Baroness Elizabeth Berridge Receives 2017 International Religious Liberty Award

The J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies were honored to present the International Religious Liberty Award for 2017 to Baroness Elizabeth Berridge for her many years of support and work for religious liberty. 

Elizabeth became Baroness Berridge of the Vale of Catmose in the County of Rutland on 20th January 2011. As a member of the House of Lords she founded and chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on International Freedom of Religion or Belief (APPG) and is a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. Within her role as Baroness Berridge she works on projects relating to policing, human rights and foreign affairs and is patron of the Rutland Foodbank. She is a trustee…

2017 Founding Fathers Religious Liberty Student Writing Competition Award Winners

The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the J. Reuben Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies are pleased to announce the winners of the 8th Annual Religious Liberty Student Writing Competition. The winners were announced at the International Religious Liberty Awards Dinner held on Thursday, October 5, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

First Place ($4000): Michael West (University of Virginia School of Law)
Paper Title: Waiving the Ministerial Exception

Second Place ($3000): Daniel Boger (University of Virginia School of Law)
Paper title: The Executive Branch as a Promoter of Religious Liberty …

The Eighth Annual Religious Liberty Student Writing Competition

SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE JULY 1 for the Eighth Annual Founding Fathers Religious Liberty Writing Contest. The contest is sponsored by the District of Columbia Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies…