2013 Annual Symposium
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| OPENING SESSION | ||||
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| W. Cole Durham, Jr. Susa Young Gates University Professor of Law and Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University | ||||
| Françoise Tulkens Former Permanent Judge and Vice President, European Court of Human Rights | ||||
| Malcolm Evans Professor of Public International Law, University of Bristol School of Law | ||||
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| FIRST PLENARY SESSION: "Religious and Philosophical Bases of Human Rights" | ||||
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| Brett G. Scharffs Associate Dean for Research and Academic Affairs, Francis R. Kirkham Professor of Law, and Associate Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Yo | ||||
| Zachary R. Calo Associate Professor of Law, Valparaiso University School of Law | ||||
| David Little T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor Emeritus of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict, Harvard Divinity School; Research Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs | ||||
| Asher Maoz Dean, Peres Academic Center Law School | ||||
| Andrew Chin Hock Khoo Co-Chair, Human Rights Council, Bar Council of Malaysia | ||||
| Tore Lindholm Associate Professor, Norwegian Center for Human Rights, University of Oslo | ||||
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| JUDICIAL SESSION: "Judicial Conceptions of Religious Freedom as a Human Right" | ||||
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| Thomas B. Griffith Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit | ||||
| Volodymyr Zagoldnyi Judge, Supreme Court of Ukraine | ||||
| J. Clifford Wallace Chief Judge Emeritus, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | ||||
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| Laos Breakout Session | ||||
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| Bounna PHATHOUMMAVONG Director General, Department of Home Affairs of Vientiane Capital, Lao People’s Democratic Republic | ||||
| Houmphan XAYASITH Staff, Ethnic and Religious Affairs Department, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of Lao People’s Democratic Republic | ||||
| Khamyad Lathsadavong Director of Religious Division, Lao Front for National Construction | ||||
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| Canada and the United Kingdom Breakout Session | ||||
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| David M. Kirkham Senior Fellow for Comparative Law and International Policy, Regional Advisor for the European Union and Council of Europe, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University | ||||
| Don Horrocks Head of Public Affairs, The Evangelical Alliance UK | ||||
| Janet Epp Buckingham Associate Professor of Political Studies and History, Trinity Western University; Director, Laurentian Leadership Centre | ||||
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| Latin America: Scholarship Breakout Session | ||||
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| Marcos González Sánchez Professor of Ecclesiastical Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
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| Juan Martin Vives Secretary of Student Management, Universidad Adventista del Plata |
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| Efrén Chávez Hernández Professor, Legal Research Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) |
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| Victor Jesus Alvarez Medina Director, Administrative Studies Center |
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| SECOND PLENARY SESSION: "Judicial Perspectives on Religion and Human Rights" | ||||
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| J. Clifford Wallace Chief Judge Emeritus, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | ||||
| Samuel Kofi Date-Bah Justice, Supreme Court of the Gambia; Justice, Supreme Court of Ghana | ||||
| Annel M. Silungwe Honorable Chief Justice (Rtd.), Technical Committee on Drafting the Zambian Constitution | ||||
| Eberhard Bertelsmann Judge of the High Court, Gauteng North | ||||
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| Africa Breakout Session | ||||
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| David M. Kirkham Senior Fellow for Comparative Law and International Policy, Regional Advisor for the European Union and Council of Europe, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University | ||||
| Shiferaw Teklemariam Minister of Federal Affairs | ||||
| Yao Kouadio Chief of Staff, Ministry of the Interior | ||||
| René Ferguson Principal Tutor, University of the Witwatersrand | ||||
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| Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon Breakout Session | ||||
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| Mohamed A. Abdelaal Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Alexandria University Faculty of Law | ||||
| Erdogan Arslan Vice President, Turkey Yozgat City Platform | ||||
| Michel André Touma Assistant Editor-in-Chief, L'Orient-Le Jour | ||||
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| Latin America: Political Leaders Breakout Session | ||||
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| Gary B. Doxey Associate Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University | ||||
| Alejandro Ordoñez Maldonado Attorney General of the Republic of Colombia |
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| Mario Alfredo Pinel Rosales Diputado Congreso Nacional de la Republica de Honduras, Congreso Nacional de la Republica de Honduras | ||||
| Paola Carmona Legal Counsel, Foundation of the Parliamentary Group for the National Action Party of the House of Representatives |
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| María Patricia Ariza-Velasco Fourth Deputy Attorney before the Council of State, Attorney General's Office of the Republic of Colombia | ||||
| José Ricardo López Pescador Former Congressman; Director of the National Trust Fund for Communal Land (FIFONAFE), Government of Mexico | ||||
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| THIRD PLENARY SESSION: "Tensions and Synergies between Religious and Other Human Rights" | ||||
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| Elizabeth A. Clark Associate Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University | ||||
| Renáta Uitz Head of the Department of Legal Studies and Chair of the Comparative Constitutional Law Program, Central European University | ||||
| Mark Hill QC Honorary Professor, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University, United Kingdom; Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa | ||||
| Ian Linden Director of Policy, Tony Blair Faith Foundation | ||||
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| JUDICIAL SESSION: "How Do Courts Deal with Tensions between Religious and Other Human Rights?" | ||||
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| Jay S. Bybee Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | ||||
| Anthony Gill Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Washington | ||||
| Milton Ray Guevara President, Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic |
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| Rana R. Arna Magistrate Court Judge, Judicial Council, Madaba Court of First Instance, Jordan | ||||
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| Malaysia Breakout Session | ||||
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| Hermen Shastri General Secretary, Council of Inter-Religious Harmony | ||||
| Andrew Chin Hock Khoo Co-Chair, Human Rights Council, Bar Council of Malaysia | ||||
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| Italy Breakout Session | ||||
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| Mark Choate Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University | ||||
| Claudio Mario Betti Assistant to the President, Community of Sant'Egidio | ||||
| Anna Nardini Director General, Presidency of the Council of Ministers | ||||
| Andrea Pin Senior Lecturer in Comparative Law, University of Padua | ||||
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| Latin America: Government Leaders Breakout Session | ||||
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| Gonzalo Guerrero Chief of Staff to the Undersecretary General of the Presidency and Director, Chile Religious Affairs Office |
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| Maria Adrianzen Olivos Director of Religous Affairs, Ministry of Justice |
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| Ximena Guzmán Director of the Department of Entry Processing, National Directorate of Immigration, Argentina |
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| Eliseo Rosales Avalos Director General, Federal Heritage Administration (INDAABIN) |
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| Russia and Macedonia Breakout Session | ||||
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| Yakov Krotov Priest, Orthodox Church | ||||
| Zorica Angelovska-Kovasevikj Sector Head for Relations with Religious Communities and Groups and Protocol, State Commission for Relations with Religious Communities and Groups | ||||
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| Japan and Nepal Breakout Session | ||||
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| Brett G. Scharffs Associate Dean for Research and Academic Affairs, Francis R. Kirkham Professor of Law, and Associate Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Yo | ||||
| Makoto Ida Professor, Keio University Law School | ||||
| Rakesh Hamal Executive Director, GP Koirala Foundation for Democracy, Peace & Development; Chairman: National Rehabilitation Society for the Disabled (NGO) | ||||
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| Spain and Germany Breakout Session | ||||
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| José Ferrer Sánchez Professor, Peace and Conflicts Institute, Granada University |
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| Marco Frenschkowski Professor of Protestant Theology (New Testament Studies), Leipzig University | ||||
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| Latin America: Community Leaders Breakout Session | ||||
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| Elias Szczytnicki Secretary General and Regional Director, Religions for Peace in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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| Edson Rosa Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Director, Seventh-day Adventist Church, South America | ||||
| Miguel Enrique Núñez Durán President, Dominican Association for Religious Freedom |
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| Martin Burt Executive Director, Fundacion Paraguaya |
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| Jáder Freire de Macedo, Jr. Vice President, Law and Religious Liberty Commission of São Paulo | ||||
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| Mongolia Breakout Session | ||||
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| Amarjargal BAT-OCHIR Officer, Coordinating Council for Crime Prevention of Ulaanbaatar, Khural City Government | ||||
| Bukhchuluun ENKHBOLD Secretary, City Council of Ulaanbaatar | ||||
| Myatavdorj Munkhbat Vice-Director, Immigration Agency of Mongolia | ||||
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| Philippines | ||||
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| Quivido T. Oregines Professor, Xavier University | ||||
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| Central and South America Breakout Session | ||||
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| Luis Pedro del Valle H. Partner, Arias & Muñoz | ||||
| Moisés Arata Solís Professor, University of Lima, San Martín de Porres and San Ignacio de Loyola |
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| Clarence Antony Nigel Hughes Attorney at Law, Hughes, Fields & Stoby | ||||
| Yoel Rivas Attorney at Law, Yoel Rivas Martinez Law Firm | ||||
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| FOURTH PLENARY SESSION: Conference Summation | ||||
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| Robert T. Smith Managing Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University | ||||
| W. Cole Durham, Jr. Susa Young Gates University Professor of Law and Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University | ||||
| Anna Nardini Director General, Presidency of the Council of Ministers | ||||
| Rana R. Arna Magistrate Court Judge, Judicial Council, Madaba Court of First Instance, Jordan | ||||
| Shiferaw Teklemariam Minister of Federal Affairs | ||||
| Hermen Shastri General Secretary, Council of Inter-Religious Harmony | ||||
| Volodymyr Zagoldnyi Judge, Supreme Court of Ukraine | ||||
| David Little T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor Emeritus of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict, Harvard Divinity School; Research Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs | ||||
| Rakesh Hamal Executive Director, GP Koirala Foundation for Democracy, Peace & Development; Chairman: National Rehabilitation Society for the Disabled (NGO) | ||||