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    • Israel’s Death Penalty Law: “Jewish and Democratic”?
    • The EUCJ Ruling in Katholische Schwangerschaftsberatung v. JB and Its Impact on Ecclesiastical Labor Law in Germany
    • Women and Church Governance: What Pope Francis’s Reform Changed—and What it Left Open
    • Voicing Sharp Religious Opposition to the War in Iran: A Case Study from the Roman Catholic Community
    • Preserving Religious Cultural Heritage: Invoking Perspectives on Human Dignity and the Virtues of Religious Freedom
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    • Armenia’s State-Church Relations: Not Much Room for Optimism
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    • Marking the 10th Anniversary of the Yazidi Genocide
    • Infinite, Finite, and Definite Dignity: Reflections on the Catholic Church’s Dignitas Infinita
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    • Michalyn Steele on Why the Progeny of Bowen v. Roy Changed Her View of the Original 1986 Case
    • Two Words: Why Frank Ravitch No Longer Supports the Overturning of Employment Division v. Smith
    • Brett G. Scharffs on the Evolution of His Thinking About Refah Partisi v. Turkey
    • Illiberal Democracies and Religion: Interview with Renáta Uitz
    • Measuring Religious Freedom Globally: Interview with Jonathan Fox
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Symposium 2019: Recordings of all Keynote Speeches and Plenary Sessions

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Dmytro Vovk, Director, Center for the Rule of Law and Religion Studies, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

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Jane Wise, Associate Director, International Center  for Law and Religion Studies

Donlu Thayer (blog originator), Senior Fellow, International Center for Law and Religion Studies

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