Punte De Este Declaration

Ewelina Ochab – Legal Researcher; Author of Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East

1 1 Ewelina U. Ochab is a legal researcher and human rights advocate, and author of the book Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East. Ochab works on the topic of the persecution of minorities around the world, with main projects including Daesh genocide in...

Frank Ravitch – Professor of Law & Walter H. Stowers Chair of Law and Religion, Michigan State University College of Law

1 1 Professor Ravitch’s career has included experience in private practice and on Capitol Hill. Since joining Michigan State University’s Law College he has authored several books, and a number of law review articles, essays, book reviews, and book chapters, as well as amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court....

Ann Power-Forde – Human Rights Jurist

1 1 Ann Power-Forde is a Human Rights Jurist and an experienced International Judge, having served on the European Court of Human Rights from March 2008 until her final case in July 2015. During her time on the Strasbourg Court her separate opinions contributed to significant developments in the case...

Clelia Piperno – Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Teramo

1 1 Clelia Piperno, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Teramo, published The Constitutional Court and the Limit of Political Question in 1991, and The Democratic Coexistence Possible in a Multicultural Country in 2008. She collaborates with the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities, and Research (MIUR) and has held...

Andrea Pin – Associate Professor in Comparative Law, University of Padua

1 1 Andrea Pin is associate professor in constitutional and comparative law at the University of Padua. He holds a PhD from the University of Turin. He has clerked at the Italian Constitutional Court since 2011. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and...

Peter Petkoff – Director of Religion, Law and International Relations Programme, Regent’s Park College, Oxford; Law Lecturer, Brunel Law School

1 1 Dr. Peter Petkoff is a Law Lecturer at the Brunel Law School and Director of the Religion, Law, and International Relations Programme, a collaborative international research network at Regent’s Park College, Oxford, in which capacity he brings together lawyers, theologians, philosophers, and social and political scientists, to develop...

Fabio Petito – Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex; Scientific Co-ordinator, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs–ISPI initiative on Religions and International Relations

1 1 Fabio Petito is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK. He received his PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics, where he was also editor of the journal Millennium. Among his publications are Religion in International Relations (2003), Civilizational Dialogue and...

Patrick Parkinson – Dean of Law, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland

1 1 Patrick Parkinson is Dean of Law, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland. He was previously Professor of Law, University of Sydney. Professor Parkinson a specialist in family law, child protection and the law of equity and trusts. He is also a founding member of Freedom...

Norberto Padilla – President, Latin American Consortium for Religious Liberty

1 1 Norberto Padilla is an attorney who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1970. He was an advisor to Dr. Fernando de la Rúa, Chairman of the Commission for Constitutional Affairs in the Argentina Senate, between 1983 and 1989. In the Foreign Affairs Ministry, he served as...