The international conference, entitled New Developments in the Accommodation of Religious Law in Modern States: Critical and Comparative Perspectives, will be held on the 23rd-24th of August 2022 at the University of Haifa in Israel.

This two-day international conference aims to bring together leading scholars studying the implications of religion on family law in various contexts and in various legal systems and to promote a comparative discourse about different institutional arrangements for the accommodation of religious family law in modern states.  By embracing a comprehensive and interdisciplinary comparative approach, the conference seeks to shed light on similarities and differences in the manner in which various legal systems respond to the challenge of accommodating human rights principles with religious normativities and to explore the forms, institutional dynamics, and normative outputs of the possible range of accommodationist models.