In Spring 2012, Jean Cohen, the Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization in the Core Curriculum, will lecture on religion and legal pluralism at Reid Hall, the Columbia Global Center in Paris. While there, she will conduct research comparing the French and American models of the recognition of religion, on legal pluralism, and on establishment and the civic state.  She will also organize the conference “Religion, Legal Pluralism, and Human Rights: European and Transatlantic Perspectives,” May 30-31, 2012, at Reid Hall, sponsored by IRCPL. She will assisted by Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, a doctoral candidate in political science at Columbia University.