This academic year, the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Clinic student fellows have been actively defending religious liberty around the world in a variety of cases.
Here are a few highlights of our fellows’ work.
This past winter, third-year law students Andrew Scarafile and Daisy An, and second-year law student Huan Nguyen worked alongside pre-eminent scholar and human rights attorney, Mark Hill KC, as part of a parliamentary delegation exploring the state of religious liberty in the country, in partnership with Bellwether International. The Nepalese Constitution nominally protects religious liberty, but bans on proselytization still exist and local police and lower courts often misinterpret laws to punish religious individuals for living out their faith.
The student fellows met with members of Parliament and the UK Ambassador to Nepal. And the delegation also met with high-ranking government leaders, including the former Minister of Justice, the Prime Minister’s Adviser on Human Rights, and the Attorney General.
“The students had the chance to work alongside top-ranking government officials in the UK as they advanced religious freedom issues globally and in Nepal. They were also able to see how high the stakes can be in countries where basic freedoms are denied,” said Professor Stephanie Barclay, who oversaw this project.
The delegation also met with and learned about Christian and Muslim religious leaders currently...
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