Lectures from the Restoring Religious Freedom Conference available on YouTube

Lectures from the 2016 Restoring Religious Freedom Conference: Law, Religion, Equality, and Dignity are available on YouTube.

Restoring Religious Freedom Conference: Law, Religion, Equality, and Dignity

Sunday, Nov. 6

A Conversation between Ján Figel’, EU Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief, and W. Cole Durham, Founding Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies

A Century of Genocides: Is Better Accommodation of Conscience and Answer?

Moderator: Mark Goldfeder, Senior Lecturer, Emory University School of Law; Spruill Family Fellow in Law and Religion, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University; Director, Restoring Religious Freedom Project

Sponsored by J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Religious Freedom Project

To view this conversation on YouTube, go here.

Monday, Nov. 7

Opening Remarks: Peter Kmec, Slovak Ambassador to the United States

Slovak EU Presidency in the Context of Law, Religion, Equality and Dignity

International Perspectives on Equality and Dignity

Mark Hill, Honorary Professor, Cardiff Law School, United Kingdom; Avishalom Westreich, Associate Professor, College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan, Israel, Andrea Pin, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Padova, Italy; Sayali Bapat, SJD candidate, Emory University School of Law  

Moderator: Mark Goldfeder

To view the opening remarks and this panel, go here.

Accommodating Fundamental Rights and Religious Freedoms

Robin Wilson, Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law, University of Illinois; Frank Ravitch, Professor of Law and Water H. Stowers Chair of Law and Religion, Michigan State University; John Corvino, Department of Philosophy, Chair, Wayne State University

Moderator: Daniel Frost, Assistant Professor, College of Behavioral, Social, and Health Sciences, Clemson University

To view this panel on YouTube, go here.

Lunch and Keynote Address by Douglas Laycock, Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law, Class of 1963 Research Professor in Honor of Graham C. Lilly, and Peter W. Low Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia

To view this keynote address, go here.

Religious Perspectives on Equality and Dignity

Chaim Saiman, Professor of Law, Villanova University; Rafael Domingo, Francisco de Vitoria Fellow, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University; Bandar Bakhashwin, SJD Candidate, Emory University School of Law; Faizat Badmus-Busari, SJD Candidate, Emory University School of Law

Moderator: Silas Allard, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University

To view this panel, go here.

Alternative Approaches to Accommodation

Michael Helfand, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Director, Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies, Pepperdine University; Michael Broyde, Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law; Steve Collis, Chair, Hollis & Hart Religious Institutions and First Amendment practice group

Moderator: John Witte, Jr., Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law and McDonald Distinguished Professor, Emory University School of Law; Director, Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University

Closing remarks, John Witte, Jr.

To view this panel and closing remarks, go here.

Co-sponsored by the Restoring Religious Freedom Project at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, which is funded by an anonymous gift, and the Fairness for All Initiative at the University of Illinois College of Law, which is made possible by a gift from the Templeton Religion Trust.