Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
Ph.D. in Law, The University of Queensland, Australia, is currently a Humboldt research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL), Germany. He served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Law & Justice, Southeast University, Bangladesh before coming to the MPIL. Jahid’s primary research areas are public international law, and law and religion. He is co-editor of Revisiting the Geneva Conventions: 1949–2019 (Brill, 2020), Law and Religion in the Liberal State (Hart Publishing, 2020), International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability (Routledge, 2017) and Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law (Routledge, 2012).
Ann Black
is an Associate Professor and Reader at the TC Beirne School of law, The University of Queensland and is the Executive Director for Comparative Law, at its Centre of Public, international and Comparative Law. Her research analyses the intersection of law, religion and secularism, and the operation of Sharia in Southeast Asia, especially Brunei Darussalam, and in secular nations including Australia. She has over 100 publications in this field including the books Modern Perspective of Islamic Law (with Nadir Hosen & Hossein Esmaeili) published with Edward Elgar, and Law and Legal Institutions of Asia (edited with Gary Bell) published by Cambridge University Press.
Peter Black
is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, where he is the Chair the Faculty of Business and Law’s Equity Committee and was previously the Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) for the then Faculty of Law. He teaches and researches in media law and Australian Constitutional law. Peter studied Arts, with a major in Media Studies, and an LLB (Hons 1A) at the University of Queensland, graduating as a University Medallist. After working as an Associate for Justice Davies of the Court of Appeal, Queensland, he lectured at the University of Carlos III, Madrid, before completing an LLM at Columbia University, New York.
Rossella Bottoni
wrote her PhD dissertation on The origins of secularism in Turkey (1839–1938). She is currently Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Trento, where she teaches Law and Religion, Comparative Ecclesiastical Law
Helena van Coller
is an Associate Professor and Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Law, Rhodes University, South Africa. Her research interests lie in Public Law, with a particular interest in aspects of Law and Religion. She is a Board member of the African Consortium of Law and Religion Scholars (ACLARS) and a founding member of the SA Council for the Protection and Promotion of Religious Rights and Freedoms Her book on Regulating Religion: State Governance of Religious Institutions in South Africa was published in 2020 as part of the Routledge ICLARS Series on Law and Religion.
Helen Hall
is an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham Trent and is the Associate Director of the Centre for Rights and Justice. She is a qualified solicitor and Anglican priest. Her research is in the fields of Law and Religion, Tort, Family and Public Law, with a particular interest in law and exorcism/deliverance ministry and the rights and freedoms of children in relation to religion. She recently co-authored with Javier García Oliva Religion, Law and the Constitution: Balancing Beliefs in Britain (Routledge: 2018).
Erica Howard
is Professor of Law at Middlesex University, London. She has conducted extensive research on freedom of religion, freedom of expression and religious and other forms of discrimination. The second edition of her book: ‘Law and the wearing of religious clothing in Europe’ was published in 2020. Erica has worked with the British Equality and Human Rights Commission on religion and belief issues. She has written reports for the European Parliament Research Service and for the European Commission (the latter on: ‘The wearing of religious clothing and symbols in employment’).
Darryn Jensen
is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University and a Fellow of the Australian Centre for Private Law, The University of Queensland. He holds the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland
Javier García Oliva
studied Law at the University of Cádiz, where he obtained his first degree, LLM and PhD (cum laude and European distinction). He lectured at the Universities of Cádiz, Cardiff and Bangor before moving in 2011 to the University of Manchester, where he became a Senior Lecturer, and then a Professor of Law in 2021. Javier is also a Lecturer in Spanish Law at the University of Oxford and a Teaching Fellow at University College London. He is the Membership Secretary of the UK Constitutional Law Association and co-author of Religion, Law and the Constitution: Balancing Beliefs in Britain (Routledge: 2018).
Russell L. Weaver
graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1978. Professor Weaver began teaching at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in 1982, and holds the rank of Professor of Law and Distinguished University scholar. He inter alia teaches the First Amendment, and Constitutional Law. Professor Weaver has been asked to speak at law schools and conferences around the world. He is a prolific author who has written hundreds of books and articles over the last 38 years. His publication includes Understanding the First Amendment (7th ed. Carolina Academic Press, 2020).
Paul Weller
holds an MA (Theology), University of Oxford; MPhil (Social and Pastoral Theology), University of Manchester; PhD (Religious Studies), University of Leeds; and DLitt (by published works), University of Derby. He is Emeritus Professor, University of Derby; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow in Religion and Society, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, where he is Associate Member of the University’s Faculty of Theology and Religion; and Visiting Professor in the Research Institute for Peace, Security and Social Justice, Coventry University. Among many publications, he is author of Time for a Change: Reconfiguring Religion, State and Society, T & T Clark, 2005.