Mark L. Movsesian

Frederick A. Whitney Professor of Contract Law and Director, Center for Law and Religion

Harvard College (summa cum laude)
Harvard Law School (magna cum laude)

Professor Movsesian is the Frederick A. Whitney Professor of Contract Law and the Director of the Center for Law and Religion. He writes in law and religion, contracts and international and comparative law; his articles have appeared in the Harvard, North Carolina, and Washington & Lee Law Reviews, the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, the American Journal of International Law, the Harvard International Law Journal, the Virginia Journal of International Law, and many others. He has been a visiting professor at Notre Dame and Cardozo Law Schools and has delivered papers at numerous workshops in the United States and Europe. He teaches offerings in contracts, comparative law and law and religion.

Professor Movsesian graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. In law school, he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a recipient of the Sears Prize, awarded to the two highest-ranking students in the second-year class. He clerked for Justice David H. Souter of the Supreme Court of the United States and served as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice. Before starting at St. John's, he was the Max Schmertz Distinguished Professor of Law at Hofstra.

Professor Movsesian blogs regularly at the Center for Law and Religion Forum.

Selected Publications

Media Appearances and Contributions

Recent Presentations

2015 Libertas Workshop on Religious Freedom, Invited Participant

ICON-S 2015 Conference on Public Law in an Uncertain World, Panelist, “The Foundation of an Uncertain Law”

Hudson Institute Conference on the Islamic State’s Religious Cleansing (2015), Panelist, “Genocide and Crimes against Humanity: The Islamic State’s Impact on Vulnerable Religious Minority Communities

International Law and Religion Moot Court Competition (2015), Fondazione Marcianum (Venice), Judge

Panel on ISIS and Mideast Christians (2015), St. John’s University School of Law, Moderator

Federal Bar Council Winter Bar Retreat (2015), Panelist, “The Evolution and Implications of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act”

American Historical Society Annual Meeting (2015), Panelist, “Contemporary Orthodox Christianity and Human Rights”

Lanier Theological Library Lecture Series (2014), Religious Freedom for Middle East Christians: Yesterday and Today

Conference on International Freedom and the Global Clash of Values, St. John's University (Rome Campus) and Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta (LUMSA) (2014), Conference Co-Director and Moderator, "Christian and Islamic Approaches to International Religious Freedom"

International Consortium of Law and Religion Scholars Biannual Conference (2013), Is Religion Special?

Annual Law and Religion Roundtable (2013), Psychic Sophie and the Rise of the Nones

European University Institute (2013), Psychic Sophie and the Rise of the Nones

Religious Legal Theory Conference, Touro Law School (2013), Religious Legal Theory and the Perspective of “Others”

Religion Communicators Council Meeting (2013), Law and Religion Today

Guild of Catholic Lawyers (2012), Public Religious Symbols

St. Nersess Armenian Seminary (2012), Christians in the Middle East

Federal Bar Council Bench and Bar Retreat (2012), Panelist, "First Amendment: The State of Freedom of Religion in 2012"

Conference on State-Sponsored Religious Displays in the U.S. and Europe, St. John’s University (Rome Campus) and Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta (LUMSA) (2012), Conference Co-Director and Panelist, “State-Sponsored Religious Displays in Comparative Perspective”

Conference on the Changing Faces of Religion and Secularity, Harvard Law School (2012), Crosses and Culture: State-Sponsored Religious Displays in the United States and Europe

Conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools, Touro Law School, Panel on the Place of Law and Religion Institutes in the Law School and the University (2012)

Roundtable on Liberty and the Protestant Reformation, The Liberty Fund (2012) (invited participant)

Fordham Law School Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyers' Work (2012), Sharing Sacred Space in Jerusalem.

First Things Lecture Series (New York) (2012), Equality for Christians in the Middle East: Yesterday and Today.

Religious Legal Theory Conference: The Competing Claims of Law and Religion, Pepperdine University School of Law (2012), Crosses and Culture: Public Religious Symbols in the U.S. and Europe.

St. John's Colloquium on Law and Religion (2012), Colloquium Director (papers by Philip Hamburger, M. Cathleen Kaveny, Michael W. McConnell, Ayelet Shachar, Antonin Scalia, and Joseph H. H. Weiler)

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