Dr. Dmytro Vovk is a visiting professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He also runs the Center for the Rule of Law and Religion Studies at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Ukraine and teaches law at Ukrainian Catholic University. He was a Kenan-Fulbright fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a visiting researcher at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, and a visitor at Northwestern’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Vovk has delivered guest lectures and talks at University of Oxford, Northwestern University, the Pennsylvania State University, University of Alberta, University of Padua, University of Warsaw, University of Groningen, Central European University, and the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics.

Vovk has been a rule of law, constitutional law, and religious freedom expert for several international institutions, including the UN Population Fund, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, UN Independent Expert on SOGI issues, the OSCE, and the USAID. He also testified before the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. As an international religious freedom expert, he has been involved in trainings; interfaith dialogue programs; and meetings for state officials, civil society, and religious leaders in Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, the Balkan countries, and Ukraine.

He has advised and submitted FoRB-related amicus briefs to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, the Supreme Court of Ukraine, and the Ukrainian State Agency for Ethnic Policies and Freedom of Conscience. He has also contributed to the joint opinion of the OSCE/ODIHR and Venice Commission on Uzbekistan’s draft law on freedom of conscience and religious organizations. Since 2019, Vovk has been a member of the OSCE/ODIHR Expert Panel on Freedom of Religion or Belief, where he coordinates the working group on freedom of religion or belief and gender.

He has published extensively on the rule of law in post-Soviet countries and law and religion. He co-edited with Elizabeth A. Clark the volume Religion During the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict (Routledge 2019), which the Journal of Contemporary Religion called “a much-needed English introduction to a thorny set of religious, political, juridical, and related problems concerning the Eastern Ukrainian conflict.” He also co-edits the ICLRS blog Talk About: Law and Religion. Currently Dmytro is writing a book on religious freedom and national security issues.