August 19, 2026 • Professor Mark Hill KC

6:00pm Monday 5th October 2026, University of Exeter (Venue TBA)

(in partnership with the University of Exeter Centre for Ethics and Practical Theology)

In the 2026 Posbury St Francis Trust Lecture, Professor Mark Hill KC will examine the importance of freedom of religion in the current age. Drawing on recent caselaw in the United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, this year’s lecture will consider perceived threats to religious liberty: are they illusory or real?

Professor Mark Hill KC is Global Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, London, and Chancellor of the Dioceses of Chichester, Leeds and Europe. He practises at the Bar in London and for the past eight years has been Vice President of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies.

His publications include Islam, Religious Liberty and Constitutionalism in Europe (2024), Religion and Law in the United Kingdom (2021), The Routledge Handbook on Freedom of Religion or Belief (2020), Christianity and Criminal Law (2020), and Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law (2015).

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