The Consorcio Latinoamericano de Libertad Religiosa held its 13th Annual Colloquium – “Libertad Religiosa, Igualdad y Autonomía de las Entidades Religiosas” – August 19-21, 2013 at Randolph-Macon University near Richmond, Virginia. The conference was sponsored by the International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS) of the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University. Center Director W. Cole Durham, Jr., who is also President of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS, Milan, Italy), was the keynote speaker.

The Conorcio Latinoamericano de Libertad Religiosa is the foremost academic association for scholars of law and religion in Latin America. Scholars from the International Center for Law and Religion Studies have participated in the Consorcio’s annual colloquium every year since its inception in 2000. This is the first year the Center has hosted the colloquium. The Consorcio’s immediate past president, Juan G. Navarro Floria, serves on the Center’s Academic Advisory Board, and its current president, Ana María Celis, is Vice President of ICLARS.