19th Annual Symposium, “Religion, Democracy, and Civil Society” – 7-9 October 2012
The 19th Annual International Law and Religion Symposium was held 7-9 October 2012 at the J. Reuben Clark Law School on the campus of Brigham Young University.
The Symposium – “Religion, Democracy, and Civil Society” – opened as delegates, invited guests, hosts, students, and friends of the university, as well as viewers worldwide accessing the live Internet stream, heard keynote addresses by Professor Silvio Ferrari, Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook, and Commissioner Katrina Lantos Swett. Professor Ferrari also received this year’s Distinguished Service Award.
During the two days following, more than 75 experts – including government and religious leaders as well as leading academics, from the United States and more than 40 other countries – met in plenary sessions to consider the topics “The Role of Religion in Democratic Transformations”, “Religious Organizations, Civil Society, and Pluralism”, “Religion…
Professor Douglas Laycock Honored at 2012 International Religious Liberty Award Dinner
The 2012 Religious Liberty Honor was presented to Professor Douglas Laycock at the third International Religious Freedom Awards Dinner, held 11 October 2012 at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington DC. The award is given annually by the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University.
Also announced at the Awards Dinner were the winners of the Third Annual Religious Freedom Student Writing Competition.
Those in attendance at the dinner were welcomed by Michael Merrell, Chair of the International Religious Liberty Award Committee. The invocation…
Winners of the 2012 Religious Freedom Student Writing Competition
Winners of the Third Annual Religious Freedom Student Writing Competition were announced at an Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C., on 11 October 2012:
First Place – Aaron R. Petty, “Faith, However Defined”: Reassessing JFS and the Judicial Conception of “Religion”
Second Place – Brian K. Mosely, Zoning Religion Out of the Public Square: Constitutional Avoidance and Conflicting Interpretations of RLUIPA’s Equal Terms Provision…
ICLRS Service Awards to Outstanding BYU Law Students
At the BYU Law Schools Barrister’s Ball Awards Ceremony on 30 March 2012, the International Center for Law and Religion Studies was pleased to make the following awards to graduating students who have made extraordinary contributions to work of the Center.
The Outstanding Service Award was presented to Jordan Teuscher, Rebecca Hansen, and M. Brandon Bastian.
The Three-Year Law and Religion Symposium Service Award was presented to Tyler Albrechtsen, Heath Becker, Kimberly Tolman, and Nate White.
Please click their names to read more about these remarkable students.
Third Annual Religious Freedom Student Writing Competition
All submissions for the Third Annual Religious Freedom Student Writing Competition have now been received. The competition is sponsored by the Washington DC Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University. Awards will be presented at the Religious Freedom Awards Dinner in Washington DC on October 11, 2012.
The contest seeks scholarly papers relating to the topic of religious freedom, broadly…
Center Hosts Visitors from Africa
The International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS) was privileged to host visitors from Africa who were in the United States as part of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program, U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights, a Regional Project for Africa. The program was arranged by Meridian International Center. ICLRS leaders Cole Durham, Robert Smith, Elizabeth Clark, and David Kirkham hosted the distinguished guests at the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University on 2 April 2012.
Visitors were from nine African countries, as well as from France…