Katayoun Alidadi is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA, and Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Her research focuses on comparative law, human rights, and the intersections of law and religion. She is the author of Religion, Equality and Employment in Europe: the Case for Reasonable Accommodation (Hart, 2017) and co-editor of A Test of Faith: Religious diversity and accommodation in the European workplace (Ashgate, 2012) and Belief, Law and Politics. What Future for a Secular Europe? (Ashgate, 2014). Her newest book is Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity: Analysis, Reception and Challenges (Routledge, 2018, with Marie-Claire Foblets).