Dr. Tahir Mahmood Receives the 2010 Distinguished Service Award

Text of Dr. Mahmood’s Keynote Address now available here.

The International Center for Law and Religion Studies was pleased to honor renowned jurist and scholar Dr. Tahir Mahmood, Honorable Member, Eighteenth Law Commission of India, with the Distinguished Service Award at the opening session of the Seventeenth Annual International Law and Religion Symposium on 3 October 2010 in Provo, Utah. The award is given to outstanding proponents of the cause of freedom of religion or belief worldwide, and the Center is deeply honored that Dr. Mahmood, who has inaugurated, attended, and presided over…

Keynote Speaker Symposium 2010: Judge Thomas B. Griffith

Text of Judge Griffith’s address now available here.

The International Center for Law and Religion Studies was honored to welcome the Honorable Thomas B. Griffith, Judge United States Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia, as a keynote speaker at the opening session of the Seventeenth Annual International Law and Religion Symposium, held Sunday evening, 3 October 2010 in the Moot Court Room of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. Judge Griffith was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in June 2005. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1978 and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1985. Judge Griffith was engaged in private practice from 1985 through 1989 in Charlotte, North…