Dmytro Vovk

Dmytro Vovk runs the Center for the Rule of Law and Religion Studies at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He is an expert on the rule of law and religious freedom for UNFPA, OSCE/ODIHR, the Council of Europe, Freedom House, and USAID. He is an academic adviser to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and the Ukrainian State Agency for Ethnic Policies and Freedom of Conscience. In 2019, he was appointed as a member of the OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of...See more

Dmytro Vovk runs the Center for the Rule of Law and Religion Studies at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He is an expert on the rule of law and religious freedom for UNFPA, OSCE/ODIHR, the Council of Europe, Freedom House, and USAID. He is an academic adviser to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and the Ukrainian State Agency for Ethnic Policies and Freedom of Conscience. In 2019, he was appointed as a member of the OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief. His publications include, as author, a chapter on 'Soviet Law and Political Religion' for a volume on Law as Religion, Religion as Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and a policy report on Religion and Forced Displacement in Ukraine (Foreign Policy Centre, 2020); as co-editor (with Elizabeth Clark), Religion during the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict (Routledge, 2020); and, as a translator, W. Cole Durham, Jr. and Brett G. Scharffs, Law and Religion: National, International and Comparative Perspective (Russian translation, 2021) and Paul Gowder, Rule of Law in the Real World (Ukrainian translation, 2018). He is co-editor of the 'Talk About: Law and Religion' blog of the BYU International Center for Law and Religion Studies. See less