Director, Centre for Law and Religion

Peter Petkoff is a senior law lecturer at the Brunel Law School, where he is a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies and the director of the Religion, Law, and International Relations Program—a collaborative international research network at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. As program director, he brings together lawyers, theologians, philosophers, and social and political scientists with the aim to develop innovative interdisciplinary strategies for studying law, religion, and international relations from legal and theological perspectives. Mr. Petkoff is managing editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion and author of the book Holy Sites and International Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). 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 has been a TEPSA consultant of the European Parliament as well as a consultant for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief at the House of Lords.