Dicky Sofjan, PhD is a core doctoral faculty at ICRS, where he teaches courses on religion and contemporary issues at the PhD level. ICRS is a consortium that spans three universities (Universitas Gadjah Mada, State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga, and Duta Wacana Christian University) and offers an integrative PhD program on inter-religious studies. Dr. Sofjan served as the Principal Investigator for a three-year research project on “Religion, Public Policy and Social Transformation in Southeast Asia” involving nine countries, sponsored by Henry Luce Foundation. He is a co-convener and original signatory to the Declaration on Human Dignity. Dr. Sofjan has been a member of the Educational Exchange Committee (EEC) since 2011 for the American-Indonesian Exchange Foundation (Aminef), which manages the Fulbright program in Indonesia. He was the Regional Project Manager for The Nippon Foundation’s Asian Public Intellectuals (API) Program (2008-2013), participated in the European Union Visitors’ Program (EUVP) and Erasmus+ (2016) and Carnegie Council’s Pacific Fellow for Ethics in Global Affairs (2017-2018).
Brett G. Scharffs is Rex E. Lee Chair and Professor of Law and Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University Law School. He received a BSBA in international business and an MA in philosophy at Georgetown University and, as a Rhodes Scholar, earned a BPhil in philosophy at Oxford. He received his JD from Yale Law School, where he was senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He is a recurring visiting professor at Central European University in Budapest and at the University of Adelaide Law School. He has for several years helped organize certificate training programs in religion and the rule of law in China and in Vietnam and has taught and helped organize programs at several Indonesian universities on sharia and human rights. Author of more than 100 articles and book chapters, he has made more than 300 scholarly presentations in 30 countries. His casebook, Law and Religion: National, International and Comparative Perspectives (with Cole Durham), has been translated into Chinese and Vietnamese, with Turkish, Burmese, and Arabic in process. He is author with Elizabeth Clark of Religion and Law in the USA, a 2016 contribution to Wolters Kluwer’s International Encyclopaedia of Laws.