Professor Myriam Hunter-Henin appointed as Visiting Professor at UCLouvain

Professor Myriam Hunter-Henin (Professor of Comparative Law and Law & Religion at UCL Laws) was appointed as Visiting Professor at UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), to engage in teaching in Law & Religion, research seminars and a conference paper on democracy in the workplace.

Professor Hunter-Henin commented:

“I am very grateful for my time as Visiting Professor at UCLouvain. The lectures on Law & Religion from a UK perspective triggered insightful and inquisitive reactions from students on the place of schools with a religious denomination in the state school system; the role of Anglican Bishops in legislative affairs or the (few) limits placed to rights to display religious symbols in the workplace and the public sphere in England.

I also enjoyed the informal interactions with colleagues working on religion from a range of disciplines: Legal History, Feminist Studies, Psychology, Law & Gender, Labour Law, Religious Studies, Comparative Law. It was fantastic to have the opportunity to give a lunch seminar on my recent book and attend a seminar on developments in Quebec.

The two-day conference on Neutrality, Religion and the Workplace was extremely enriching, combining perspectives from philosophy, law, and practitioners. The questions on my paper on “democracy in the workplace” opened up new exciting avenues for research and reflections.

I am therefore deeply indebted to the conference convenor, Dr Léopold Vanbellingen and above all, to my host, Professor Louis-Léon Christians, Professor in Law & Religion at the Faculty of Theology, who organised my visit and welcomed me warmly.”