2005 Annual Symposium
Makoto Oishi

Ana Lalaj – Albania
Director of Institute History, Academy of Sciences in Albania

Halil Lalaj – Albania
Chairman, National Committee of Television and Radio Regulatory

Hranush Kjaratyan – Armenia
Department of National Minorities and Religious Issues, Government of Armenia

Neville Rochow – Australia
Barrister at Law, Howard Zelling Chambers

Paul M. Taylor – Australia
Barrister

Veronica Owens – Bahamas, The
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education

Valery Tsepkalo – Belarus
Advisor to the President of Belarus

Louis-Leon Christians – Belgium
Professor, Universite Catholique de Louvain

Adriaan Overbeeke – Belgium
Professor, Univrsity of Antwerp School of Law, Interuniversity Center for Education Law

Carlos Alberto – Brazil

Mar Samborana – Cambodia
Attorney at Law

Hector Mario Ramirez – Chile
Professor, University of Chile

Sha Mei – China
Assistant Professor, Religion and Art Research Office of the Institute Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Pedro Jose Beirute Rodriguez, Licenciado – Costa Rica
Director of Prodefensa de la Familia

Juan Manuel Guerrero de Jesus – Dominican Republic
Presiding Judge of the First Chamber, National District of the Labor Court of Appeals

Juan Francisco Puello Herrera – Dominican Republic
Dean of the Law School, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena

Arelis Ricourt – Dominican Republic
Judge, Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Appeals Court of La Vega

Ann Nadareishvili – Georgia
Senior Prosecutor, Office of the Prosecutor General of Georgia

Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye – Ghana
Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Coast

John Gray Gadofome Kartey – Ghana
Deputy Director of Immigration, Ministry of the Interior

D.M. Dharmadhikari – India
Justice, Chairperson, M.P. Human Rights Commission, Bhopal

Tahir Mahmood – India
Professor, Amity University Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Takenori Aoyama – Japan
Professor, Nihon University School of Law

Moriyasu Ito – Japan
Priest, Meiji Jingu Shrine

Abdul Karim M. Pharaon – Jordan
Judge, Court of Cassation (Supreme Court)

Bounpheng Saykanya – Lao PDR
Director of Human Rights Division, Department of Treaties and Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Olga Zeile – Latvia
Director, Board of Religious Affairs

Hadi Rached – Lebanon
Attorney at Law

Modesto Martin Jimenez Arango – Mexico
Subdirector de Normas y Sanciones, Secretaria de Gobernacion

Victor Sanchez Zebadua – Mexico
Subsecretary of Religious Affairs, Secretaria de Gobierno en Chiapas

Alexander Turcan – Moldova
Attorney at Law

Avirmed Batsaikhan – Mongolia
Lawyer, General Intelligence Agency of Mongolia

Amal Idrissi – Morocco
Professor, Hassan I University School of Law

Simao Cananeu Chachuaio – Mozambique
Chief of the Central Department, Ministry of Justice

Paul Isaak – Namibia
Professor, Department of Religion and Theology, University of Namibia

Rex Ahdar – New Zealand
Professor, University of Otago School of Law

R. Grant Hammond – New Zealand
Justice, Court of Appeals of New Zealand

Tassaduq Hussain Jillani – Pakistan
Judge, Supreme Court of Pakistan

Jorge del Castillo – Peru
Congressman, Congress of the Republic of Peru

Jose Calvi del Risco – Peru
Attorney at Law

Victor Oscar Garcia Toma – Peru
Justice, Constitutional Court of Peru

Raul Pangalangan – Philippines
Dean, University of the Philippines

Ionut Corduneanu – Romania
Assistant to the State Secretary for Religious Affairs, Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs

Adrian Lemeni – Romania
State Secretary for Religious Affairs, Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs

Ravil Ismagilovich Gainutdin – Russia
Head of the Russian Council of Mufti

Kharis Akhmetovich Salubyanov – Russia
Head of the Administration of the Russian Council of Mufti

Lev Simkin – Russia
Attorney at Law, Latham & Watkins

Alexander Verkhovsky – Russia
Director, SOVA Center for Information and Analysis

Dragana Boljevic – Serbia
Second Instant Judge, District Court of Belgrade

V.R. Nathan – Singapore
Chairman, Hindu Endowment Board

Michaela Moravcikova – Slovakia
Institute for State-Church relations

Marek Smid – Slovakia
International Law Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Cornelius Willem Du Toit – South Africa
Head of the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa

javier Martinez-Torron – Spain
Universidad Compultense Facultad de Derecho

Andreas Thier – Switzerland
University of Zurich School of Law

Noble Khan – Trinidad and Tobago
Secretary, Inter-religious Organization of Trinidad and Tobego

Sinasi Gunduz – Türkiye
Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Sciences, Istanbul University

Gennadiy Druzenko – Ukraine
Legal Counselor, parliament's Committee of European Integration

Jonathan S. Paris – United Kingdom
Advisor to the Chairman, MBI International and Partners

Elizabeth Clark – United States
Associate Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies at BYU

Derek H. Davis – United States
Director, Institute of Church-State Studies, Baylor University

Gary B. Doxey – United States
Managing Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies at BYU

W. Cole Durham, Jr. – United States
Gates University Professor of Law, BYU Law University

Carolyn Evans – United States
Professor, University of Melbourne Law School

Jeremy T. Gunn – United States
ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief

Scott Isaacson – United States
Executive Director, Fellows Program, International Center for Law and Religion Studies at BYU

Mohammad Rafiq Mojaddadi – United States
Mayer of the City of Herat

Rodney Smith – United States
President, Southern Virginia University

J. Clifford Wallace – United States
Chief Judge Emeritus, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

James E. Wood, Jr. – United States
Honorary President of the International Academy for Freedom of Religion and Belief