Paul Kerry

Associate Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School; Associate Professor, History Department, Brigham Young University, United States

Dr Paul Kerry is an associate director of the law school’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies at BYU, where he is also an associate professor of History. He works in the fields of religion, law, and intellectual history; First Amendment; and international humanitarian projects. He is a contributor to the multi-year project, Documentary History of Jewish-Christian Relations: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2024. He served as the senior academic advisor to the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief (2022-2023) and co-organized the 2023 International Sermon Studies Association conference at Christ Church, Oxford. Professor Kerry is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, and has held fellowships at Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Princeton, and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).