Established in 2020, Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative promotes religious freedom for people of all faiths through scholarship, events, and the Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic. The inaugural Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit in 2021 brought scholars, advocates, and religious leaders to campus in June 2021 for conversations about the future of religious liberty in the U.S. and around the world. The 2022 Summit took place in Rome, Italy.

Featured Speakers:

• Nury Turkel, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
• Farahnaz Ispahani, The International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief and Former Member, Parliament of Pakistan
• Dr. Rodrigo Vitorino Souza Alves, Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Federal University of Uberlandia and Lead Researcher, Brazilian Center for Studies in Law and Religion
• Samah Norquist (moderator), Public Policy Fellow, The Wilson Center
  Former Chief Advisor for International Religious Freedom to the Administrator, USAID
• Laura Palazzani, Professor of Philosophy of Law, LUMSA University of Rome
• Lorenza Violini, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Milan
• Andrea Simoncini, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Florence
• Stefan McDaniel (moderator), Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
• President Dallin H. Oaks, First Counselor in the First Presidency, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Imam Dr. Nader Akkad, Grand Mosque of Rome and Co-President, International Marian Muslim Christian Commission
• His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos OBE, Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London, Papal Legate to the United Kingdom
• Grandmother Mona Polacca, International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
• Fr. John Paul Kimes (moderator), Associate Professor of the Practice, Notre Dame Law School
• Ana María Celis Brunet, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Law and Religion, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
• Augusta Muthigani, National Executive Secretary, Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Very Rev. Fr. Friedrich Bechina, F.S.O., Undersecretary, Congregation for Catholic Education
• Brett Scharffs, Rex E. Lee Chair and Professor of Law and Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School
• Nicole Stelle Garnett (moderator), John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
• Dr. Barbara Jatta, Director, Vatican Museums
• Eric Rassbach, Vice President and Senior Counsel and Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
• John L. Allen Jr., Editor, Crux
• Fr. James Martin, SJ, Editor-at-Large, America Magazine
• Kelsey Dallas, Religion reporter and editor, Deseret News
• Richard Garnett (moderator), Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corp. Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
• Steven Smith, Professor of Law and Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Law & Religion and University of San Diego School of Law
• Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, emerita, Harvard Law School and Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
• Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
  Professor of Politics and Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University
• Cornel West, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy & Christian Practice, Union Theological Seminary
• G. Marcus Cole (moderator), Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law,
  Notre Dame Law School