Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues (ePub)

W. Cole Durham, Jr. is the director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies and the Susa Young Gates University Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Internationally respected for his expertise in law and religion, Professor Durham has received multiple honours, including appointment as co-chair of the OSCE Advisory Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief, and service as vice president of the International Academy for Freedom of Religion and Belief. He was also the recipient of the Freedom Center's International First Freedom Award in 2009 (whose previous recipients include Tony Blair and Vaclav Havel). A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Professor Durham has been heavily involved in comparative constitutional law and church-state relations throughout his career. He has published widely on comparative law, currently serves as the chair of both the Comparative Law Section and the Law and Religion Section of the American Association of Law Schools, and is a member of several U.S. and international advisory boards dealing with religious freedom and church-state relations. Rik Torfs is a member of the Belgian Senate and a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Canon Law. He has also been a visiting professor at both the University of Strasbourg in France and the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. In 2009 he became a member of the Commission for Intercultural Dialogue (Assises de l'Interculturalité) of the Belgian government. Professor Torfs is the author of nearly 350 articles and numerous books dealing with canon law, law, and Church and State relationships. He is also the editor of the European Journal for Church and State Research, is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Consortium for State-Church Research, and is a newspaper columnist and host of his own television program. David Kirkham, Ph.D.,

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