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Priest(Clergy)-Penitent Privilege: Secondary Sources

Jennifer Gray's Research Guide

LEGAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS

American Jurisprudence Witnesses, 2nd Ed.

Corpus Juris Secundum (May 2023)

TESTIMONIAL PRIVILEGES

50 State Survey

50 STATE STATUTORY SURVEYS: Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting

RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND THE LAW

The clergy-penitent privilege

Duty to Report

Survey of State Statutes on clergy privilege and duty to report

LAW REVIEW ARTICLES

FORGIVE ME FATHER, FOR I HAVE SINNED: EXPLICITLY ENUMERATING CLERGY MEMBERS AS MANDATORY REPORTERS TO COMBAT CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN NEW YORK (2020)
BREAKING THE SEAL OF CONFESSION: EXAMINING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE CLERGY-PENITENT PRIVILEGE IN MANDATORY REPORTING LAW (2017)
EXORCISING THE CLERGY PRIVILEGE (2017)
THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF BROADENING CLERGY PENITENT PRIVILEGE STATUTES (2016)
THE PRIEST-PENITENT PRIVILEGE REVISITED: A REPLY TO THE STATUTES OF ABROGATION (2014)
WHOM MUST THE CLERGY PROTECT? THE INTERESTS OF AT-RISK CHILDREN IN CONFLICT WITH CLERGY-PENITENT PRIVILEGE (2012)
THE PRIEST-PENITENT PRIVILEGE V. CHILD ABUSE REPORTING STATUTES: HOW TO AVOID THE CONFLICT AND SERVE SOCIETY (2012)
SACRED SECRETS: A CALL FOR THE EXPANSIVE APPLICATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE CLERGY-COMMINICANT PRIVILEGE (1991)
MUST CLERGY TELL? CHILD ABUSE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS VERSUS THE CLERGY PRIVILEGE AND FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION (1987)