The Sixteenth Annual International Law and Religion Symposium of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies convened at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School in Provo, Utah, on Sunday evening, 4 October 2009, at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, where delegates and other participants in the Moot Court Room as well as those accessing the live stream of the session available through this website, were pleased to witness the bestowal of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies’ Distinguished Service Award for Religious Freedom upon Senior Judge J. Clifford Wallace, Chief Judge Emeritus of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Keynote addresses were delivered by Anastasia Crickley, Chairperson of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency, and The Honourable Pius Nkonzo Langa, Chief Justice of the South Africa Constitutional Court. 

The 2009 Symposium, brought together 80 leading experts – scholars, judges, and government and religious leaders – from 44 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North and South America, and the Pacific to discuss challenges and successes in implementing principles of freedom of religion or belief worldwide.