Brigham Young University Law Review: Volume 2004, issue no. 2: Papers of the Tenth Annual International Law and Religion Symposium – Religious Pluralism, Difference and Social Stability

The Tenth Annual International Law and Religion Symposium on “Religious Pluralism, Difference and Social Stability” was held at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, U.S.A., on October 5-8, 2003.

The conference focused on “Religious Pluralism, Difference and Social Stability.” Participants included leading experts and government officials from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and North and South America.

Sub-themes included the following:
Religious Pluralism, Security and Human Rights
Religion, Minority Rights and National Identity
Religious Pluralism, an Interconnected World, and the Right to Travel
Religion, Conflict Prevention and Reconciliation
Regional Issues in Law and Religion
Trends: Law, Religion and Paths to the Future

– Opening Address to the Tenth Annual International Law and Religion Symposium
Senator Orrin Hatch
– A China’s Socioeconomic Changes and the Implications for the Religion-State Dynamic in China
Kim-Kwong Chan
– Individual Religious Freedom and National Security in Europe After September 11
Silvio Ferrari
– Advances in Religious Liberty in Peru
Guillermo García-Montúfar, Moisés Arata Solís, Scott E. Isaacson
– Religious Freedom and Laïcité: A Comparison of the United States and France
T. Jeremy Gunn
– New Religious Movements and the Problem of Extremism in Modern Russia
Veronika V. Kravchouk
– The Menace of Neutrality in Religion
Gabriël A. Moens
– Religious Pluralism in Spain: Striking the Balance Between Religious Freedom and Constitutional Rights
Augustín Motilla
– Church-State Relations and the Legal Status of Religious Communities in Slovenia
Dr. Lovro Šturm
– Religious Pluralism, Cultural Differences, and Social Stability in Nigeria
Rose C. Uzoma
– The German Headscarf Debate
Axel Frhr. von Campenhausen

Other articles in this number of the review:

Comments

– So You’ve Been Preempted—What Are You Going to Do Now?: Solutions for States Following Federal Preemption of State Predatory Lending Statutes
Christopher R. Childs
– Proximate Cause and Civil RICO Standing: The Narrowly Restrictive and Mechanical Approach in Lerner v. Fleet Bank and Baisch v. Gallina
Ryan C. Morris
– Tribal Immunity from California’s Campaign Contribution Disclosure Requirements
Cameron A. Reese
– Tarnishment and the FTDA: Lessening the Capacity to Identify and Distinguish
Layne T. Smith

Notes

– The Plight of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act in the Post-Enron Era: The Ninth Circuit’s Interpretation of Materiality in Employer-Teamster v. America West
Patrick Hall
– An Open Question in Utah’s Open Courts Jurisprudence: The Utah Wrongful Life Act and Wood v. University of Utah Medical Center
Glenn E. Roper

Program of the conference