Law and Religion, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin

Law and Religion: Irish Context; International Perspectives

Friday, 6th November 2015

About the Event

Debates about law and religion have suffused politics for centuries and contemporary Irish society provides a rich context for a discussion of key issues in the field. A series of referenda on matters central to traditional Irish identity has re-calibrated popular religiosity, irrevocably changed attitudes towards institutional authority, and ushered in an awareness of the centrality of religious freedom in the vision of human rights. Trinity College Dublin's School of Religions, Peace Studies and Theology and the School of Law, working with members from The Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff Law School, will host this one-day inter-disciplinary conference in the Long Room Hub to debate a host of critical issues including:

Religious freedom under the Irish Constitution
Human Rights and Islam
Patronage and Education
Blasphemy in Relation to Irish law
How the Judiciary have 'Defined' Religion
Changing Models of Church & State in Europe
The Right to Manifest Religion
Law as an Instrument of Ecumenism

Venue:

The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

Speakers:

Neville Cox (School of Law, TCD)
Frank Cranmer (St Chad's College, Durham & Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff)
Eoin Daly (School of Law, NUI, Galway)
Norman Doe (Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff)
Roja Fazaelli (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, TCD)
Silvio Ferrari (University of Milan and Catholic University of Leuven)
Gerard Hogan (Judge of the Court of Appeal, Ireland)
Celia Kenny (TCD & Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff)
Marco Ventura (Department of Law, University of Siena)
Gerry Whyte (School of Law, TCD)

Chairs:

Linda Hogan (Vice-Provost/Chief Academic officer, TCD)
Oran Doyle (Head of School, School of Law, TCD)