Strasbourg Consortium Invitation for Associate Dean (Research)

Carolyn Evans has been invited to join the steering committee of the Strasbourg Consortium on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

The Consortium is a body established to further scholarship on religious freedom in international courts and tribunals. The invitation recognises Associate Professor Carolyn Evans’ expertise in human rights and religious freedom.

Associate Professor Evans is the Law School’s Associate Dean (Research) and a Deputy Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. She has recently returned from Geneva, Switzerland where she attended a conference on Freedom of Religion and Belief and Protecting Vulnerable Identities: A Global Snapshot, speaking on ‘Women’s Consent to Discriminatory or Harmful Religious Practices’; and participated in a seminar on Religious Freedom in the European Court of Human Rights, debating the appropriate role of discrimination law in regulating religious organisations with Professor Cole Durham of Brigham Young University.

While in Geneva, Associate Professor Evans also participated in the development of guidelines for the Consortium.