Visiting Associate Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Dmytro Vovk is a visiting associate professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he teaches international human rights, law and religion, and the rule of law. He is also an affiliated researcher of the Cardozo Law Institute of Holocaust and Human Rights and the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law at University of Queensland. Professor Vovk has been a rule of law, constitutional law, and religious freedom expert for several international institutions. From 2019 to 2025, he was a member of the OSCE/ODIHR Expert Panel on Freedom of Religion or Belief, where he coordinated the working group on freedom of religion or belief and gender. He also testified before the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and briefed the US State Department and members of the UK Parliament. He has published extensively on religious freedom and church-state relations in post-Soviet countries and beyond. Among his recent publications are Human Dignity, Judicial Reasoning, and the Law: Comparative Perspectives on a Key Constitutional Concept (Routledge, 2024); “Freedom of Religion and Gender Equality Across the OSCE Region” for the Review of Faith and International Affairs (2022); “The Soviet and Post-Soviet Law: Failed Transition from Socialist Legality to the Rule of Law” for the Ideology and Politics Journal (2021); and Religion During the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict (Routledge, 2019). Professor Vovk is a coeditor of the blog Talk About: Law and Religion.