Law, Religion and Tradition

From the Secularisation Theory to the Pluralistic Approach: Reconciling Religious Traditions and Modernity in Italian Case-law.- The Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan: Experimenting with History and Tradition.- An Analysis of the Possibility of Fulfilling Gender Equality Within the Legal System of The Islamic Republic Of Iran (Iri).- Tradition's Edge: Interactions between Religious Tradition and Sexual Freedom.- The Inverted Relationship: Constitutive Theory of Law and the Enforcement of Orthodoxy in the book XVI of The Theodosian Code.- The Recent, and Sometimes Invented, Origins of Some "Longstanding" Traditions.- Law, Religion, and the Detraditionalization Of Europe.- Tradition as a Peacebuilding Tool.

Jessica Giles is a law lecturer at the Open University. She graduated in Law at Durham University and completed her master's in International Human Rights Law and European Union Law at Bristol University. She studied theology at the Open Theological College and theology of law at Spurgeon's College. She qualified as a Solicitor in 1991 and transferred to the Bar in 2016. She has worked as a law reporter for the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales in the Chancery, Queen's Bench and Administrative Divisions of the High Court as well as in the Court of Justice of the European Union. She gained her Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2015 and Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2016.Andrea Pin (JD, University of Padua; PhD, University of Turin) is Associate Professor at the University of Padua, where he has taught Comparative Public Law, Economic & Social Rights, Islamic Law, Human Rights in Comparative Perspective, and Italian Constitutional Law. A former judicial clerk to the Italian Constitutional Court, he has taught at the U.S. Universities of Emory, where he is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, and of Notre Dame, where he was also Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies in 2014. He is author of four books, including "The Legal Treatment of Muslim Minorities in Italy" (Ashgate 2016); his scholarly articles have appeared in U.S., British, Italian, Spanish, and French journals.





Frank S. Ravitch is professor of Law and Walter H. Stowers Chair in Law in Religion at the Michigan State University College of Law. He also directs the Kyoto Japan Program. He is the author of Freedom's Edge: Religious Freedom, Sexual Freedom, and the Future of America (Cambridge University Press, 2016) (Nominated for a Prose Award); Marketing Creation: The Law and Intelligent Design (Cambridge University Press 2012), Masters of Illusion: The Supreme