Watch the event here.  Moderator: Brett Scharffs, Rex E. Lee Professor of Law and Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School Panelists: Kristina Arriaga, Commissioner, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Roger D. Carstens, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State Ján […]

Associate Directors Gary Doxey and David Moore and Senior Fellows Denise and Neil Lindberg took part in a week long religious freedom conference that included events and meetings in Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panama. The event, co- sponsored by the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, culminated in the signing of an agreement between […]

The event held at Oxford was co-sponsored by the Quill Project, based at Pembroke College, and by the BYU International Center for Law and Religion Studies. Elder Quentin Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered the keynote address titled "The Impact of Religious Freedom on […]

“Secularity, Secularism, and Religion in the Post-Soviet Space: Historical, Legal and Philosophical Approaches” Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic 23-25 of October 2019 Sponsored by the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, and the Center for Religious Studies of Kyrgyzstan

Brett Scharffs to present on Human Dignity as Underpinning for Religious Freedom

The fifth annual Southeast Asia Freedom of Religion or Belief Conference will take place in Bangkok, Thailand.

The conference will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The book launch will take place in Rehovot, Israel.

Join us on Tuesday, November 19 to hear Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, Director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University in New York City, speak on the recent publication, Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States. From the abstract: Turning to the Hebrew Bible for […]

The conference and book launch will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam.

For a full description of the project, please read the full document:  https://www.iclrs.org/app/uploads/2019/09/Christian-Perspectives-on-Human-Dignity-and-Human-Rights.pdf The organizers invite scholars at any level of their careers to submit an abstract of no more than 300-words and one-page CV by December 10, 2019 to [email protected] (Andrea Pin) AND [email protected] (Dmytro Vovk). The abstract should address at least one of […]

The training program will take place in Mandalay, Myanmar.