The vice dean of the Faculty of Law, Montserrat Gas, and the International Law lecturer, Maria Mut, participated in the sixth International Congress of the European Academy of Religion: Religion from the Inside, which took place from 19 to 23 June at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). They were both part of a specific panel discussion on law and religion. 

Montserrat Gas spoke on freedom of religious expression, gender and hate speech, analysing the pronouncements of European jurisprudence in relation to the complaints against various religious authorities for alleged homophobic messages. Professor Gas highlighted to what extent religious teachings can be legally classified as “hate speech” or are simply part of the public debate in a pluralistic society.

Lecturer Maria Mut, for her part, analysed EU gender policies in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. She focused on the concept analysis of sex and gender, and their inclusion in the fundamental treaties of the EU. Mut concluded that only the term sex, and not gender, is part of the legal texts binding on the European Union, wherefore gender policies go beyond the commitments made by the Member States.
 
Both UIC Barcelona teachers participated in this international event as members of the competitive project “Igualdad de Género y creencias en el marco de la Agenda 2030” [Gender Equality and Beliefs in the framework of the 2030 Agenda] ((PID2020-114400GB-I00)), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation.