Dmytro Vovk – Director, Center for Rule of Law and Religion Studies, Yaroslav the Wise National Law University

Dr. Dmytro Vovk runs the Center for Rule of Law and Religion Studies at Yaroslav the Wise National Law University (Kharkiv, Ukraine). He was an expert on human rights and rule of law for USAID, OSCE/ODIHR, Council of Europe, and Constitutional Commission of Ukraine. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Philosophy of Law and General Theory of Law. His last publications include, as author, Ukrainian Churches and European Integration Policy: Human Rights Context (2017); Balancing Religious Freedom in the Context of Secularity: Analysis of Court Practice in Ukraine (2015); as editor, Law, Religion and Cinema (2018, in Ukrainian); Tolerance in Transitional Societies: Philosophical, Legal, Political, Sociological Dimensions (2016, in Ukrainian); and, as translator, Paul Gowder, Rule of Law in the Real World (2018, in Ukrainian). Dr. Vovk was a Kennan-Fulbright Fellow at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC), and was a member of the inaugural ICLRS Certificate Program on Religion and the Rule of Law held at Oxford, UK in 2018. He is currently a visiting researcher at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University Law School.