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Religious Freedom and Legal Education: Transatlantic Seminar 2022

Religious Freedom and Legal Education: Transatlantic Seminar 2022

The Transatlantic Seminar on "Religious Freedom in Practice: Comparing Transatlantic Approaches" was held in two sessions: on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 and Friday, November 18, 2022, and brought together faculty from Jagiellonian University, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, and the University of Florence.

On the panel “Religious Freedom in Practice: Comparing Transatlantic Approaches” experts from both sides of the Atlantic discussed the state of religious freedom law in all its forms in Europe and the US, providing insight into each continent's experience with resolving religious freedom cases. The similarities and differences between the legal orders can indicate why religious freedom is a fundamental human right and help find a path forward through the present conflicts.

On the panel “Religious Freedom in Education: A Growing Field” university educators discussed how religious freedom and the study of religious law are incorporated in U.S. and European legal education, including the inclusion of religious freedom topics in law school curricula, programs on religious law and the intersection of religious studies and the law, and the innovative rise of religious freedom legal clinics.