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Program in Law, Religion and Culture
University at Buffalo Law School
O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
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The Law, Religion and Culture Program at the University at Buffalo focuses on the multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural study of the intersection of law, religion, society and culture.

Law and religion are present in all human societies. Law and religion are also cultural products. We seek to understand how these two powerful social and cultural sets of ideas, practices, and institutions have come to be seen as separate and how they interact and have interacted and recombined in diverse ways across space and time. What is distinctive about the program at Buffalo is that it is the very pluralism, openness and contingency of law and religion and their interrelationship that engages a very diverse set of scholars, historians, anthropologists, social theorists, sociologists, and lawyers.