Grzegorz Blicharz – Director of the CLRF

PhD, Assistant Professor at the Department of Roman Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His work focuses on Roman law in comparative perspective, on comparative freedom of religion and freedom of speech, and especially on the impact of religious freedom on the development of private law and legal doctrine. He has held visiting appointments at the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford (2020) and at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University (2021).

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Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier

Professor of Law and the Head of the Department of Roman Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He also teaches at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. He has an LL.M. from Georgetown University. He is a Catholic priest and an expert on bioethics for the Polish Episcopal Conference as well as a member of the COMECE Legal Affairs Commission. For the past 20 years, he has also lectured and conducted research on U.S. freedom of speech and religion.

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Eric Rassbach

Vice President and Senior Counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty where he has served since 2003, Director of Hugh and Hazel Darling Religious Liberty Clinic and Visiting Professor at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. He has led or been a part of Becket litigation teams in each of Becket's pathbreaking victories at the United States Supreme Court, and has also litigated cases in federal and state courts across the country, and in the European Court of Human Rights.

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Josh McDaniel

Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of Harvard Law School’s Religious Freedom Clinic. While in private practice he litigated commercial and civil rights cases, with particular expertise in First Amendment and religious freedom issues. He received a Daily Journal 2022 California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) award and argued in numerous appellate courts and courts of last resort, including twice before the California Supreme Court.

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Louis-Léon Christians is Professor of Law, Head of the Chair of Law & Religions, Catholic University of Louvain. His research and teaching concern Belgian and European law on freedom of religion, comparative religious laws, including Canon law and Islamic law, as well as the relationship between law, theology and religious studies. He is a regular expert with various Belgian, European and international institutions.

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W. Cole Durham, Jr. is Emeritus Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University, Founding Director of the Law School’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies. He has been heavily involved in comparative constitutional law and church-state relations throughout his career, including appointment as co-chair of the OSCE Advisory Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

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Mary A. Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law, emerita, at Harvard University, and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. She writes in the fields of human rights, comparative law, and political theory. Glendon chaired the U.S. State Department Commission on Unalienable Rights (2019-2020) and served as a member of the Commission on International Religious Freedom (2012-2016), and the U.S. President’s Council on Bioethics (2001-2004).

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Ruth L. Okediji is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, co-Director of the Harvard University Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and Director of the Harvard Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies. A renowned scholar in international intellectual property (IP) law and a foremost authority on the role of intellectual property in social and economic development.

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Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque is Professor of Law at Católica – Lisbon School of Law and has been Judge of the European Court of Human Rights from 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2020. Between 1992 and 2004 he sat on the bench of different courts in Portugal. He teaches publishes widely in fields of Criminal Law and Procedure, Penitentiary Law, Public International Law, International Law of Human Rights and Philosophy of Law.

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Andrea Simoncini is Professor of Constitutional Law and Comparative Constitutional Justice and former Director of the Department of Law at the Florence University. He was Fulbright Distinguished Fellow and visiting professor at the Notre Dame Law School and visiting professor at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He was assistant professor of Professor Ugo De Siervo at the Italian Constitutional Court between 2002 and 2003.

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Joseph H.H. Weiler is Joseph Straus Professor of Law, NYU School of Law, European Union Jean Monnet Chaired Professor and Director of Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice. He also served as President of the European University Institute in Florence. His research focus is on issues of European integration, globalization and democracy and issues concerning religion in the public space.

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