Dmytro Vovk
Dmytro Vovk is a visiting professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and New York Law School where he teaches international human rights, law and religion, and US constitutional law. He is also an affiliated researcher of the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights and the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law at University of Queensland. He was a Kenan-Fulbright fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a visiting researcher at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School.
Vovk has been a rule of law, constitutional law, and religious freedom expert for international institutions, including the OSCE, and on several EU projects. He has testified before and briefed the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, the US State Department, members of the UK Parliament, and the UK Foreign Office. As an international religious freedom expert, he has been involved in trainings, interfaith dialogue programs, and meetings with state officials, civil society leaders, and religious leaders in Vietnam, Ukraine, and countries in Central Asia and the Balkans.
Vovk has advised the Ukrainian government and the country’s State Agency for Ethnic Policies and Freedom of Conscience and submitted amicus briefs to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. From 2019 to 2025, Vovk was a member of the OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief.