1. Freedom of artistic expression in religious diverse societies: religious insult, censorship and controversial works of art (Nikos Gaitenidis)

2. Combating Discrimination through Criminal Law: EU Legislative Initiatives on Hate Crime, Hate Speech and Discrimination on the Basis of Religion and Other Characteristics (Lima Dafni)

3. The Legal Position of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Case Law of the ECtHR (Dimitrios Nikiforos)

4. The Notion of ‘Reasonable Accommodation of Religion’ in American and French Law and Social Practices (Ioannis Papadopoulos)

There is a threefold interest in this research project. It opens a field of comparative research of the conception of “separation of religion and state” (laïcité in French) in American and French law; it performs a literature review, as well as a review of legislation and case law, which will have an added value as sources of reference concerning the different schools of thought on the relations between the religious and the secular; and it has a philosophical and sociological interest as a higher-order reflection on the possible accommodations between the republican law and the religious phenomenon.

1. Religion in pluralistic democracies: co-existence, Human Rights, moderation, and cosmopolitan deliberation (Christos N. Tsironis)

2. Religion and the Radical Right in Greece: Discourse Analysis and Electoral Behaviour(Konstantinos Papastathis)

3. Inter-religious dialogue frameworks in the European Union (Despoina Anagnostopoulou)

1. The Church, the Mufti and the Greek Family Law (Eleni Zervogianni)

2. Examining the subject of Religious Education in the Greek Secondary School

3. From the Primacy of Peter . . . to the Primacy of EU Law: What the CJEU Could Learn from the Canon Law of the Church of the First Millennium

4. Church and State relations in Europe and in Greece. A study based on the Proceedings of the Greek parliament. (The formation of the State Church Relations and the parliamentary practice from 1844) (Lina Papadopoulou  - Nikos Maghioros)

5. State – Church models in the light of the European standards for protecting religious liberty

This extended essay will provide with a comparative analysis of the models regulating the relations and correlation between religious communities and churches on the one hand and state on the other. It will then proceed to evaluate these models under the light of the jurisprudence of both European courts, the CJEU and the ECtHR. It will then focus on the Greek model and critically challenge its dark sides and shed light upon its deficiancies when compared to European human rights standards.