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Human Dignity Panel at the J. Reuben Clark Law Society Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington.

Co-sponsor with Mexican Senate and Mexican Office of Religious Affairs

ICLRS Founding Director Cole Durham will lecture at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

Associate Director Elizabeth Clark will participate in a panel at the University of Pennsylvania Law School to discuss religious liberty challenges. The panel is part of Interfaith Philadelphia's year-long civil dialogue series, A Year of Civil Conversations, and will take place at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

Ruth Renlund, Speaker

Amity University International School, Abu Dhabi

Associate Director Gary Doxey will speak during the National Day of Prayer.

7th ACLARS Annual Conference, Gaborone, Botswana

                  To watch video of the event or learn more about the event, please visit religiousfreedom.byu.edu or this link.

Associate Director Gary Doxey will speak during the 49th General Assembly of the Organization of the American States held in Colombia.

The course on Religion and Human Rights will be held at the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies at Gadjah Mada University in Yogayakarta, Indonesia.

The Conference on Indigenous Religions will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia.

ICLRS Director Brett Scharffs will teach a course on law and religion at the China University of Politics and Law in Beijing, China.

The 2019 Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) Summit on Religious Liberty will take place in Laguna Niguel, California.

The Religion and Rule of Law Certificate Training Program will take place in Beijing, China.

The New Religions Movements conference will take place in Beijing, China.

  To watch the recorded event or to learn more, click on this link.

Professor Cole Durham participated on a panel titled, 'Combating Discrimination Against Muslims, Christians, and Members of Other Religions and Beliefs' at the Second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom.  The event was also attended by Gary Doxey, Brett Scharffs, David Colton, and Senior Fellows Denise Posse-Blanco Lindberg and Neil A. Lindberg. To learn more about the […]

2019 Young Scholars with faculty                                         A 3-week training course for international faculty, graduate students, and government officials with the goals of: · Learning to teach a course in Law and Religion · Participating in writing […]

The event will take place in London, England.

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

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.

On February 10th, the Brigham Young University Law School’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and the Technology, Law and Security Program at American University Washington College of Law co-sponsored a one-day discussion on the ODIHR new publication […]

Associate Director Elizabeth Clark joined a round table with a delegation from Kazakhstan, members of the US State Department, and representatives of NGOs and religious associations to discuss issues of international religious freedom.

Please join the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) for a briefing on the nexus of freedom of religion or belief and security, including findings from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights’ (ODIHR) recent publication, Freedom of Religion or Belief and Security: Policy Guidance. In the OSCE […]

Professor W. Cole Durham, Jr. teaches law and religion at NALSAR.

On February 24, 2020, the European Union Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hosted a diplomatic luncheon to discuss the Punta del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere. The event was organised under the auspices of the Mission of the Republic of Honduras to the European Union and the […]

W. Cole Durham, Jr. participating

Human Dignity: Perspectives from Sociology, Law, Ethics, Religion, and Philosophy Minsk, Belarus

Central European University, Vienna, Austria

Nairobi, Kenya

London and Windsor Castle

The freedom to practice one’s religion is one of the most significant rights a human can possess. Join us for the Religious Freedom Annual Review where attendees will hear media, legal, and religious leaders from around the country speak on topics such as why religious freedom matters, how we can find common ground with LGBTQ […]

Bologna, Italy