My research focuses on the legal protection of sacred spaces and religious cultural heritage as well as on the coexistence of religious and non-religious legal systems, canon law and comparative religious law. Through my work, I engage with academics, policy makers, lawyers, religious leaders and think tanks working in the field of religion and public life. In addition to academic, this work has had impact on policy makers and on the ways religious communities articulate their public self-perception and their attitude to law, civic values, secularism and to their own internal normative systems. I belong to several international research networks which study the broader questions of law and religion and religion and politics and have extensive contacts with human rights lawyers as well as with Jewish, Islamic and Christian lawyers working in this area.

I am member of the Executive Board of the European Academy of Religion, Religious Liberty Initiative at the University of Notre Dame and the G20 Forum on Religion and Sustainable Development.

My Role in College

I am Tutorial Fellow in Law at Regent’s Park College where I also direct Law and Religion, Oxford. I am Managing Editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. In my capacity as Director of Law and Religion Oxford  at Regent’s Park College, I bring together lawyers, theologians, philosophers, social and political scientists and aims to develop innovative interdisciplinary strategies for studying law, religion and international relations from legal and theological perspectives.