Elizabeth Clark

Associate Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University

Elizabeth A. Clark is Associate Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University. Professor Clark is an expert on religious freedom in Eastern Europe and comparative law and religion. She has written over 40 chapters and articles and edited several books on comparative and U.S. law and religion issues and religion in post-Communist Europe, including co-editing Religion during the RussianUkrainian Conflict. Professor Clark has been featured in Radio Free Europe, radio and public television shows in the U.S. and internationally, The National Review, and SCOTUSBlog and has been consulted by reporters from USA Today, Bloomberg, NPR, and others. In her work with the Center, she has spoken at and organized over 100 academic conferences throughout the world. She has also testified before the U.S.Congress and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on religious freedom issues, taken part in drafting legal analyses of pending legislation aKecting religious freedom in over a dozen countries, and has written amicus briefs on religious freedom issues for the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to joining the Law School, Professor Clark was an associate in the Washington, D.C., oKice of Mayer, Brown & Platt, where she was a member of the Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Group. Professor Clark also clerked for Judge J. CliKord Wallace on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She graduated summa cum laude from BYU’s law school, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the BYU Law Review.