Upcoming Conferences
The State of Religious Freedom Conference
June 11 - 13, 2025
The Ken Starr Institute for Faith, Law, and Public Service, in partnership with the Nootbaar Institute and the Centre for Law and Religious Freedom at Jagiellonian University, is pleased to announce an inaugural conference on religious liberty. This invite-only event will be hosted at the Pepperdine University campus in Switzerland, the Chateau d'Hauteville in Blonday - Saint Legier.
The conference is scheduled for June 12-13 and will bring together religious liberty scholars, practitioners, and jurists to discuss comparative approaches to advancing religious freedom from a variety of transatlantic perspectives. Additional information regarding the participants and agenda will be provided on this webpage in the coming months.
We are grateful to our sponsors at Founders’ First Freedom for making this event possible.
Conference Agenda
Event Organizers
Grzegorz Blicharz
Associate Professor
Director, Centre for Law and Religious Freedom
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Trey Childress
Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso Law
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Ken Starr Institute
Danny DeWalt
Senior Vice President for Global Impact and Chief of Staff, Pepperdine University
Michael Helfand
Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso Law
Codirector, Nootbaar Institute
Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier
Professor of Law
Head, Department of Roman Law,
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Eric Rassbach
Visiting Professor, Pepperdine Caruso Law
Director, Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation
Religious Liberty Clinic
Gracie Barrett
Executive Assistant to the Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff, Pepperdine University
Mireille Roquingy
Director of Hospitality, Château d'Hauteville
Pepperdine
Allyse Wesolowski
Assistant Director of Operations
Ken Starr Institute and Nootbaar Institute
Event Participants
Steve Allred
Netta Barak-Corren
Stephanie Barclay
Pierre-Hugues Barré
Sam Brownback
Alan Brownstein
Patrick Bumatay
Paul Caron
Walter Carson
Daniel Chen
Louis-Léon Christians
Paul Clement
Vincent DeGaetano
James Dingemans
Noel Francisco
Rick Garnett
Frederick Gedicks
Jessie Hill
Mark Hill
Sara Jackson
Frank Judo
Roger Kiska
Jennifer Koh
Doug Laycock
Christopher Lund
Jónatas Machado
Javier Martínez-Torrón
Josh McDaniel
John Meiser
Rebecca Mellos
Anna Mergele
Carl Mergele
Nicholas Miller
Johnnie Moore
Michaela Moravčíková
Victor Muñiz-Fratticelli
Ruth Nordström
Ruth Okediji
Andrew Oldham
James Oleske
Lina Papadopoulou
Brandon Paradise
Michael Peabody
Pete Peterson
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque
Laura Portuondo
Ann Power
Zalman Rothschild
Faraz Sanei
Audra Savage
Balázs Schanda
Chagai Schlesinger
Amy Sepinwall
Elizabeth Sepper
Beatrice Serra
Andrea Simoncini
Alice Starr
Mark Storslee
David Trimble
Asma Uddin
Sophie van Bijsterveld
Léopold Vanbellingen
Lael Weinberger
Sean Wu