YALE LAW SCHOOL

DEBATING LAW & RELIGION SERIES

Graduate Student Workshop

November 6 & 7, 2015
New Haven, CT
Call for Papers
Law, Religion, and Politics: Challenges to Traditional Borders in Global and
Comparative Perspectives
Organized by the Yale Law School and the Yale Divinity School

The Yale Law School and the Yale Divinity School invites submissions for a
Graduate Student Workshop to be held as part of the conference on Law, Religion,
and Politics: Challenges to Traditional Borders in Global and Comparative
Perspectives. The conference marks the fourth anniversary of the Debating Law &
Religion Series at Yale Law School. It will draw together leading scholars of religion
from across traditional academic disciplines to reassess the place of religion in our
contemporary societies. Panels will investigate the diversification of Church-State
arrangements across the world as well as the emergence of counter-narratives that
challenge the traditional arc of modern secularization. In addressing traditional
debates about the place of religion in the public sphere (e.g., creationism in public
schools, religious symbols and proselytization in the armed forces, state subsidies for
faith-based initiatives, etc.) as well as the institutional and social changes they have
provoked, this conference seeks to understand the relationship of law and religion in
the contemporary world and to explore its legal and political implications.
In line with the conference theme, the Graduate Student Workshop will showcase
emerging scholarship that examines, challenges, and reassesses the traditional
boundaries of law, religion, and politics. It is open to current J.D, J.S.D./S.J.D., and
Ph.D. candidates.
Submissions: Abstracts of not more than 300 words should be submitted to Michael
Clemente at michael.clemente@yale.edu by March 1, 2015. Please include your name,
institutional affiliation, and contact information. Applicants will be informed of the
outcome selection process by April 15, 2015. Selected applicants will be asked to
submit their papers of up to 10,000 words in length by October 15, 2015.