Faculty
Peter G. Danchin
Professor of Law and
Director, International and Comparative Law Program
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B.A., University of Melbourne, 1994
LL.B. (Hons), University of Melbourne, 1994
LL.M., Columbia University, 1998
J.S.D., Columbia University, 2006
Peter Danchin is Professor of Law and Director of the International and Comparative Law Program at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. He holds a B.A. and LL.B. with first class honors from the University of Melbourne where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Melbourne University Law Review and President of the Law Students' Society, and a LL.M. and J.S.D. from Columbia Law School where he was a Bretzfelder International Law Fellow. From 2000-2006, he was lecturer and director of the human rights program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and from 1997-2000 taught in a research and training program conducted by the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University on Religion, Human Rights and Religious Freedom. He has been a foreign law clerk to Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, worked as a foreign associate at the New York law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, and as an associate at the Australian law firm of Allens Arthur Robinson. He currently teaches public international law, international human rights, South African constitutional law, and comparative public policy and law reform.
Danchin’s scholarship focuses on competing conceptions of the right to freedom of religion and belief in international legal theory and on tensions between liberal and value pluralist approaches in particular. He is co-editor with Elizabeth A. Cole of Protecting the Human Rights of Religious Minorities in Eastern Europe (Columbia, 2002) and his articles in this area have been published in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law; Yale Journal of International Law; Journal of Law and Religion; Harvard International Law Journal; Duke Forum for Law and Social Change; and Michigan Journal of International Law.
Danchin is currently engaged in a joint research project on the "Politics of Religious Freedom: Contested Norms and Local Practices" funded by the Henry R. Luce Foundation of New York which examines the multiple histories and genealogies of religious freedom. The project includes a series of workshops to be held in Venice, Chiang Mai and Cairo as well as a new course on "Religious Freedom and the Rights of Religious Minorities" co-taught in July 2011 at the Venice School of Human Rights.
At Maryland, Danchin is co-chair of the Colloquium in International and Comparative Law and faculty advisor to the Maryland Journal of International Law. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Public and International Law at the ANU College of Law in Canberra, Australia; an Erasmus Mundus Scholar at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at the Ruhr Universität in Bochum, Germany; and a Visiting Professor in Human Rights at the University for Peace in Costa Rica, the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and Externado University in Bogota, Colombia.
Books
The Politics of Religious Freedom: Contested Genealogies, Special Issue, 113:1 South Atlantic Quarterly (forthcoming 2014) (with Saba Mahmood).
Editor, After Religious Freedom? (forthcoming 2014) (with Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Saba Mahmood and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan).
Editor, United Nations Reform and the New Collective Security (2010) (with Horst Fisher). [Abstract]
Editor, Protecting the Human Rights of Religious Minorities in Eastern Europe (2002) (with Elizabeth A. Cole).
Articles
Hosanna-Tabor in the Religious Freedom Panopticon, in After Religious Freedom? (forthcoming 2014) (with Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Saba Mahmood and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan). [Full Text]
Religious Freedom in the Jurisprudence of the Egyptian and European Court of Human Rights, 113:1 South Atlantic Quarterly (forthcoming 2014) (with Saba Mahmood). [Full Text]
The Contested Genealogies of Religious Freedom: An Introduction, 113:1 South Atlantic Quarterly (forthcoming 2014) (with Saba Mahmood).
The Politics of Religious Establishment: Recognition of Muslim Marriages in South Africa, in Religious Freedom and Varieties of Establishment (Lori Beaman and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan eds., 2013). [Full Text]
The Tangled Law and Politics of Religious Freedom, 10 Santa Clara Journal of International Law 73 (2012). [Full Text]
Islam in the Secular Nomos of the European Court of Human Rights, 32 Michigan Journal of International Law 663 (2011). [Full Text]
Introduction: The New Collective Security, in United Nations Reform and the New Collective Security (Peter Danchin & Horst Fischer eds., 2010). [Full Text]
Things Fall Apart: The Concept of Collective Security in International Law, in United Nations Reform and the New Collective Security (Peter Danchin & Horst Fischer eds., 2010). [Full Text]
Defaming Muhammad: Dignity, Harm and Incitement to Religious Hatred, 2 Duke Forum for Law and Social Change 5 (2010). [Full Text]
Whose Public? Which Law? Mapping the Internal/External Distinction in International Law, in Sanctions, Accountability and Governance in a Globalised World (Kim Rubenstein and Jeremy Farrall eds. 2009) [Full Text]
International Law, Human Rights and the Transformative Occupation of Iraq, in The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict 64 (Brett Bowden et al. eds., 2009). [Full Text]
Who is the "Human" in Human Rights? The Claims of Culture and Religion, 24 Maryland Journal of International Law 94 (2009). [Full Text]
Beyond Rationalism and Instrumentalism: the Case for Rethinking U.S. Engagement with International Law and Organization, 28 SAIS Review 79 (2008). [Full Text]
Suspect Symbols: Value Pluralism as a Theory of Religious Freedom in International Law, 33 Yale Journal of International Law 2 (2008) [Full Text]
Of Prophets and Proselytes: Freedom of Religion and the Conflict of Rights in International Law, 49 Harvard International Law Journal 249 (2008). [Full Text]
The Emergence and Structure of Religious Freedom in International Law Reconsidered, 23 Journal of Law and Religion 455 (2008). [Full Text]
Between Rogues and Liberals: Toward Value Pluralism as a Theory of Freedom in Religion in International Law, 100 American Society of International Law Proceedings 114 (2006). [Full Text]
Human Rights, Humanitarian Law and the "War on Terrorism" in Afghanistan, in Between Force and Mercy: Military Action and Humanitarian Aid 111 (Dennis Dijkzeul, ed. 2004). [Full Text]
Transitional Justice in Afghanistan: Confronting Violations of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law, 4 Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 1 (2003). [Full Text]
The Evolving Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Protection of Religious Minorities, in Protecting the Human Rights of Religious Minorities in Eastern Europe 192 (Elizabeth A. Cole & Peter Danchin, eds. 2002). [Full Text]
External Monitoring and the International Protection of Freedom of Religion or Belief in Protecting the Human Rights of Religious Minorities in Eastern Europe 131 (Elizabeth A. Cole & Peter Danchin, eds. 2002). [Full Text]
Religion, Religious Minorities and Human Rights: An Introduction in Protecting the Human Rights of Religious Minorities in Eastern Europe 1 (Elizabeth A. Cole & Peter Danchin, eds. 2002). [Full Text]
U.S. Unilateralism and the International Protection of Religious Freedom: The Multilateral Alternative, 41 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 35 (2002). [Full Text]
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