Tuesday,
June 9th
16:30-17:00 registration and refreshments
17:00 Opening Session
Greetings : Prof. Shahar Lifshitz, Dean, Faculty of
Law
Dr. Haim Shapira, Organizing Committee
Keynote Speaker: Judge Neal Hendel, Supreme Court, Israel
Jewish and Democratic State
– Introductory Reflections
18:00-19:30 Session 1: Theory
Mark
Rosen, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, USA,
Two
Ways of Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Equality and Religious Freedom
Rex Ahdar,
University of Otago, New Zealand,
The Empty Idea of Equality Meets the Unbearable
Fullness of Religion
Wednesday, June 10th
09:00-10:45
Session2 : International Law
Natan Lerner, IDC, Herzliya,
Is there
a Minimum Standard of Protection for Religious Rights?
Silvio Ferrari, University of Milan,
Religion Between
Freedom and Equality
11:15-13:00 Session 3:
Religion and Politics
Robert C. Blitt, University of Tennessee College of Law, USA
The Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab
Spring: Impact of Regime Changes on Institutional Agenda and Politics
Lin Feng, City
University of Hong Kong,
The Tension Between
State, the Communist Party of China (CPC), and Religion in Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region – A Critical Examination of Racial Inequality
1300-1400:
Lunch
14:00-15:45 Session 4: Europe
Elena Falletti, Università Carlo Cattaneo , Castellanza, Italy
The Cultural Impact
of Islamic Mass Immigration on the Italian Legal System
Aleksandra
Gliszczyńska-Grabias,
Poznan Human Rights Centre, Institute of Legal Studies, Polish Academy of
Sciences
Law of “Religious Slaughter” and the Principle
of Equality
16:15-17:15 Session
5: India
Geetanjali
Srikantan, Zvi Meitar post-doc Tel Aviv University,
History and Property Rights in the Ayodhya Dispute: Examining
Paradoxes of Liberalism and Equality in the Indian Model of Religious Freedom
Thursday,
June 11th
09:00-10:45
Session 6: Gender
M. Christian (Christy)
Green, Emory
University, USA,
Religious
Freedom, Secularism, and Gender Equality: Comparing France and Quebec
Joel Harrison, Macquarie
University, Sydney
Australia,
Debating Rights and
Same-Gender Relationships
11:15-13:00
Session 7: Accommodation
Michael Helfand, Pepperdine
University, USA,
Rebuilding Claims for Religious Accommodation: A
Case Study
Debbie Kaminer, City
University of New York, USA
Religious Accommodation in the American
Workplace: Why Federal Courts Fail to
Provide Meaningful Protection of Religious Employees
1300-1400: Lunch
14:00-15:45
Session 8: Jewish Law
Zvi Zohar, Bar-Ilan
University,
Inequality, Parity,
Equality? Mapping 20th century Rabbinic Positions with Regard to
Non-Jews.
Suzanne Stone, Cardozo Law
School, USA,
Equality versus
Reciprocity in Jewish Legal Thought
16:15-18:00
Session 9: Israel
Michael Karayanni, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
The Exclusion of
the Sephardic Students in Immanuel: A Curse or a Blessing?
Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Bar-Ilan University and David Kretzmer, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
Religious Parties,
the Exclusion of Women and Freedom of Religion and Press
The
conference is generously supported by
The Romie and Esther Tager Fund for
Jewish Law
Please
confirm participation: amos.israel@biu.ac.il
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