2021-2022

"Neutralizing Secularism: Religious Liberty and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" - Prof. Rabiat Akande (January 26, 2022)

January 26, 2022 “Neutralizing Secularism: Religious Liberty and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” Professor Rabiat Akande Via Zoom Register: https://bit.ly/LRSTJAN26 Contestations pitting the notions of secularism and religious freedom against each other are ubiquitous in the contemporary world. This tension was, in fact, integral to the making of the modern notion of religious liberty in […]

"Jews, Justice, and U.S. Indian Law" - Prof. David S. Koffman (December 3, 2021)

December 3, 2021 “Jews, Justice, and U.S. Indian Law” Professor David S. Koffman Via Zoom Register: https://bit.ly/LRSTDEC3 This talk analyzes the work of a cadre of American Jewish lawyers, civil servants and intellectual New Dealers who turned centuries-long anti-Indian policy on its head and created the most progressive pro-Native policy the U.S. had ever known. Drawing from extensive, original […]

"Unmasking the Hypocrisy of the Niqab Bans" - Dr Miriam Zucker (November 24, 2021)

November 24, 2021 - Co-sponsored with the IFLS “Unmasking the Hypocrisy of the Niqab Bans” Dr. Miriam Zucker Via Zoom Register: https://bit.ly/Niqabban In the last fifteen years many European countries have passed laws that ban the wearing of full-face Muslim veils in public places. In several cases reaching the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR),the […]