About this project

The Restoring Religious Freedom Project launched in 2015 to give students hands-on experience while providing accessible, nonpartisan information and opening up new opportunities for dialogue. Made possible by an anonymous $1 million gift, this four-year project provides students with internships and externships as well as the opportunity to work on amicus briefs and religious freedom cases. Through conferences and lectures, the project convenes scholars and students from around the world to share research in this growing field.

Director:
Mark Goldfeder

Dates:
2015-2019

Students join Mark Goldfeder and Sarah Shalf at the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

Emory lawyers win religious freedom appeals court ruling

Shahar Lifshitz, Dean of Bar-Ilan University School of Law and Senior Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute gave the 2018 Restoring Religious Freedom Lecture

Durham, Goldfeder, and Figel opened the conference with a conversation on genocide.

Lectures from the Restoring Religious Freedom Conference available on YouTube

Pete Wosnic (JD/MTS 2017), Anton Sorkin (SJD), Ashley Barnett (LLM), Kurtis Anderson (JD 3L), and Patric Rako (LLM 2016) presented papers. Amin Sadri (LLM) had his paper accepted, but he could not attend the conference.

CSLR students present papers at international conference

As with all CSLR projects, the Restoring Religious Freedom Project represents the work and the viewpoints of participating scholars and students. It does not represent the viewpoint of CSLR.