Conference Papers
Papers of the 2009 St. Petersburg Conference
Договорные отношения между государством и церковью в Словацкой Республике (Contractual relationship between State and Church in the Slovak Republic) – in Russian
Michaela Moravčíková
“Hate Speech, Religious Beliefs, and the Limits on Freedom of Expression“
Francesa Perez Madrid
Papers of the 2009 Nepal Conference
“Women’s Political Participation: Needs, Issues and Challenges”
Awani Mainali Bhattarai and Laxmi Sharma
“Human Rights Building in Post-conflict Society: Universality of Human Rights, Global Judicial Forum and Building Human Rights Culture in Nepal”
Dinesh Tripathi
“Re-writing Fundamental Rights and Gender Issues in the New Constitution of Nepal”
Hari Phuyal
“Securing the Rights of Non-Resident Nepalis in the New Constitution of Nepal”
Khagendra Gharti Chetry
“Federalism in Nepal: Issues and Challenges”
Krishna Belbase
“The Judiciary: Concepts and Conditions to Improve the Judiciary in Nepal”
Kumar Regmi
“Characters of Nepali Society for Federal Goverment in Nepal”
Nepal Democratic Lawyers Association
Reference Materials
Nepal Professor Surya P. Subedi, University of Leeds, UK
Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal 1990
The Nepal Constitution of 1990: Preliminary Analysis (Ter Ellinsgon, copyright Himalayan Research Bulletin, reproduced in ASNIC Web)
Non-Resident Nepali Act (in Nepali)
The Bangalore Priniciples of Judicial Conduct 2002
Nepal Citizenship Act 2063 (2006)
Papers of the 2009 Civil Religion Conference
“Is laïcité the Civil Religion of France?”
Blandine Chelini-Point
“Civil Religion in Italy: A ‘Mission Impossible’?” [DRAFT]
Alessandro Ferrari
“Is a Civil Religion a Helpful Tool to Build Full and Responsible Citizenship?” [DRAFT]
Silvio Ferrari
“American Civil Religion: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone”
Frederick Mark Gedicks
“The New American Civil Religion: A Model for Italy?”
Andrew Koppelman
“Secular National and Incorporation of Religion by the State: Foundations of Civil Religion in Turkey”
Talip Kucukcan
“Liberal Democracy and Human Rights”
Michael J. Perry
“Creation and Preservation in the Constitution of Civil Religion”
Brett G. Scharffs
“Civil Religion in France: the Gallican Hypothesis”
Emmanuel Tawil
“A Civil Religion for Europe: How to Make Sense of the Past
Marco Ventura
Papers of the 2009 Christianity in the East Conference
“Christians in the Middle East: Challenges and Propsects“
George J. Hazou, Chairperson of the Department for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East Council of Churches, Amman, Jordan
“The Law no. 489/2006 on Religious Freedom and General Regime of Religious Cults in Romania“
Nicolae V. Dură, Vice-rector of the “Ovidius” University of Constanta, Romania
“Christianity in Jerusalem Today“
Raymond Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Boston College