Freedom of Religion or Belief: Round Table Discussion in the UK House of Lords – June 2016

A Round Table Discussion, Freedom of Religion or Belief – Emerging Trends, Challenges and Agendas for Change, took place Wednesday, 8th June 2016, at the House of Lords in London. Participating in the two-hour discussion were Prof Sir Malcolm Evans OBE (Bristol University UK), Prof Mark Hill QC (Cardiff University UK), Prof Robert P. George (Princeton University USA), Elder Dallin H. Oaks (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Prof W. Cole Durham, Jr. (Brigham Young University USA), and Dr Peter Petkoff (Brunel and Regent’s Park College, Oxford UK). The participants were welcomed to Parliament by Baroness Elizabeth Berridge of the Vale of Catmose, Member of the House of Lords and Founder/Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group.

The Round Table was organized by the Brunel Law and Religion Research Group; the Religion, Law and International Relations Programme, Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College, Oxford; The All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief; the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion; the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute Oxford; and the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (Milan).