Law, Religion, and State in Practice

States and religion are everywhere in our world, but they come together in different ways – and one of the main locations of friction is law. What can scholarship in its various disciplines do to help us understand these frictions? Join us for a discussion in which law, political science, media studies, anthropology, and religious studies are brought into dialogue on religion, state, and law.

Nathan J. Brown • HIAS Alumnus, George Washington University
Mirjam Künkler • Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London
Ralf Michaels • Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
Maya Mikdashi • Rutgers University
Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen • University of Copenhagen

Moderator:
Nadjma Yassari • Swiss Institute for Comparative Law, Universities of Zurich and Hamburg

Further details on the HIAS Summer School, as part of which the event is taking place, can be found here.

If you would like to participate, we kindly ask you to register here. R.S.V.P. by 3 July 2026