Melbourne: International Conference Law and religion: legal regulation of religious groups, organisations and communities (15-16 july 2011). Deadline for registration 6 july 2011
CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES – MELBOURNE LAW SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR LAW AND RELIGION STUDIES
International Conference
LAW AND RELIGION: LEGAL REGULATION OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS, ORGANISATIONS AND COMMUNITIES
MELBOURNE LAW SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
15-16 JULY 2011
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 14 JULY
Sir George Turner public lecture: Professor John Witte Jr., ‘Do Bills of Rights Protect or Endanger Religious Free-dom: The American Constitutional Experience’
This lecture is free but requires separate registration even for those who are attending the conference. For more in-formation, and to register click here. You need not attend the conference to attend the public lecture.
FRIDAY 15 JULY
9.00-9.30am: Welcome
Carolyn Evans Dean, Melbourne Law School
W. Cole Durham Jr. Director, International Center for the Study of Law and Religion
9.30-11.00am: The Role, Meaning and Legitimacy of Religious Autonomy
W. Cole Durham Jr., ‘The Nature and Scope of Religious Autonomy Protections’
Ngaire Naffine, 'Whether Respecting Religious Group Rights is Harmful or Helpful (or both) to Women's Rights and Other Human Rights'
Tore Lindholm, ‘A Look in the Opposite Direction: The Significance of Recognizing Across Convictional Divides a Plurality of Legitimate Grounds for Embracing Human Rights’
11.00-11.30am: morning tea
11.30am-1.00pm: Religious communities in Muslim Countries
Abdullah Saeed, ‘Religious Freedom as an Individual Right and a Group Right: An Islamic Legal Perspective’
Tim Lindsey, ‘The State in the Middle? The Legal Status of Islamizing Laws in Indonesia’
Ratna Osman, ‘Substantive and Procedural Issues on Polygamy in Malaysia’s Islamic Family Law: A Critical Review’
1.00-1.45pm: lunch
1.45-3.30: The Role of Religion in Pluralistic Societies
Paul Babie, ‘Religion and Law in the Lives of Australians’
Carlos Valderrama A., ‘The Right to Religious Freedom and the Conditioning of Its Exercise by Individual Freedoms of Belief, Conscience, Thought and Opinion’
Benny Tai, ‘Law and Religion in Traditional and Contemporary China’
Nicholas Aroney, ‘The accommodation of Shari’a within the legal systems of the West: Complexities, Controversies and Unanswered Questions’
3.30-4.00pm: afternoon tea
4.00-5.45pm: Religion, Speech and Symbols
Adrienne Stone, ‘Freedom of Expression and Religious Vilification’
Javier Martinez-Torrón, ‘The Strasbourg Case-law on Religious Symbols in Public Places’
Jeroen Temperman, ‘The Role of Hate Speech Prohibitions in Protecting Religious Communities’
Brett G. Scharffs, ‘The Meaning of Religious Symbols’
6.30-9.30pm: Conference Dinner, Queen’s College (click here for directions)
After dinner speaker Fr Frank Brennan SJ, chair of the national inquiry into a Bill of Rights will speak on the role played by religious groups in the Australian Bill of Rights debate.
Dinner will be charged for separately. Those who are not able to attend the conference or partners of those attending the conference are welcome to attend the dinner at an additional cost.
SATURDAY 16 JULY
9.00-10.45am: Religious Autonomy and its Limits
John Witte Jr., ‘Resolving Intra Church Disputes’
Lisbet Christoffersen, ‘Semi-Autonomous Religious Communities’
Rik Torfs, ‘Limitations to Freedom of Internal Organization’
Gerhard Robbers, ‘Church Autonomy Before the European Court of Human Rights – Recent Judgments and Pending Cases’
10.45-11.00 am: morning tea
11.00-12.30pm: Recognition and Regulation of Religious Groups
Pauline Ridge, ‘The Regulation of Religion Through Charity Law’
Kim-Kwong Chan JP, ‘Challenges on Registration over Autonomous Christian Communities in China’
Juan G. Navarro Floria, ‘Recognising and Regulating Churches and Religious Bodies in Latin America’
12.30-1.00: Conference Close and Panel Reflection
Reflections on the conference from Carolyn Evans, Silvio Ferrari and other invited participants.
1.00-1.45pm: lunch
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION AND THEMES:
Religious freedom is usually set out in international treaties and domestic constitutions as an individual right. Yet it is widely acknowledged that it has significant collective dimensions. This international conference will explore the role of law in regulating religious communities and how the law should and does respond to conflicts between individual and group rights. It will cover both international and comparative domestic law and include experts in the field from across the world.
REGISTRATION:
Places at the conference are strictly limited, so we encourage you to register early. No registrations will be possible after 6 July 2011. To register please complete the registration form.
Please direct any queries to: law-cccs@unimelb.edu.au
The conference gratefully acknowledges the support of Professor Tim Lindsey's Federation Fellowship 'Islam, Modernity: Syariah and Governance in Southeast Asia’.
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