Events

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