Brief Bio

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, religious laws and constitutional law. He is also Director of the Institute of  Law and Religion and Board member of the Center of Islam and Society, both at the University of Fribourg, and Research Fellow at TU Utrecht.

René serves as a counselor of state authorities and religious communities. In his over 100 publications he deals with a large variety of historical topics, state-religion questions in Switzerland, Europe and Asia and with legal questions within the internal catholic and protestant law. He is editor of the book series Freiburger Veröffentlichungen zum Religionsrecht, IR Papers and Europäische Rechts- und Regionalgeschichte.

Courses taught at CTLS

• Legal Pluralism in Action: Religious Marriage Laws and the State (Spring 2022)
• Comparative Constitutional History (Spring 2022, Fall 2016)
• State, Law and Religion (Fall 2016)