Law and Religion Resources

US Government Offices

Organization Resource Links

African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ACLARS)
ANAJURE (Associação Nacional de Juristas Evangélicos / Brasil)
American Academy of Religion
 (AAR)
Religious Liberty Archive (US)
Cardus (Canada)
Center for Comparative Constitutional Law and Religion (CCCLR – University of Lucerne)
Centers of Innovation: Religion and Peacemaking (United States Institute of Peace)
Center on Faith & International Affairs (CFIA)
Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE)
Commonwealth Initiative for Freedom of Religion or Belief (CIFoRB)
Conciencia Nacional por la Libertad Religiosa (México)
Conference of European Churches (CEC)
Council of Europe: Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights
Ecclesiastical Law Society
EUREL
 (Society, Law, and Religion in Europe)
European Consortium for Church and State Research
European Court of Human Rights
European Platform on Religious Intolerance and Discrimination (EPRID)
European Studies on Religion and State Interaction (EuReSIS NET)
Freedom 4 Faith (Australia)
HUDOC (European Court of Human Rights Search Portal)
Institute for Global Engagement (IGE)
International Association for the History of Religions [IAHR]
International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF)
International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS) (Milan)
Jurist Legal News and Research (University of Pittsburg)
Latin American Consortium for Religious Liberty (Consorcio Latinoamericano de Libertad Religiosa)
Law and Religion Scholars Network (LARSN)
Legal-Profession.org (Frankfurt am Main)
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project
Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project
President of the European Parliament
RELIGARE Project (Religious Diversity and Secular Models in Europe)
Religious Freedom (LDS Newsroom)
Religious Freedom Guide (University of Virginia)
Religions & Convictions (CIERL, Brussels)
Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Information System (TANDIS)
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
Universität Trier:EU, Church-State Materials
The Venice Commission (Council of Europe)
The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO)

Academic, Research, and Training Centers

Academy of European Law (ERA)
Applied Study of Law and Religion (Oxford Brookes University)
The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC)
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs (Georgetown University)
Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life (Boston College)
Cardus Law (Canada)
The Center for Civil & Human Rights (University of Notre Dame)
Center for Islam and Religious Freedom (CIRF) in Washington, DC
Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University School of Law (CLR Forum)
Center for Studies of New Religions (CESNUR)
Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR) (Emory Law)
Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture (IUPUI)
Center for the Study of Religious Freedom (Virginia Wesleyan College)
Centre for Law and Religion (Cardiff University)
The Centre for the Study of Law & Religion (University of Bristol School of Law)
The Center on Faith & International Affairs (Institute for Global Management)
Center for Religion & Civic Culture (University of Southern California)
Center for Religion & Public Affairs (Wake Forest University School of Divinity)
Center for Religious Liberty (The Catholic University of America)
Center for Religious Studies (ISR) at Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK)
Centro de Libertad Religiosa – Derecho UC (Chile)
Chair in Law and Religions (Catholic University of Louvain)
The Church Law Society (ChLS, Charles University, Prague)
Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE)
Complutense University Seminar of Professors of Church-State Relations
Consejo Argentino para la Libertad Religiosa (CALIR)
Consorcio Latinoamericano de Libertad Religiosa
David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies (Brigham Young University)
The Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion (University of Birmingham)
European Consortium for Church-State Research
Faculty for Comparative Study of Religions (Antwerp)
First Amendment Center (Vanderbilt U and the Newseum)
FORB Learning Platform
GLIN (Global Legal Information Network)
GlobaLex (NYU Law School)
HeinOnline (subscription)
INFORM (The Information Network on Religious Movements)
Institute of the Bill of Rights (Wm & Mary Law School)
Initiative on Religion in International Affairs (Belfer Center, Harvard University)
Institute for European Constitutional Law (IECL) (University of Trier)
Institute for Global Engagement (IGE)
Institute for Religion, Culture, & Public Life (IRCPL) (Columbia University)
The Institute for Religious Freedom, Kyiv (IRF)
Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) (Baylor University)
Instituto Metodológico de Derecho Eclésiastico del Estado (IMDEE)
Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Religions and Secularity (CIERL) (Université Libre de Bruxelle)
Interfaith Alliance: Protecting Faith and Freedom
International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF)
The International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS) (Milan)
International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies Malaysia (IAIS)
J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies (Baylor University)
John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics
Law & Religion Programme (University of Siena)
Law and Religion Scholars Network (LARSN)
Law Library of Congress
Legal Information Institute (LII – Cornell)
The Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion (The University of Chicago Divinity School)
Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities
Muslims in Britain Research Network
Newseum Institute
Newseum / First Amendment Center
Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network (NSRN)
Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics (Pepperdine University)
Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
One Crown Office Row
Open University Sacred and Secular Blogs
The Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project
Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project
The Pluralism Project at Harvard University
Pu Shi Institute for Social Sciences
Religion, Law and International Relations Programme, Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture (Regent’s Park College)
Religions in Armenia
Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion (RUSSLR) (University of Adelaide)
Religio West (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute)
The Religion and Spirituality in Russia and Eastern Europe (RSREE) Study Group [ba|sees] United Kingdom
The Religion and State Project (RAS) at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel [on ARDA]
Religion, Martyrdom and Global Uncertainties (The Open University)
Freedom Forum Institute (Religious Freedom Center)
Religious Freedom Institute
Religious Freedom Page, University of Virginia Library
The Russian Association of Scholars in Religion (RUSOIR)  [Religion Russia: Websites]
The School of Russian and Asian Studies (SRAS)
THEOS: Underdertanding Faith. Enriching Society (UK)
Universität Trier: EU, Church-State Materials
William Temple Foundation: Shaping debate on religion in public life (UK)
The World Law Institute (Emory Law)

All Party Parliamentary Group for InternationalFreedom of Religion or Belief (UK)
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ)
Arigatou International (interreligious efforts and children)
Association International pour la Défense de la Liberté Religieuse
Associazione Internazionale per la Difesa della Libertà Religiosa (AIDLR)
Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC)
Becket Law (formerly Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
Center for Islam and Religious Freedom (CIRF) in Washington, DC
Center for Studies of New Religions (CESNUR)
Central-European Religious Freedom Institute (CERF)
East African Centre for Law & Justice (EACLJ) – Kenya
El Centro de Libertad Religiosa – Derecho UC (Chile)
Center for Interreligious Understanding (CIU)
Christian Concern
Christian Legal Society (CLS)
Consejo Argentino para la Libertad Religiosa (CALIR)
Consorcio Latinoamericano de Libertad Religiosa
Ethics and Public Policy Center
European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ)
Europe Infos (Christian Perspectives on the EU)
European Interfaith Youth Network (EIYN)
European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom (EIFRF)
The First Amendment Center
Freedom Declared (UK All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief – APPG)
Freedom Forum Institute (Religious Freedom Center)
Freedom House
FORB Learning Platform
Gerard Noodt Foundation
Hindu American Foundation
Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights without Frontiers (HRWF)
The Institute for Religious Freedom, Kyiv (IRS)
The Institute for Religion & Democracy (IRD)
The INSTITUTE on Religion and Public Policy (IRPP)
The International Centre for the Protection of Human Rights (INTERIGHTS, London)
International Coalition for Religious Freedom (ICRF)
International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS)
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF)
International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF)
International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA)
The Lawyers Christian Fellowship (LCF – UK)
Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe
Open Religious Policy Forum (Forum Offene Religionspolitik – FOR)
Oslo Coalition for Freedom of Religion or Belief

Osservatorio delle Libertà e delle Istituzioni Religiose (OLIR)
Pacific Justice Institute
Religiones Por la Paz (RPP)
Religions for Peace (RFP)
Slavic Centre for Law and Justice (SCLJ)
SOVA SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis
Tannenbaum | Center for Interreligious Understanding 
Thomas More Society
Tony Blair Faith Foundation
Winsome Training Center Utah China
The Witherspoon Institute
World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP)

News Sources, Newsletters, Blogs

Adventist News Network (ANN)
Aleteia
Alfa y Omega (Spain)
Alltop Muslim News
Al-Monitor
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ)
Anglican Communion News Service (ACN)
Arc of the Universe
AsiaNews.it
Associated Baptist Press (ABP)
Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) Press Room
Bahá’í World News Service
Baptist Joint Committee (BJC)
Baptist Press
Belief Net
Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China
Blog on Law, Religion & Politics (Leiden University)
B’nai B’rith International
BosNewsLife
Catholic News Agency (CNA)
Catholic News Service
 (CNS – Vatican)
Center for Islam and Religious Freedom (CIRF)
Central-European Religious Freedom Institute
Christian Concern (UK)
The Christian Institute (UK)
Christian Newswire (distribution service)
The Christian Post
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW)
Christianity Today (Politics Blog)
CLR Forum (Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s Universtiy School of Law)
CNN Belief Blog
Convivium
Counsel on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Deseret News National Edition
Droit des Religions
ECHR Blog (European Convention, Antoine Buyse)
Ecumenical News International (ENI)
European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ)
European Courts Blog
Europe Infos (Christian Perspectives on the EU)
First Things (The Institute on Religion and Public Life)
The Foundry (Heritage Foundation Blog)
FORB Learning Platform
Forum 18 News Service  (Oslo, Norway)
Freedom of Conscience (CAP – Liberté de Conscience)
Gatestone Institute of International Policy
God and Politics in the UK
Huffington Post Religion

JURIST
The Immanent Frame (Secularism, religion, and the public sphere)
Interfax-Religion (Russia News)
The Institute for Religious Freedom, Kyiv (IRF)
The Institute on Religion & Democracy
Islam Online
The Interfaiith Observer
Jewish Journal
JTA: The Global News Service of the Jewish People
Juicy Ecumenism (The blogging community of the IRD)
Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs
Law & Religion UK (Frank Cranmer and David Pocklington)
Library of Law & Liberty (Liberty Fund)
LifeSiteNews
Minaret of Freedom News

Mirror of Justice (Catholic Legal Theory)
The Muslim News – UK
OUP Blog – Religion
Pew Forum Religion News on the Web
Public Spirit (hosted by the Centre for the Study of the Ethnicity and Citizenship, Bristol University)
Religions in Armenia
Religion & Politics (John C. Danforth Center)
Religion Clause (Howard Friedman)
Religion Dispatches
Religion in American History
Religion Law Blog (Neil Addison, Liverpool UK)
Religion News Blog
Religion News Service
Religion Watch (Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
Religious Freedom (promoting the vision of Article 18)
Religious Freedom News
Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU)
Religious Left Law
Relitious Studies Resource Guide (Super Summary)
The Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion & Media (NYU)
School of Human Rights Research Blog (The Netherlands)
SCOTUSblog (U.S. Supreme Court news)
Strasbourg Observers  (Developments in case law of the ECtHR)
Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life
Thomas More Society
Turtle Bay and Beyond
The Wall of Separation (Americans United for Separation of Church and State)
The Washington Post – On Faith
World Magazine
Worldwide Religious News (WWRN)
U.K. Human Rights Blog
Vatican Radio
The Volokh Conspiracy (Washington Post)
World Council of Churches
World Watch Monitor
Worldwide Faith News (WFN)
Your Middle East
Zenit: The World seen from Rome 

Journals, Encyclopedias, Book Series

African Human Rights Law Journal (AHRLJ) 
Annuaire Droit et Religions (PUAM)
Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento | Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient
Annali di Studi Religiosi (FBK)
Anuario de Derecho eclesiástico del Estado 
Archive of public law (AöR) 

The British Yearbook of International Law (Cambridge)
(Cambridge) Journal of Law and Religion (JLR)
Church Law Review (Prague)
Comparative Islamic Studies
Derecho y Religión
Ecclesiastical Law Journal (ELJ, Cambridge)
The Encyclopedia of Law and Religion (Brill)
European Constitutional Law Journal  (EuConst, Cambridge)
European Journal for Church and State Research
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
The European Journal of International Law (Oxford)
The ICLARS Series on Law and Religion (Routledge)
International Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ, Cambridge)
International Encyclopaedia for Religion (Wolters Kluwer)
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (Springer)
International Journal for Religious Freedom (IJRF, International Institute for Religious Freedom)
International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church (Routledge)
International Journal of Constitutional Law (I * CON, Oxford)
International Journal of Latin American Religions (Springer)
International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family (Oxford)
Islamic Law and Society (Brill )
Islamic Studies (Islamic Research Institute)
Ius Ecclesiae Journal of Church and State  (Baylor)
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley Online Library)
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
Journal of Church & State (Oxford)
Journal of Law and Religion (Hamline)
Journal of Law and Religion (Rutgers)
Journal of Law, Religion and State (Brill)
Journal of Religion in Europe (JRE)
Law & Justice: The Christian Law Review (The Edmund Plowden Trust)
Law & Religion eJournal (SSRN; Pepperdine University School of Law)
Oxford Journal of Law and Religion
Religion & Human Rights (Brill)
Religion and Human Rights (Springer)
The Review of Faith & International Affairs
Revue du droit des religions
Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion (RJLR)
UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law