The Second Annual Oxford Journal of Law and Religion Summer Academy will be held 23-28 June 2014 at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford. The summer academy is a major international event which brings together leading academics, policy makers, international officials, and practising lawyers working in the field of law, religion, and international relations.

Keynote addresses will be delivered by Baroness Elizabeth Berridge, Member, House of Lords, and Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group on International Freedom of Religion or Belief of the British Parliament; Professor Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and Commissioner, United State Commission on International Religious Freedom; Professor Paul Fiddes, Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Oxford and formerly Principal of Regent’s Park College and Chairman of the Theology Faculty; and Professor Marie-Claire Foblets, Director, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, and Professor of Law at the Catholic University of Leuven/Louvain, where she was formerly Head of the Institute for Migration Law and Legal Anthropology.

Other speakers at the event:

• Brian Adams, Director, Centre for Interfaith & Cultural Dialogue, Australia
• Rex Ahdar, Professor in Law, University of Otago
• Seyed Yousif Al-Khoei OBE, Director of Public Affairs, Al-Khoei Benevolent Foundation
• David Anderson, Member of Parliament and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada
• Pasquale Annicchino, Research Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence
• Nicholas Aroney, Director of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
• Sima Avramovic, University of Belgrade Law School, Serbia
• Iain Benson, Visiting Professor, University of Western Ontario; Professor Extraordinary, Department of Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law, University of the Free State, Bloomfontein, South Africa
• Sophie C. van Bijsterveld, Member, Senate of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Professor of Public International Law at the University of Tilburg
• Merete Bilde, Policy Advisor, European External Action Service, Brussels
• Jean-Bernard Bolvin, Policy Advisor, European External Action Service, Brussels
• Sue Breeze, Head, Equality and Non-Discrimination Team, Human Rights and Democracy Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London 
• Isabella D. Bunn, Associate Director, Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College, Oxford 
• Barry W. Bussey, Vice-President for Legal Affairs, Canadian Council of Christian Charities
• Rinaldo Crisofori, Regent’s Park College, Oxford
• Joseph David, Hebrew University; The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
• Dennis de Jong, Member of European Parliament; Co-Chair of Working Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief
• Christopher Duggan, Senior Policy Officer, Office of Religious Freedom, Canada
• W. Cole Durham, Jr., Susa Young Gates Professor of Law and Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University; President, International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies
• Peter W. Edge, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University
• Annelie Enochson, Member of Parliament, Sweden
• Aykan Erdemir, Member of Parliament, Turkey
• James E. Faulconer, Director, Brigham Young University Limited (BYU London Centre)
• Willy Fautré, Director, Human Rights Without Frontiers 
• David Fawcett, Member of Parliament, Autralia
• Silvio Ferrari, Professor in Law, Milan University and Honorary Life President, International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies
• Paul Fiddes, Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Oxford and formerly Principal of Regent’s Park College and Chairman of the Theology Faculty
• Robin Gibbons, Fellow, Dean of Studies of Foundation House/Oxford, and Alexander Schmemann Professor of Eastern Christianity, Graduate Theological Foundation, Oxford
• Jessica Giles, The Open University School of Law, United Kingdom 
• Evaldo Xavier Gomes, Prior Provincial, Order of the Carmelites Provincial Chapter of Rio de Janiero; European University Institute, Florence
• Thomas B.  Griffith, Judge, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit 
• Brian Grim, President, Religious Freedom and Business Foundation
• Leonard Hammer, The David and Andrea Stein Visiting Professor of Modern Israel Studies, University of Arizona
• H. Reese Hansen, Past President, American Association of Law Schools
• Peter S. Heslam, Director, Transforming Business, Cambridge University, Visiting Fellow, Regent’s Park College, Oxford
• Mark W. Janis, Professor, University of Connecticut and University of Oxford
• Charlotte Keenan, Chief Executive, Tony Blair Faith Foundation
• David M. Kirkham, Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow for Comparative Law, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
• Elizabeta Kitanovic, Human Rights Secretary, Church & Society Commission, Conference of European Churches
• Merilin Kiviorg, Senior Researcher in Public International Law, University of Tartu, Faculty of Law, Estonia 
• Cécile Laborde, Fellow to the British Academy; Director, Religion and Political Theory Centre, University College, London
• Liat Levanon, Brunel University, London
• John Andrew Morrow, Associate Professor of Spanish and French, Ivy Tech Community College, United States
• Anthony O’Mahoney, Director of the Centre for Eastern Christianity, Heythrop College, University of London
• Jaclyn L. Neo, Assistant Professor of Law, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law
• Peter Petkoff, School of Law, Brunel University; Director of Religion, Law and International Relations Programme, Regent’s Park College, Oxford
• Leonardo Quintao, Member of the National Congress, Brazil
• Abid Raja, Member of Parliament, Sweden
• Romanna Remor, Alternate Parliamentarian, House of Representatives, , Brazil
• Julian Rivers, Professor of Jurisprudence, School of Law, University of Bristol 
• Rabbi Naftali Rothenberg, Jewish Culture and Identity Chair, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem
• Brett G. Scharffs, Associate Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Francis M. Kirkham Professor of Law, and Associate Dean, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
• Yuri Stoyanov, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
• Katrina Lantos Swett, Vice Chair, US Commission on International Religious Freedom
• H. Knox Thames, Director of Policy and Research, US Commission on International Religious Freedom
• David Taylor, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown University; Deputy Director, Christian Solidarity Worldwide
• Rik Torfs, Rector, Catholic University of Leuven
• Marco Ventura, University of Leuven 
• Gary Wilton, Director, Religion and International Relations Programme, Wilton Park, United Kingdom
• Kevin J Worthen, President, Brigham Young University

Event Organizers

Oxford University Press
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on International Freedom of Religion or Belief 
Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford
Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute, Balliol College, University of Oxford
Oxford Society for Law and Religion, University of Oxford
International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School, BYU
Brigham Young University Limited (BYU London Centre)
Centre for the Study of Law and Religion, School of Law, University of Bristol
International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (Milan)
Focus on Freedom of Religion or Belief Think Tank
Brunel Law and Religion Research Group
House of St. Gregory and St. Macrina