René Pahud de Mortanges

Curriculum

René Pahud de Mortanges is Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he teaches legal history, state-religion relationships and religious laws. He also serves as Director of the Institute of Law and Religion, and as Co-Director of the Center of Islam and Society, both at the University of Fribourg. He is Research Fellow at Renmin University in Bejing, Guest Professor at ECUPL in Shanghai and Visiting Research Professor at TU Kampen (NL). He serves as well as a counselor to state authorities and churches.

In fall 2016 René was faculty member at CTLS.

In his publications René deals with a large variety of historical topics, state-religion questions in Switzerland, Europe and in Asia and with legal questions within the internal catholic and protestant law. He is editor of the collections Freiburger Veröffentlichungen zum Religionsrecht and Europäische Rechts- und Regionalgeschichte and member of the board of several international research institutions.

Publications

A complete listing of Prof. René Pahud de Mortanges publications can be found here.