Freedom of Religion in Transnational Contract and Commercial Transactions

This chapter seeks to address religious freedom not from the typical public law or human rights lens, which is its natural domain, but rather from the perspective of contract and commercial law. It is not suggested that freedom of religion plays a large part in the construction of these legal disciplines. Nonetheless, it is exactly because little attention has been paid to the religious context of transnational commerce that an experimental, bottom-up approach examining the interface between commercial transactions and the role of religious freedom therein is a desirable component of this book. It provides an opportunity for an audience largely accustomed to treating religious freedom in its wider public law context to sample a perspective that would ordinarily escape its attention.