Law and Religion Research Group

The members of the Law and Religion Research Group are engaged in research which explores: 

  • The complex interaction between law and religion in the context of constitutional law and private law (from a comparative perspective) and public international law;
  • The religious rights discourse within the context of domestic and international law;
  • The cultural impact of religious and philosophical paradigms on the shape and scope of domestic and international legal frameworks dealing with religion. 
  • The normative development and enforcement strategies in the complex and multi-vectored area of law and religion·  

The Group provides a forum for discussion, advice and support for staff and students, including our doctoral students. It also organises conferences, research seminars and workshops aiming to promote knowledge-sharing between academics and practitioners in the following areas of law:

Canon Law, Ecclesiastical Law, Islamic Law and Islamic Finance, Jewish Law, International Law, Religion and the State, Employment Law, Civil Law, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Legal History, Legal Theory

Law, Religion & LGBT rights: Revisiting Christian and Islamic legal traditions regarding sexuality

Friday 5 July 2013

10:30 am, Eastern Gateway Auditorium Brunel University Campus, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge

International Conference on ‘Law , Religion and LGBT rights’, organised by the Brunel Law School and the URC Security,
 Human Rights & the Media.

Dr Ignacio De La Rasilla Del Moral receives collaborative research grant for the study of the "Intercultural Origins of the Law of Nations"

Dr Ignacio De La Rasilla Del Moral receives collaborative research grant awarded by the Institute of Global Law and Policy http://www.harvardiglp.org/

Dr Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral´s new co-edited book on the History of Spanish International Legal Thought in the 20th Century has been published

Published by Thompson Reuters Aranzadi, the leading publisher for legal studies in Spain, the volume gathers contributions by Spanish as well as both American and other European scholars. http://www.tienda.aranzadi.es/productos/libros/historia-del-pensamiento-iusinternacionalista-espanol-del-siglo-xx/4749/4294967293

Dr Ignacio De La Rasilla Del Moral receives collaborative research grant for the study of "Arab and Islamic Legal and International Legal Thought"

Dr Ignacio De La Rasilla Del Moral receives collaborative research grant awarded by the Institute of Global Law and Policy http://www.harvardiglp.org/

International Law, Religion and Empire

Dr. Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral attended a conference "Derecho Internacional, Religión e Imperio" held in Zaragoza University in December 2012.

Religion and International Law in Russia's Foreign Relations

Dr Peter Petkoff has opened the Hilay Term International Relations Seminars at St Antony's College, Oxford with a lecture on Religion and International Law in Russia's Foreign Relations on 14 January 2013.

Page last updated: Friday 18 January 2013