Research interests include: International law, human rights, role of nonstate actors, freedom of religion, church-state relations, nonprofit law, & NGO law.
Articles
Should New Bills of Rights Address Emerging International Human Rights Norms? The Challenge of “Defamation of Religion”, Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights (2010)
The emerging international human rights norm of “defamation of religion,” an ongoing flashpoint in debates...
One New President, One New Patriarch and a Generous Disregard for the Constitution: A Recipe for the Continuing Decline of Secular Russia, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2010)
The government of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC)—the country’s predominant religious group—recently underwent...
'Babushka Said Two Things - It Will Either Rain or Snow; It Either Will or Will Not': An Analysis of the Provisions and Human Rights Implications of Russia's New Law on Nongovernmental Organizations as Told Through Eleven Russian Proverbs, The George Washington International Law Review (2008)
Longtime observers of Russia increasingly have called attention to and expressed profound concern for the...
How to Entrench a De Facto State Church in Russia: A Guide in Progress, Brigham Young University Law Review (2008)
The Russian Orthodox Church's (ROC) assertion of a constitutionally inappropriate role in affairs of state...
The Religion-State Relationship and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Comparative Textual Analysis of the Constitutions of Predominantly Muslim Countries (with Tad Stahnke), Georgetown Journal of International Law (2005)
This study analyzes the constitutional provisions in 44 predominantly Muslim countries addressing the relationship between...
Contributions to Books
The Bottom Up Journey of 'Defamation of Religion' from Muslim States to the United Nations: A Case Study of the Migration of Anti-Constitutional Ideas, Special Issue Human Rights: New Possibilities/New Problems (2011)
This chapter is intended to elaborate on the existing academic literature addressing the migration of...
Unpublished Papers
Russia’s 'Orthodox' Foreign Policy: The Growing Influence of the Russian Orthodox Church in Shaping Russia’s Policies Abroad (2011)
The government of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC)—the country’s predominant religious group—recently underwent...
Other
Analysis of the Republic of Tajikistan's Draft Law 'About Freedom of Conscience and Religious Unions' (with W. Cole Durham) (2008)
This article, prepared at the request of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), provides...