Dia Anagnostou
is Assistant Professor of Politics at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens and since 2004 Senior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP. Taking a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach, her research interests lie in the intersection between comparative politics and international governance, as well as between law and politics. Her articles have appeared in the European Journal of International Law, International Human Rights Journal, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, among others. She has co-edited the book The European Court of Human Rights and the Rights of Marginalised Individuals and Minorities in National Context (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009).
Katherine Barnes
is a Barrister at 39 Essex Chambers, London. She specialises in public law and human rights, with particular expertise in the spheres of education, community care and planning. She is especially interested in cases which involve questions of religious liberty. She appeared at the recent case study concerning sexual abuse of children at residential Catholic schools as part of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (2017). She has also worked on litigation arising from the “Trojan Horse” scandal, which concerned the alleged promotion of extremist religious views in Birmingham schools (2016).
Stephanie E. Berry
is Co-Director of the Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research and Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights Law, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. Her research primarily focuses on the right to freedom of religion or belief and minority rights under European and international human rights frameworks. She has published in leading journals including Legal Studies and the Human Rights Law Review. She also acted as a legal adviser on the case of S.A.S. v. France in the European Court of Human Rights and has been consulted by international organisations and non-governmental organisations in her fields of expertise.
Sophie van Bijsterveld
is Professor of Religion, Law and Society at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. She is a founding editor of the Dutch Journal of Religion, Law and Policy. Her books include The Empty Throne: Democracy and the Rule of Law in Transition (Boom Lemma, 2002) and State and Religion: Re-assessing a Mutual Relationship (Eleven Publishing, 2018). Since June 2007 she has been a
Eva Brems
is Professor of Human Rights Law at Ghent University (Belgium), where she founded the Human Rights Centre, and the blog Strasbourg Observers. She publishes on a wide range of topics in the field of human rights law. On the topic of religious freedom, her publications include The Experiences of Face Veil Wearers in Europe and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and ‘Head-Covering Bans in Belgian Courtrooms and Beyond: Headscarf Persecution and the Complicity of Supranational Courts’ (Human Rights Quarterly, 2017, with C. Heri, S. Ouald Chaib and L. Verdonck).
Agnès Callamard
is Director of the Global Freedom of Expression Project at Columbia University, an initiative seeking to advance understanding of the international and national norms and institutions that define and protect freedom of expression and information. She is also the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions. She has published extensively on human rights, women’s rights, freedom of expression, and refugee movements and the methodology of human rights investigation. She has authored or edited volumes on political killings, excessive use of force, and torture as well as on sexual violence in armed conflicts.
Ioana Cismas
is Senior Lecturer at York Law School and the Centre for Applied Human Rights. She previously taught at Stirling Law School, was scholar-in-residence at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law and research fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. She has provided legal and policy advice to the UN Special Rapporteur on transitional justice and the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. Her book Religious Actors and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2014) explores the rights and obligations of religious states and non-state entities under international law.
Carolyn Evans
is Vice-Chancellor of Griffith University. She has authored, among other works, Freedom of Religion under the European Convention on Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2001) and Legal Protection of Religious Freedom in Australia (Federation Press, 2012). She is co-editor of Religion and International Law
Sir Malcolm Evanskcmg
is Professor of Public International Law, Bristol University. His work focuses on torture prevention and the protection of religious liberty. He is a member, and Chair, of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture. He is General Editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and Co-Editor in Chief of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. Published works include: Religious Liberty and International Law in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Manual on the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Public Areas (Council of Europe/Brill, 2009) and The Changing Nature of Religious Rights under International Law (ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Effie Fokas
is Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Principal Investigator of an ERC-funded project on the European Court of Human Rights religion-related case law (Grassrootsmobilise), and Research Associate of the LSE Hellenic Observatory. She is co-editor (with Aziz Al-Azmeh) of Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity and Influence, and co-author (with Peter Berger and Grace Davie) of Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations.
T. Jeremy Gunn
is University Professor of Law and Political Science at the International University of Rabat (Morocco). His academic work focuses on the interrelationship among religion, politics, and law. Among his publications are ‘Islam and the Concept of the Separation of Religion and the State’ (2016); ‘Secularism, the Secular, and Secularization’ in Trends of Secularism in a Pluralistic World (2013), Spiritual Weapons: The Cold War and the Forging of an American National Religion (2009); ‘Deconstructing Proportionality in Limitations Analysis’ (2005); ‘The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of “Religion” in International Law’ (2003); and ‘Adjudicating Rights of Conscience Under the European Convention on Human Rights’ in Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives (1996).
Mark Hillqc
holds associate chairs at Cardiff University, the University of Pretoria, King’s College London, and Notre Dame University, Sydney. He is Vice-President of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, and a former
Javier Martínez-Torrón
is Professor of Law at Complutense University (Madrid, Spain). His academic work focuses on the legal analysis of freedom of religion or belief from a comparative and international perspective. His writings, published in 23 countries and in 13 languages, include 22 books as author, co-author or editor, and some 120 essays in legal periodicals or collective volumes. Among his books are Religion and Law in Spain (2nd ed., 2018), Religion and the Secular State (with W. Cole Durham, 2015), and Conflictos entre conciencia y ley (with Rafael Navarro-Valls, 2nd ed., 2012). He is founder and co-editor of Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado (2003).
Dominic McGoldrick
is Professor of International Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham. He teaches and researches on UK, European and international human rights. He has been a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar and a Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Law School. His publications include The Human Rights Committee (Oxford University Press, 1994), International Relations Law of the European Union (Longman, 1997), From 9–11 to the Iraq War 2003 (Hart, 2004) and Human Rights and Religion – The Islamic Headscarf Debate in Europe (Hart, 2006). He was a major contributor to and co-editor of The Permanent International Criminal Court (Hart, 2004). Recent articles have concerned sexual orientation discrimination, religious symbols, and the margin of appreciation.
Saïla Ouald-Chaib
is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University and coordinator of its Human Rights Law clinic. She obtained a PhD degree in law at Ghent University (2015). Her PhD dissertation is entitled ‘Belief in Justice. Towards more inclusivity in and through the freedom of religion case law of the European Court of Human Rights’. She is also a co-founder of the international blog www.strasbourgobserers.com. Her research interests include
Peter Petkoff
is Senior Law Lecturer at the Brunel Law School. He is also Director of the Religion, Law and International Relations Programme, a collaborative international research network at Regent’s Park College, Oxford, and Managing Editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion.
Brett G. Scharffs
is Rex E. Lee Chair and Professor of Law at Brigham Young University Law School and the Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies. He has written more than 100 articles and book chapters, and has made over 300 scholarly presentations in 30 countries. The second edition of his casebook, Law and Religion: National, International and Comparative Perspectives, published by Aspen Press (co-authored with his BYU Law School colleague W. Cole Durham, Jr.), was published in 2019 and has been translated into Chinese and Vietnamese, and is being translated into Turkish, Arabic, Burmese, Bahasa Indonesia, Russian, Spanish, Greek and Hebrew. Together with his colleague Elizabeth Clark, he is author of Religion and Law in the United States, part of a Wolters Kluwer monograph series, published in 2016.
Stijn Smet
is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at Hasselt University. He is the author of Resolving Conflicts between Human Rights: The Judge’s Dilemma (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor of When Human Rights Clash at the European Court of Human Rights: Conflict or Harmony? (Oxford University Press, 2017). He has published on issues of law and religion in, among others, Religion & Human Rights and Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte.
Jeroen Temperman
is Professor of International Law and Religion at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Religion & Human Rights and a member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief. He has authored, among other books, Religious Hatred and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and State-Religion Relationships and Human Rights Law (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010) and edited Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and The Lautsi Papers (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012).
Renáta Uitz
is Director of the Comparative Constitutional Law program at the Central European University. She is co-author (with András Sajó) of The Constitution of Freedom: An Introduction to Legal Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2017). She is also the author of Constitutions, Courts and History (CEU Press, 2004) and Freedom of Religion in European Constitutional and International Case Law (2007). She edited Arguments that Work: Strategies, Contexts and Limits in Constitutional Law (Eleven, 2013); Religion in the Public Square: Perspectives on Secularism (Eleven, 2014); Freedom and Its Enemies: The Tragedy of Liberty (Eleven, 2015).
Lucy Vickers
is Professor of Law at Oxford Brookes University. Her main research area is the protection of human rights within the workplace and aspects of equality law. Among other publications, she has authored Freedom of Speech and Employment (Oxford University Press, 2002), Religious Freedom, Religious Discrimination and the Workplace (Hart Publishing, 2016), and a report for the European Commission entitled Religion and Belief Discrimination in Employment – The eu Law (2007). She is the uk expert on non-discrimination for the European Equality Law Network.