ND Law Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett and J.S.D. candidate María Paz Madrid present at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | News | The Law School

Four people smile and stand together, all wearing lanyards. A man in a dark suit stands beside a woman in a purple blouse and patterned pants. Next, a woman in a blue patterned dress, then a woman in a red blazer and tan pants. Behind them is a blue screen with a colorful graphic.

On October 15, ND Law Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett and J.S.D. candidate María Paz Madrid participated in a conference, “The Value of Beliefs in Latin American Democracies,” celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1925 Constitution. The conference was organized by the Center for Law & Religion and took place in the Manuel José Irarrázaval Auditorium at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC).

Professor Garnett participated in one of the plenary sessions, “Religious Freedom and Private Education in Latin America: Tensions Between Public Funding, Regulation, and Pluralism.” You can watch it here.

Comments were provided by Edgar Stuardo Ralón Orellana, Commissioner of the IACHR (Guatemala), and the session was moderated by Ana María Celis, director of the Center for Law and Religion at the Catholic University of Chile.

María Paz participated in the session, “Religious Liberty in the Educational Context: Between Scylla (19th century) and Charybdis (20th century).”

Professor Garnett and Nazila Ghanea, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, also met with PUC’s President, Juan Carlos de la Llera.