Monday, May 25, 2015

Religion and Law Consortium

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Welcome to the Site of the Religion and Law Consortium
Welcome to an ever-developing Internet site for researchers seeking information related to freedom of conscience, religion, or belief. We welcome you to browse the site to discover its functions.
  • International Headline News, posted daily. New users, subscribe to a daily e-mail digest at the Create Account link above. Current site users: Sign in to your account and click User Account to select Subscription Services.
  • Countries: documents, court cases, conference reports, news, and other items related to each of the world's countries.
  • International Organizations: documents produced by major governmental, inter-governmental, and non-governmental organizations. 
  • Topics: documents in our database organized by topics related to freedom of religion or belief.
The site is a work in continuous progress, and we welcome your input. Feel free to Give Feedback using the link on the top right of this page. We look forward to hearing from you.
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21 May 2015. The Importance of Application of the Freedom of Conscience in a Democratic Society, Trnava Faculty, Department for legal issues of religious freedom (Trnava University, Slovakia)
20-22 May 2015. Conference Religion and development: making better policy to make a bigger difference in Africa, Wilton Park sponored conference (Cape Town, South Africa)
21-23 May 2015.  5th Annual Colloquium of the Latin American Consortium for Religious Liberty, "Advances and Setbacks in the Legal Protection of Religious Liberty" (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City)
21-24 June 2015. Oxford Conference"Magna Carta and Freedom of Religion or Belief" (Oxford, UK) REGISTRATION FORM  
6-8 July 2015.  Religious Freedom Annual Review, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
26 July-9 August 2015. Balkan Summer School on Religion and Public Life.
4-7 October 2015. 22nd Annual International Law and Religion Symposium: "Religion, Law, and Social Stability" Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
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Professor Javier Martínez-Torrón of the Law Faculty of Complutense University in Madrid, and Professor W. Cole Durham, Jr., Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University, General Reporters for the topic "Religion and the Secular State" for The 18th Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, along with Donlu Thayer, project editor, are pleased to announce the publication in final form of the National Reports prepared on this topic.
To order the book, contact the publisher at libder@ucm.es. Full ordering information here.
The Congress is the once-every-four-years meeting of the experts of the International Academy of Comparative Law. The 18th Congress, held in Washington, DC, in July 2010, was the first Congress of... more
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The International Center for Law and Religion Studies is pleased to announce the topic for the 22nd Annual International Law and Religion Symposium, to be held October 4-7 at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.  Invited international experts in law and religion will speak to the topic "Religion, Law, and Social Stability."  Sub-themes will be "Religious Exemptions from Generally Applicable Laws"; "Religion, the Rule of Law, and Social Stability"; and "Religion and Violence."
Symposium sessions are open to the public, free of charge, space permitting.... more
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo's Constitution of 2005 with Amendments through 2011, submitted by Dr. Joseph Yav
  • Case from South Africa: Ecclesia De Lange v The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (726/13) [2014] ZASCA 151 (29 September 2014)
  • Country Profiles for:  Aruba, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Georgia, Moldova, Mongolia, Paraguay, as well as the European Union. the Council of Europe, the United Nations Human Rights Committee
  • COMING SOON:  New, Religlaw site upgrade, including new, comprehensive CHINA site

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