On 3 August 2017 the Center’s Founding Director, Professor Cole Durham. was one of eight principal speakers at the “International Forum on Law and Religion: The Secular State and Religious Freedoms” held at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City. The event was co-sponsored by the Center, the University of Philippines College of Law, the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, and the Philippine Center for Islam. Attending were prominent interfaith leaders; an ambassador and representatives from embassies of Argentina, US, Britain, Austria, Switzerland, and Netherlands; lawyers, justices, and judges, including former and current justices of the Philippine Supreme Court and a judge of the International Criminal Court; law students and faculty from several participating law schools; and members and staff from the Philippine Senate and Congress.

Principal Speakers:

• Judge Raul Pangalangan, International Criminal Court, The Hague
• Justice Marvic Mario Victor Leonen, Supreme Court of the Philippines
• Prof. W. Cole Durham, Brigham Young University Law School
• Prof. Zachary Calo, Hamad bin Khalifa University Law School
• Dean Serafin Cuevas, New Era University College of Law
• Dean Manuel Diokno, De la Salle University College of Law
• Prof. Florin Hilbay, University of the Philippines College of Law
• Dean Ma. Soledad Mawis, Lyceum of the Philippines University College of Law