Jagiellonian University’s Centre for Law and Religious Freedom, in collaboration with the Religious Freedom Clinic at Harvard Law School, hosted a conference focused on the emerging challenges in religious freedom. This gathering brought together judges, scholars, advocates, and students from around the globe to engage in meaningful discussions about the state of religious freedom worldwide.
On June 4 & 5, 2024 was held a two-day conference, " New Frontiers and Emerging Challenges in Religious Liberty" that included presentations by faculty from University of Florence, Sciences Po Paris, University of Oxford, Harvard Law School, Notre Dame Law School, and NYU School of Law, among others.
A research group meeting was co-sponsored by the Department of Roman Law at the Jagiellonian University and the Harvard Religious Freedom Clinic.
The meeting took place in the main Aula auditorium of the Jagiellonian University Collegium Novum in Kraków.
The session was divided into four panels, which dealt with the perspectives of legal scholars, advocates, and judges on the most recent challenges to Religious Liberty and their main actors around the world.
The first day of the meeting was opened by the Deputy Dean of the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Law and Administration, Prof. Bartosz Brożek, and the second day was opened by the Dean of the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Law and Administration, Jerzy Pisuliński.
Legal scholars present at the meeting were Pierre-Hugues Barre of Sciences Po Paris, Edward David of the University of Oxford, Cole Durham of Brigham Young University and ICLRS, Michał Kowalski, Grzegorz Blicharz, and Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier of the Jagiellonian University, Ruth Okediji of Harvard Law School, Patrick E. Reidy of Notre Dame Law School, Andrea Simoncini of the University of Florence, and Joseph H.H. Weiler of NYU School of Law.
Judges in the conference were Jeroen Chorus of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal & Leiden University, Andrew Oldham, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque of of the European Court of Human Rights and the Catholic University of Portugal Lisbon School of Law, and practitioners and advocates attending as speaker were Yisca Harani of the Religious Freedom Data Center, Erin Murphy of Clement & Murphy PLLC, Monika Rejdak of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS), and Gerhard Robbers of the University of Trier.
Each panel ended with a discussion, which more than once also included representatives of the academic community present at the conference: academics, doctoral candidates and law students.
