HUMAN DIGNITY FROM JUDGES’ PERSPECTIVES
July 24-25, 2019
Pembroke College, Oxford

This conference, held 30-31 of July 2019, will launch the Human Dignity in Religious Traditions (HDRT) Project. A group of 8 scholars from different religious traditions will meet at Christ Church, Oxford to begin a conversation that maps the initial points of convergence and divergence on human dignity among the world’s religions; and to set […]

The third International Forum on Law and Religion (IFLR) will take place in Taguig City, Philippines.

The roundtable discussion will be held at Oxford, United Kingdom.

This conference will focus on the contemporary phenomenon of religious persecution, with a particular emphasis on better understanding how to diagnosis the causes of religious persecution in the world today, to reflect upon the diagnoses of how the persecution phenomena can be ameliorated, and what the treatments are to help address crises of persecution, and […]

                  Professor W. Cole Durham, Jr. participated in the WACLARS conference held 7-10 August 2019. More detail on the event can be found at this link.

Elizabeth Clark and Matthew K. Richards speak on 'Challenges to Religious Freedom: What’s on the Horizon? What Are the Priorities?' as part of the Understanding Religious Freedoms section of BYU Education Week.

Professor Brett Scharffs presents on the Punta del Este Declaration on Human Dignity to BYU Law students

The conference, held in Beijing, China, will be hosted by the Institute of World Religions of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese Religious Society.

Brett Scharffs will give a lecture at the Fudan University Center for the Study of Mormonism and Sino-US Relations in Shanghai, China.

The event will take place in Bangalore, India.

Professor Brett Scharffs to present on 'The Rule of Law, Democracy, and Human Rights: National Legal Reform in Southeast Asia'

Speaker: Dr. E. Wayne Gaddis, Sr. Religious Liberty Writing Awards to be presented: 1st: David Spicer (University of Notre Dame Law School – Class of 2020) - “A Compromise Forsaking Religious Freedom?: Reconciling Relations Between the Holy See and China 2nd: Timothy Bradley (University of Notre Dame Law School – Class of 2020) - “Religious […]

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