Cristiana Cianitto attended the Faculty of Law in the Università degli Studi in Milan, where she took her undergraduate degree in Law in 2000 and her PhD in Philosophy of Law, curriculum in Ecclesiastical and Canon Law, in 2005. Since October 2007 she has been a Lecturer in Canon Law at the University of Milan, Faculty of Law. Her main fields of investigation are church and state relationships in UK with a particular attention to the Anglican canon law and the British legal system in relation to religious issues and hate crimes, hate speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of expression in the UK, USA, India, and Italy. In 2008 she was a founding member of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS), and she has since continued as the general coordinator of ICLARS secretariat. She serves as a case note editor for the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion and is Coordinator of the Secretariat of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies. She is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Quaderni di diritto e politica ecclesiastica and a casenote editor of Oxford Journal of Law and Religion.
Lauren M. Flores is a JD/MPA candidate at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, where she is a member of the Student Management Board of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS). She received a bachelor degree in Communications from BYU, with minors in Editing, Spanish, and International Development. As in ICLRS Student Fellow in 2015 she completed an externship in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a research and writing contributor (Eritrea) to the Brill Encyclopedia of Law and Religion (2016).
Michael Goodrich is a JD candidate at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, where he is a member of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies' Student Management Board. He concentrates his legal studies on constitutional law with an emphasis in civil rights and First Amendment issues. As a Student Fellow for the Center in summer 2014, Michael worked in Auckland, New Zealand. He was a research and writing contributor to the Brill Encyclopedia of Law and Religion (2016).
Blythe Shupe joined the International Center for Law and Religion Studies in September 2015 as a Communications Specialist. She spent the previous ten years as an account manager in the world of pre-employment screening. In this position, she worked closely with Human Resources, Compliance Departments, and Security Departments of large companies setting up and monitoring background screening programs for new hires to ensure the client was hiring the best possible candidate while operating within federal, state, and local laws. She specialized in the complicated screening practices surrounding healthcare, financial firms and aviation. Prior to that, she spent nine years in various roles at WordPerfect Corporation. Blythe earned her Bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature from Brigham Young University.
Ashley Woolley is a writer and independent editor who provides academic editing and publication management services for major law schools in the United States. Her clients have included Stanford Law School and BYU Law School, for whom she worked most recently as content and format editor for the international Encyclopedia of Law and Religion, a project undertaken by the Law School's International Center for Law and Religion Studies in cooperation with Brill Publishers of the Netherlands. Ashley holds a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard. She received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School.
Deborah Wright has been with the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University Law School since 2001. She supervises the administrative staff and coordinates the activities of all Center personnel. The organization and scheduling of the Center's many conferences, including logistics, travel, accommodations, on campus and all around the world, fall upon her capable shoulders. Most especially, the continued success of the annual International Law and Religion Symposium wouldn't be possible without Deborah’s competence and tireless efforts in the year-round efforts of organization, planning, communication, and coordination of events and facilities, of faculty, students, delegates, hosts, and visitors, all of which combine to bring to pass such a complex undertaking. Conference participants: You may contact Deborah during the conference at [email protected].