and Religious Marriage
The Law Commission for England and Wales’ current review of the law on getting married highlights that there are a number of difficulties with the current law. The Marriage Act 1949 has failed to keep up to date with the realities of intimate adult relationships in the twenty-first century. This is underscored by the ever-rising number of cohabiting couples and the worrying continuing prevalence of the common law marriage myth: A large number of …
Unregistered Religious Marriages Are Neither Valid Nor Void
A comment on the decision in Her Majesty's Attorney General v Akhter & Anor [2020] EWCA Civ 122, in which the Court of Appeal confirmed that unregistered religious marriages are to be regarded as ‘non-qualifying ceremonies’ which are outside the scope of marriage legislation
A Systems Theory Re-Construction of Law and Religion
Law and Religion has rapidly developed as an academic sub-discipline in English and Welsh Law Schools in the 21st century amidst a significant amount of legislation, litigation, and public debate about religion. However, there are signs that this sub-discipline is becoming inward looking and stagnating. This article takes a step back and uses Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory to explore how Law and Religion has developed as a sub-discipline.…
Leading Works in Law and Religion
Leading Works in Law and Religion brings together leading and emerging scholars in the field from the United Kingdom and Ireland. Each contributor has been invited to select and analyse a `leading work', which has for them shed light on the way that Law and Religion are intertwined. The chapters are both auto-biographical, reflecting upon the works that have proved significant to contributors, and also critical analyses of the current state of th…
Roman Canon Law in the Church of England
Frederic William Maitland is usually viewed as the founder of the study of English legal history. Maitland’s work deserves to be reclaimed and understood a leading work in Law and Religion studies. Maitland not only analysed the ecclesiastical law of the Church of England in the same way as he analysed the common law, but also explored the interplay between religiously-imposed and state-imposed laws. The Stubbs-Maitland debate concerns the status…
Christianity and Natural Law
Historically, natural law has played a pivotal role in Christian approaches to the law, and a contested role in legal philosophy generally. However, comparative study of natural law across global Christian traditions is largely neglected. This book provides not only the history of natural law ideas across mainstream Christian traditions worldwide, but also an ecumenical comparison of the contemporary natural law positions of different traditions.…
John Bowen
Relational Autonomy and Religious Tribunals
Academic writing on the place and status of religious tribunals in western societies has focused upon the ‘minorities within minorities’ debate: the extent to which States should intervene to ensure that the citizenship rights of female group members are protected and that religious tribunals do not discriminate on grounds of sex. In a number of recent publications following the Cardiff research on Social Cohesion and Civil Law: Marriage, Divorce…
Democracy, Law, and Religious Pluralism in Europe
The continued importance, and diversity of, religion and belief in contemporary society challenges traditional conceptions of religion–state relations in Europe. In this timely and substantial collection, a number of prolific authors tackle the key question whether the current era is characterized by secularism or post-secularism. The scene is admirably set in the introductory chapter by Camil Ungureanu entitled ‘Uses and Abuses of Post-Secularis…
Law and Religion in the 21st Century
Law and Faith in a Sceptical Age by Anthony Bradney
Church-State Relations in Europe
This article contends that scholarship itself has become a barrier to the understanding of church and state relations in Europe. It argues that legal analysis to date has taken an overly narrow approach, focussing purely on the means by which religion is recognised and ignoring the end. The first part of the article elucidates and critiques the three models conventionally elucidated by lawyers (the state church systems, separation (secular) syste…
The Strange Death of Blasphemy
Recent years have witnessed a considerable growth in legislation and litigation concerning religion. This article examines the implications of the latest change, namely the abolition of the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel by section 79 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. First, the article provides the context by examining what has been lost, analysing the ambit of the offence, focussing on litigation in the twentieth ce…
Church–State Relations in Europe
Academic lawyers frequently distinguish between three models of church–state relations in Europe: state–church systems, separation systems and hybrid systems. However, the sociologist of religion Grace Davie has suggested that by using sociological, historical and legal evidence to understand religion in Europe, we can reveal a basic common ‘European’ approach to religion, which also acknowledges the differences between the northern Protestant st…
The Strange Death of Blasphemy
Recent years have witnessed a considerable growth in legislation and litigation concerning religion. This article examines the implications of the latest change, namely the abolition of the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel by section 79 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. First, the article provides the context by examining what has been lost, analysing the ambit of the offence, focussing on litigation in the twentieth ce…
Church–State Relations in Europe
Academic lawyers frequently distinguish between three models of church–state relations in Europe: state–church systems, separation systems and hybrid systems. However, the sociologist of religion Grace Davie has suggested that by using sociological, historical and legal evidence to understand religion in Europe, we can reveal a basic common ‘European’ approach to religion, which also acknowledges the differences between the northern Protestant st…
Church-State Relations in Europe
This article contends that scholarship itself has become a barrier to the understanding of church and state relations in Europe. It argues that legal analysis to date has taken an overly narrow approach, focussing purely on the means by which religion is recognised and ignoring the end. The first part of the article elucidates and critiques the three models conventionally elucidated by lawyers (the state church systems, separation (secular) syste…
The Strange Death of Blasphemy
Recent years have witnessed a considerable growth in legislation and litigation concerning religion. This article examines the implications of the latest change, namely the abolition of the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel by section 79 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. First, the article provides the context by examining what has been lost, analysing the ambit of the offence, focussing on litigation in the twentieth ce…
Law and Faith in a Sceptical Age by Anthony Bradney
Law and Religion in the 21st Century
Democracy, Law, and Religious Pluralism in Europe
The continued importance, and diversity of, religion and belief in contemporary society challenges traditional conceptions of religion–state relations in Europe. In this timely and substantial collection, a number of prolific authors tackle the key question whether the current era is characterized by secularism or post-secularism. The scene is admirably set in the introductory chapter by Camil Ungureanu entitled ‘Uses and Abuses of Post-Secularis…
Relational Autonomy and Religious Tribunals
Academic writing on the place and status of religious tribunals in western societies has focused upon the ‘minorities within minorities’ debate: the extent to which States should intervene to ensure that the citizenship rights of female group members are protected and that religious tribunals do not discriminate on grounds of sex. In a number of recent publications following the Cardiff research on Social Cohesion and Civil Law: Marriage, Divorce…
Christianity and Natural Law
Historically, natural law has played a pivotal role in Christian approaches to the law, and a contested role in legal philosophy generally. However, comparative study of natural law across global Christian traditions is largely neglected. This book provides not only the history of natural law ideas across mainstream Christian traditions worldwide, but also an ecumenical comparison of the contemporary natural law positions of different traditions.…
John Bowen
Leading Works in Law and Religion
Leading Works in Law and Religion brings together leading and emerging scholars in the field from the United Kingdom and Ireland. Each contributor has been invited to select and analyse a `leading work', which has for them shed light on the way that Law and Religion are intertwined. The chapters are both auto-biographical, reflecting upon the works that have proved significant to contributors, and also critical analyses of the current state of th…
Roman Canon Law in the Church of England
Frederic William Maitland is usually viewed as the founder of the study of English legal history. Maitland’s work deserves to be reclaimed and understood a leading work in Law and Religion studies. Maitland not only analysed the ecclesiastical law of the Church of England in the same way as he analysed the common law, but also explored the interplay between religiously-imposed and state-imposed laws. The Stubbs-Maitland debate concerns the status…
A Systems Theory Re-Construction of Law and Religion
Law and Religion has rapidly developed as an academic sub-discipline in English and Welsh Law Schools in the 21st century amidst a significant amount of legislation, litigation, and public debate about religion. However, there are signs that this sub-discipline is becoming inward looking and stagnating. This article takes a step back and uses Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory to explore how Law and Religion has developed as a sub-discipline.…
Unregistered Religious Marriages Are Neither Valid Nor Void
A comment on the decision in Her Majesty's Attorney General v Akhter & Anor [2020] EWCA Civ 122, in which the Court of Appeal confirmed that unregistered religious marriages are to be regarded as ‘non-qualifying ceremonies’ which are outside the scope of marriage legislation
Religion and Marriage Law
Successive governments have made progressive, but ad hoc reforms to marriage law in Britain. This book provides the first accessible guide to how contemporary marriage law interacts with religion. It reveals the need for the consolidation, modernisation and reform of marriage law and sets out proposals for transformation.
Marital Problems
This article explores the Law Commission's proposals on how and where people can get married in England and Wales as found in their ‘Getting Married’ Consultation Paper. It examines the extent to which the Commission's proposals will deal with or mitigate concerns expressed about two types of non-qualifying wedding ceremonies: ‘unregistered religious marriages’ where the couple undergo a religious ceremony that does not comply with the requiremen…
Cohabitation and Religious Marriage
The Law Commission for England and Wales’ current review of the law on getting married highlights that there are a number of difficulties with the current law. The Marriage Act 1949 has failed to keep up to date with the realities of intimate adult relationships in the twenty-first century. This is underscored by the ever-rising number of cohabiting couples and the worrying continuing prevalence of the common law marriage myth: A large number of …
Celebrating Marriage
Journal Article Celebrating Marriage: A New Weddings Law Get access Celebrating Marriage: A New Weddings Law, London: Law Commission for England and Wales, Report no. 408, 2022, pp, Online Report Russell Sandberg Russell Sandberg Cardiff University, Wales, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Volume 37, Issue 1, 2023, ebad031, https…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (8 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (8 works) · Religious Freedom and Discrimination (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Marriage and Sexual Relationships (5 works) · History (4 works)