Recent Presentations

First Things Lecture Series (New York) (2012), Equality for Christians in the Middle East: Yesterday and Today.

Religious Legal Theory Conference: The Competing Claims of Law and Religion, Pepperdine University School of Law (2012), Crosses and Culture: Public Religious Symbols in the U.S. and Europe.

St. John's Colloquium on Law and Religion (2012), Colloquium Director (papers by Philip Hamburger, M. Cathleen Kaveny, Michael W. McConnell, Ayelet Shachar, Antonin Scalia, and Joseph H. H. Weiler)

Guild of Catholic Lawyers, Legal Equality for Christians in the Middle East (2011)

Roundtable on International Law, Foreign Law, and the United States Constitution, The Liberty Fund (2011) (invited participant)

Forum 2000 Conference, "Democracy and Law" (Prague) (2011), Panelist, Panels on "Religion, Ethics, and Law" and "Religious and Secular Law"

New York Research Roundtable, St. John’s Center for International and Comparative Law (2011), Commentator

Symposium, “Where Is the Middle East Heading?”, Oasis International Foundation (Venice) (2011), Ottoman Secularization in the Nineteenth Century: The Tanzimat and Christian Minorities

Symposium on Challenges to International Law, St. John’s University Center for International and Comparative Law (2011), Moderator, Panel, “How Should the International Community Be Regulated? Who Should Do It?”

Religious Legal Theory Conference: Religion in Law and Law in Religion, St. John’s University School of Law (2010), Conference Director

Conference on Religion and the Secular State: Comparative Perspectives, Catholic University of America (2010), Panelist, Panel on Religious Symbols in Public Space

Conference on Laïcité in Comparative Perspective, St. John’s University School of Law (Paris Campus) (2010), Conference Director and Moderator, Panel on Laïcité – Current Issues

Conference on Law and Religion, Oxford Society for Law and Religion, Oxford University (2010), Moderator, Panel on Legal Protection of Holy Places

Center for Faith and Work (2010), Fiqh and Canons: Reflections on Islamic and Christian Jurisprudence

Conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools, BYU Law School, Panel on the Role of Sacred Texts and Traditions in Informing Our Understanding and Engagement of Jurisprudence (2010), Fiqh and Canons: Reflections on Islamic and Christian Jurisprudence

Conference on the Armenian Genocide within the Framework of National and International Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minneapolis) (2010), Legal Reform (Tanzimat) in the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide 

Faculty Workshop, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minneapolis) (2010), Fiqh and Canons: Reflections on Islamic and Christian Jurisprudence 

Annual Conference on Christian Legal Thought, Lumen Christi Institute (2010), Muslims, Christians, and Law 

Conference on Religious Legal Theory: The State of the Field, Seton Hall Law School (2009), Muslims, Christians, and Law 

Roundtable on Liberty, Investiture, and the Papal Revolution, The Liberty Fund (2009), Invited Participant 

Annual Conference on Christian Legal Thought, Lumen Christi Institute (2009), Moderator, Panel on the Mortgage and Credit Crisis from a Christian Perspective