List of Selected Scholarly Publications: Prof Shaun de Freitas (authored:†/co-authored:‡)
“Freedom of Religion in Communities of Legal Scholarship with a Christian Theology”, Australian Journal of Law and Religion (AJLR), (forthcoming). †
“Liberty of Association and a Charter for Religious Rights and Freedoms”, Journal of Church and State (J. Church State), Oxford University Press, Vol. 67, 4(2025), 1-10. †
“The Divergent Approaches of the Constitutional Court to the Right to Life and Ubuntu and the Implications for Civil Society”, Stellenbosch Law Review (SLR), Vol. 35, 2(2024), 195-219. ‡
“Gender Identity and the Protection of Ontological Difference through the Autonomy of Religious Associations”, International Journal for Religious Freedom (IJRF), Vol. 17, 2(2024), 113-127. ‡
“Advancing the Protection of the Right to Freedom of Religion in South Africa”, Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (PELJ), Vol. 27, (2024), 1-30. †
“Whose Equality? Freedom of Religious Associations and Gaum v Van Rensburg”, Journal of Law and Religion (JLR), Cambridge University Press, Vol. 38, 2(2023), 1-16. †
“A Reply to Camilla Pickles’ Pregnancy Law in South Africa: Between Reproductive Autonomy and Foetal Interests”, Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (PELJ), Vol. 25, (2022), 1-28. †
“Religion, Culture and the Constitutionality of the ‘Avoidance of Doctrinal Entanglement’ Principle”, Stellenbosch Law Review (SLR), Vol. 32, 3(2021), 435-454. †
“Freedom to agreed-upon religious upbringing of the child on dissolution of a marriage: A critique of Kotze v Kotze”, De Jure Law Journal, Vol. 54, (2021), 533-548. †
“Law, Judges and the Exclusionary Nature of Inclusion” in Inclusion, Exclusion and Religious Freedom in Contemporary Australia, Michael Quinlan (ed.), (Shepherd Street Press, an imprint of Connor Court Publishing: Australia, 2021), 47-71. †
“The Protection of Conscientious Objection against Euthanasia in Health Care”, Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (PELJ), Vol. 22, (2019), 1-32. ‡
“A Critique of Ronald Dworkin’s Limitation of Passive Forms of Religious Expression in the Public Sphere”, Tijdschrift voor Recht en Religie (Journal for Law and Religion) (NTKR - Netherlands), 1(2019), 61-75. †
“Organisasie vir Godsdienste-Onderrig en Demokrasie v Laerskool Randhart et al: The Right to Freedom of Religion, Diversity and the Public School”, Journal for Juridical Science (JJS), Special Issue on Education Law, Vol. 43, 2(2018), 32-52. ‡
“The protection of public schools with a religious ethos in South Africa against the background of Zylberberg v Sudbury Board of Education”, Stellenbosch Law Review (SLR), Vol. 28, 2(2017), 424-443. †
“Samuel Rutherford and the Protection of Religious Freedom in Early Seventeenth-Century Scotland”, Westminster Theological Journal (WTJ), Vol. 78, Fall (2016), 231-248, USA. ‡
“Transcending the Private-Public School Divide in the Context of the Right to Freedom of Religion in South Africa”, Chapter 19, in Religious Freedom and Religious Pluralism in Africa – Prospects and Limitations, P. Coertzen, M. Christian Green and L. D. Hansen (eds.), African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, (SUN PReSS: Stellenbosch, 2016), 325-341. †
“Doctrinal Sanction and the Protection of the Rights of Religious Associations: Ecclesia de Lange v The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of South Africa (726/13) [2014] ZASCA 151”, Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (PELJ), Vol. 19, (2016), 1-22. †
“Sexual Conduct, Appointments and the Slippery Slope of Harm and Economic Opportunity in the context of the Rights of Religious Associations”, Chapter 19, in Law and Religion in Africa – The quest for the common good in pluralistic societies, P. Coertzen, M. Christian Green and L. D. Hansen (eds.), African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, (SUN PReSS: Stellenbosch, 2015), 285-297. †
“Proselytism and the Right to Freedom from Improper Irreligious Influence: The Example of Public School Education”, Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (PELJ), Vol., 17, Issue 3, (2014), 868-887. †
“Religious Associational Rights and Sexual Conduct in South Africa: Towards the Furtherance of the Accommodation of a Diversity of Beliefs”, Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2013, Issue 3, (2013), 421-456. †
“The South African Constitutional Court and the Unborn”, International Journal for Religious Freedom (IJRF), Vol. 5, Issue 2, (2012), 51-61. †
“Samuel Rutherford’s theologico-political federalism in early American Society”, Journal for Christian Scholarship (JCS), Vol. 49, Issue 3, (2012), 1-42.‡
“A, B, & C v. Ireland: The Unborn and an Appreciation of the Margin of Appreciation”, Ave Maria International Law Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 1, (2012), 1-23. ‡
“Freedom of Association as a Foundational Right: Religious Associations and Strydom v Nederduitse Gereformeerde Gemeente Moreleta Park”, South African Journal on Human Rights (SAJHR), Special Issue: Religion and Human Rights, Vol. 28, Issue 2, (2012), 258-272. †
“Mottos, Prayer and the Public University”, South African Journal on Human Rights (SAJHR), Special Issue: Religion and Human Rights, Vol. 28, Issue 2, (2012), 176-195. †
“Freedom of conscience, medical practitioners and abortion in South Africa”, International Journal for Religious Freedom (IJRF), Vol. 4, Issue 1 – Advocacy and the Law, (2011), 75-85. †
“Seeking Deliberation on the Unborn in International Law”, Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (PELJ), Vol. 14, Issue 5, (2011), 8-37. ‡
“The Public University, Religion, and a Pluralist Platform for Communication”, Acta Theologica, (Supplementum 14 on Faith, Religion and the Public University), (2011), 31-48. †
“Modernity, the Judiciary and Christian Benevolence towards the Unborn”, Journal for Christian Scholarship (JCS), Vol. 46, Issues 1 & 2, (2010), 21-41. ‡
“The Unborn and A, B, & C v. Ireland”, Case Note, Journal for Juridical Science (JJS), Vol. 35, Issue 1, (2010), 93-112. ‡
“Belief and Legal Philosophy: A conceptual framework for Christian Scholarship in Undergraduate Legal Education”, KOERS: Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, Vol. 74, Issues 1 and 2, (2009), 43-66. †
Chapter in Book: “The Reformational Legacy of Theologico-political Federalism”, 49-68, in The Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism, Ann Ward and Lee Ward (eds.), (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Co., July 2009). ‡
“Civic Engagement, Belief and the Scholarly Aspect in Higher Education”, Journal for Christian Scholarship (JCS), Vol. 44, Issues 3 and 4, (2008), 1-25. †
“Religion, legal scholarship and higher education: perspectives for the South African context”, Acta Academica, Vol. 39, 3(2007), 45-66. †
“Humanity, the Unborn and the Intersection of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law”, African Yearbook on International Humanitarian Law (AYIHL), JUTA and Co. Ltd, (2007), 39-59. †
“Religion, Legal Scholarship and a Christian Response”, Journal for Christian Scholarship (JCS), Vol. 42, Issues 3 and 4, (2006), 25-56. †
“A critical retrospection regarding the legality of abortion in South Africa”, Journal for Juridical Science (JJS), Vol. 30, Issue 1, (2005), 118-145. †
“The Constitutional Dynamic of Civil Society and the Role of the Churches in South Africa”, Acta Academica, Vol. 37, Issue 2, (2005), 21-51. †
“Theologically United and Divided: The Political Covenantalism of Samuel Rutherford and John Milton”, Westminster Theological Journal (WTJ), Vol. 67, (2005), 301-21, USA. ‡
“Resistance, Rebellion and a Swiss Brutus?”, The Historical Journal, Vol. 48, Issue 1, (2005), 1-26, Cambridge University Press, UK. ‡
“From Heinrich Bullinger to Puritanism: John Hooper’s Theology and the Office of Magistracy”, Scottish Journal of Theology (SJT), Vol. 56, Issue 2, (2003), 208-230, Princeton and Yale, Cambridge University Press, UK. ‡
“Church Tribunals, Doctrinal Sanction and the South African Constitution”, Dutch-Reformed Theological Journal (now the Stellenbosch Theological Journal – STJ), Part 43, Numbers 1 and 2, March and June (2002), 276-284. ‡
“Theologico-political Federalism: The Office of Magistracy and the Legacy of Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575)”, The Westminster Theological Journal (WTJ), Vol. 63, (2001), 285-304, USA. ‡