August
21-23, 2013
ICLARS Program Draft
Wednesday August 21, 2013
Hilton Garden Inn
Richmond, Virginia
Young
Scholar Sessions
2-2:50
p.m.
Chair: José
Antonio Calvi, Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientiae, Peru
Juan Manuel
Gutierrez Bartol, Universidad de Montevideo,
Uruguay, “Indagaciones Facticas y Juridicas Sobre las Contriciones Economicas
al Culto”
Juan Martin
Vives, Universidad Adventista del Plata, Argentina,
“New Wine into Old Wineskins: About
Argentina's Civil Code Reformation and the Legal Personality of Minority
Religions”
Rodrigo
Vitorino Souza Alves, Universidad Federal de
Uberlandia, “Religion and Anti-Discrimination Norms in Brazil”
3-3:50
p.m.
Chair: Ofrit
Liviatan, Harvard University, USA (invited)
James Nelson, Columbia Law School, USA, “Conscience, Incorporated”
Free Williams, University of Virginia, USA, “The Definition of Religion in
American Courts: Religious Minorities
and Conformist Pressures”
Megan
Pearson, London School of Economics, UK, “Of Gods
and Gays: Proportionality and Sexual
Orientation Discrimination”
4-4:50
p.m.
Chair: Balazs Schanda, Peter Pazmany Catholic
University, Hungary (invited)
Itai Apter, Department for International Agreements and International
Litigation, Ministry of Justice, Israel, “Freedom of Religion
International: Finding Pathways to
Enforce Freedom of Religion Protections by the International Community”
Rebeca
Vazquez Gomez, University of La Coruna, Spain, “The
Ban of Burqa: A Security Issue: The Example of Italy”
Nathan C.
Walker, Harvard Divinity School, “Unveiling
Freedom: Bans on Teachers’ Religious Garb”
Maria Jose
Valero Estarellas, Centro Universitario Villanueva,
Complutense University Spain, “By the Sweat of Your Face You Shall Eat Bread'. State Neutrality, Religion, and the Workplace
in the Recent Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights”
5-6:30 p.m. Dinner
6:30 p.m. Conference
Keynote
Heiner
Bielefeldt, U.N. Special Rapporteur for Freedom of
Religion or Belief
Thursday August 22, 2013
The College of William &
Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia
9-10:30
a.m. Plenary Session
Religious
Pluralism and Treatment of Religious Minorities
Chair: Tahir
Mahmood, Founder and Chairman, Amity University Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
New Delhi, India
Angela Banks, Associate Professor, William and Mary Law School, USA
Asher Maoz, Dean, Peres Academic Center Law School, Israel
Ayelet
Shachar, Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and
Multiculturalism, and Professor of Law, Political Science, and Global Affairs,
University of Toronto, Canada (invited)
John Witte,
Jr., Director of the Center for the Study of Law
and Religion, Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Family
Foundation Distinguished Professor, Emory University, USA
10:30-11 a.m. Break
11-12
a.m. Parallel Sessions
Session
1 – Religious Pluralism and Treatment of Religious Minorities
Chair: Iván C. Ibán, Complutense University
of Madrid, Spain (invited)
Supriyanto
Abdi, University of Melbourne, Australia,
“Negotiating State Neutrality and Religious Freedom in Muslim-Majority
Countries: The Case of
Liberal-Progressive Islam in Indonesia”
Michael
A.Helfand, Pepperdine University School of Law,
USA, “Between Law and Religion:
Procedural Challenges to Religious Arbitration Awards”
Ofrit
Liviantan, Weatherband Center for International
Affairs, Harvard University, USA, “The Limits of Equality-Based Legislation as
Vehicle of Pluralism: Lessons from
Northern Ireland”
Session
2 – Religious Pluralism and Treatment of Religious Minorities
Chair: Iain Benson, University of the Free
State- Bloemfontein, South Africa (invited)
Enyinna
Nwauche, Department of Law, University of Botswana,
“Minority Religious Organisations and Registration in Africa: A Constitutional Inquiry”
Mary Anne
Plaatjies-Van Huffel, Stellenbosch University,
South Africa, “The Quest to Religious Pluralism and Treatment of Religious
Minorities in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
Norberto
Padilla, Catholic University of Argentina,“The
Argentine experience on religious pluralism”
Octavio Lo
Prete, Argentinian Council for Religious Liberty,
“Treatment of Minority Religions in Argentina”
Session
3 – Religious Pluralism and Treatment of Religious Minorities
Chair: María
Concepción Medina González, Ministry of Education, Mexico
Elena
Miroshnikova, Leo Tolstoy State Pedagogical
University, Tula, Russia, “Religious Pluralism and Treatment of Religious
Minorities in Religious Education”
H.-M.Th.D.
ten Napel, Leiden
Law School, Institute for Public Law, Section of Constitutional and
Administrative Law, The Netherlands, “Religious Pluralism, Eastern Ethnical
Monism and Western ‘Civic Totalism’”
Nicolae V.
Dura, “Ovidius” University of Constanta, Romania
12- 1
p.m. Lunch
1-2:30
p.m. Plenary Session
Hate
Speech, Hate Crimes, and Religious Minorities
Chair: Sophie van Bijsterveld, Tilburg University, the
Netherlands
Agnès
Callamard, Executive Director, Article 19
Toby Mendel, Executive Director, Centre for Law and Democracy, Canada
Mohammed
Saeed Eltayeb, Bureau of Human Rights, Qatari
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Michael
O’Flaherty, Professor of Human Rights Law and
Co-director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of
Ireland, Galway; Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights
Commission
Robert C.
Post, Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of
Law, Yale Law School, USA
Jeroen
Temperman, Assistant Professor of Public International
law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2:30-3
p.m. Break
3-4
p.m. Parallel Sessions
Session
1 – Religious Symbols, Public Reason, and the State
Chair: Mark Movsesian, Center for Law and
Religion. St. John’s University, USA (invited)
Perry Dane, Rutgers University School of Law, USA, “Endorsement, Legal Reason,
and the Misguided Quest for Reasonableness”
Javier
Martinez-Torron, Complutense University School of
Law, Spain, “Institutional Religious Symbols, State Neutrality and Protection
of Minorities”
Session
2 – Hate speech, hate crimes and religious minorities
H. Victor
Conde, California Baptist University, USA, “Rights
of Religious Institutions and Their Ministers Within the Ambit of Defamation of
Religion in the International Human Rights Arena Particularly the UN Human
Rights Council”
Session
3 –Religious Pluralism
Iain Benson, University of the Free State- Bloemfontein, South Africa, “The
Search for Pluralism in the Writings of Said Nursi and in the Roman Catholic
Tradition
Ian Leigh, University of Durham, UK, “Multiculturalism, Religious Law and
'the Human Rights Proviso'”
Ed Gaffney, Valparaiso University School of Law, USA, “’Full and Free Exercise
of Religion’:
James Madison on Established Religion from
the Ancient to the Modern World”
4:30-5:30 Walking Tour of Historical Williamsburg
Friday, August 23, 2013
The University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
9-10:30
a.m. Plenary Session
Religion
and Gender: Same-Sex Marriage
Chair: Silvio
Ferrari, Professor of Law and Religion, University of Milan
Rex Ahdar,
Professor of Law, University of Otago, New Zealand
Ursula Basset, Professor of Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina
Douglas Laycock, Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law, Horace W.
Goldsmith Research Professor of Law, Professor of Religious Studies, University
of Virginia, USA
Renata Uitz,
Professor of Comparative Constiutional Law, Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law Program, Central
European University, Hungary
Kent Greenawalt, University Professor, Columbia University Law School, USA
10:30-11:00
a.m. Break
11:00-12:00 Parallel Sessions
Session 1 - Religion and Gender
Moderator: Merilin Kiviorg, Wolfson College,
University of Oxford, UK
Pieter
Coertzen, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch
University, South Africa, “Marriage Under the SA Constitution and Religious
Legal Systems”
Olabisi Aina, “Gender, Religion, Culture and Law: Emerging Issues in African
Democratic Governance”
Joseph E. David, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of
Oxford, UK, “Familial Imagination in Law and Religion”
Carmen
Asiaín Pereira, Faculty of Law, University of
Montevideo, Uruguay
Session 2 – Religion and Gender: The U.S. Health
and Human Services Contraceptive Mandate Controversy
Chair: Zachary Calo, Valpairaiso
University School of Law, USA (invited)
Helen Alvaré, George Mason School of Law, USA
Fred Gedicks, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, USA
Session 3 – Is Religion Special?
Barry Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities, “Does Religion Merit
Special Protection in the Law? (Within the Canadian Legal Context)”
Micah
Schwartzman, University of Virginia School of Law,
USA, “Religion as a Legal Prosy?”
Session 4 – Religious Believers Outside Religious
Denominations
Chair: Ed Gaffney, Valparaiso University School of Law,
USA (invited)
Mark Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion. St. John’s University, USA, “Psychic
Sophie and the Rise of the Nones”
Bruce
Ledewitz, Professor of Law, Duqesne University,
USA, The Vietnam Draft Cases and the Pro-Religion Equality Project”
12-
1 p.m. Lunch
1-2:30
p.m. Plenary Session
Religion
and Anti-Discrimination Norms
Chair: Gerhard
Robbers, Director, Institute for European Constitutional Law and Director,
Institute for Legal Policy, University of Trier Germany
Katayoun
Alidadi, doctoral researcher, Catholic University
of Leuven, Belgium; project researcher in the FP7 Programme RELIGARE ‘Religious
Diversity and Secular Models in Europe- Innovative Approaches to Law and
Policy’
Carmen
Domínguez Hidalgo, Director, Center for the
Family/Professor of Civil Law, Catholic Pontifical University of Chile
Andrew
Koppleman, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and
Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, USA
Lawrence
Sager, Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair,
University of Texas School of Law, USA
Eiichiro
Takahata, Professor of Law, Nihon University, Japan
2:30-3 p.m. Break
3-4
p.m. Parallel Sessions
Session
1 – Religion and Anti-Discrimination Norms
Chair:
Ian Leigh, University of Durham, UK (invited)
Mark Hill, Honorary Professor of Law, Cardiff University, UK, “Religion and
Anti-Discrimination Norms: The Turning of the Tide in Strasbourg and
Luxembourg”
Merilin
Kiviorg, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK,
“Collective Religious Autonomy versus Individual Rights: A Challenge for the ECtHR?”
Augustin
Motilla de la Calle, Universidad Carlos III de
Madrid, Spain, “Discimination Laws in EU: Labour Discrimination in Religious Matters”
Session
2- Religion and Anti-Discrimination Norms
Barak D.
Richman (with Michael Helfand), Duke University
School of Law, USA, “On Religion and Money”
Greg Walsh, School of Law, The University of Notre Dame Australia,
“Anti-Discrimination Legislation and the Appropriate Regulation of the Employment
Decisions of Religious Schools”
Session
3 – Regional Studies
Chair: Juan Navarro Floria, Pontificia
Universidad Católica Buenos Aires, Argentina
Balazs
Schanda, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences,
Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary, “From Equality Towards a Two-Tier
System: Religious Communities Under the
New Hungarian Law on Churches”
Jose Luis Llaquet, “The Novel Catalan Regulation of Cult Centres”
Piotr Stanisz, The John Paul II Catholic
University of Lublin, Poland, “The Status of Religious Organizations in
Poland: Equal Rights and
Differentiation”
Session
4 – Regional Studies
Rene Pahud de
Mortanges, Faculty of Law, University of Fribourg,
Switzerland, “How Swiss Law Deals with Religious Minorities”
Yaron Catane, Legal Counsel, Chief Rabbinate- Hebrew University, Israel, “The
Challenges of Israel's Chief Rabbinate:
Legal, Religious, and Cultural Aspects”
Barbara Ann
Flanagan, Department of Political Science, Central
Washington University, USA, “Religious Freedom in the Land of the Pharaohs”
4:30-5:30
p.m. Tour of Monticello and other
historic sites in Charlottesville
6
p.m. Closing Dinner
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