Dean and Director of Studies; Tutorial Fellow in Law; Director, Centre for Law and Religion, Regent’s Park College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Peter Petkoff is an associate professor and a tutorial law fellow at Regent’s Park College, and he serves as managing editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. He is a legal consultant on media freedom and freedom of expression for the Representative on Freedom of the Media at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and is involved in cutting edge research on the relationship between religion and politics and law and religion. He is currently writing a book for Oxford University Press on holy sites under international law. In his capacity as director of the Centre for Law and Religion at Regent’s Park College, he brings together lawyers, policymakers, theologians, philosophers, social scientists, and political scientists with the goal of developing innovative interdisciplinary strategies for studying law, religion, and international relations from legal and theological perspectives. Previously, Professor Petkoff was a reader at the School of Law at Brunel University of London, where he was involved in developing an innovative program in intellectual property practice and management for aspiring patent and trademark attorneys as well as creating modules on philosophical foundations of intellectual property, comparative and European media law and regulation, and international cultural heritage law.