Peter Petkoff

Tutorial Fellow in Law and Director of Studies

Regent's Park College

Other affiliations

Faculty of Law

Biography

Dr Peter Petkoff is a Tutorial Law Fellow and a Director of the Religion, Law and International Relations Programme, a collaborative international research network at Regent's Park College, Oxford, and Managing Editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. He is Legal Consultant on Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression for the Representative on Freedom of the Media at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Peter is involved in cutting edge research on the relationship between religion and politics and law and religion. In his capacity as Director of the Religion, Law and International Relations Programme at Regent’s Park College, Oxford, he brings together lawyers, policy makers, theologians, philosophers, social and political scientists and aims to develop innovative interdisciplinary strategies for studying law, religion and international relations from legal and theological perspectives.

He is currently writing a book for Oxford University Press on Holy Sites under International Law.

Through his work, he engages with academics, policy makers, lawyers, religious leaders and think tanks working in the field of religion and public life. In addition to academic his work has had impact on policy makers and on the ways religious communities articulate their public self-perception and their attitude to law, civic values, secularism and to their own internal normative systems. He belongs to several international research networks which study the broader questions of law and religion and religion and politics. He has extensive contacts with human rights lawyers as well as with Jewish, Islamic and Christian lawyers working in this area.

Peter Petkoff has joined Oxford from Brunel University London where as a Reader at the School of Law he has been involved in developing an innovative programme in Intellectual Property Practice an Management for aspiring Patent and Trade Mark attorneys and modules on Philosophical Foundations of Intellectual Property, Comparative and European Media Law and Regulation and International Cultural Heritage Law.

Publications

Journal Article (15)

Ferretti F and Petkoff P, ‘Open Finance and Consumer Protection: Uneasy Bedfellows’ (2022) 11(2) Law and Economics Yearly Review 261

Markov S, White R and Petkoff P, ‘Divine Darkness and Legal Darkness: Apophasis, Cataphasis and the Making of Legal Cultures of the First Millennium’ (2022) 36(1) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale De Sémiotique Juridique 185

Petkoff P, ‘Concordat Agreements Between the Holy See and the Post-Communist Countries (1990-2010) Law and Religion Studies, 8. By Damián Němec’ (2014) 3(1) Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 191

Petkoff P, ‘Sources of CCEO and CIC 83, Kanonika 17. By Piazza S. Maria Maggiore.’ (2013) 2(2) Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 487

Petkoff P, ‘A Gateway Between a Distant God and a Cruel World: The Contribution of Jewish German-Speaking Scholars to International Law. By Reut Yael Paz.’ (2013) 2(2) Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 483

Petkoff P, ‘The Proceedings Against the Templars in the British Isles. Edited by Helen J Nicholson.’ (2013) 2(1) Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 243

Petkoff P, ‘Forum Internum and Forum Externum in Canon Law and Public International Law With a Particular Reference to the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights’ (2012) 7(3) Religion and Human Rights 183

Petkoff P, ‘Augustine and Modern Law. Edited by Richard O. Brooks and James Bernard Murphy’ (2012) 1(2) Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 545

Petkoff P, ‘Islamic Finance. Law and Practice. Edited by C R Nethercott Et Al.’ (2012) 1(2) Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 553

Durham C, Evans M, Ferrari S, and others, ‘Editorial’ (2012) 1(2) Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 317

Durham C, Evans M, Ferrari S, and others, ‘Editorial’ (2012) 1(1) Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 1

Petkoff P, ‘Freedom of Religion or Belief in the Jurisprudence of the Bulgarian Constitutional Court1’ (2008) 36(3) Religion State & Society 225

Evans M and Petkoff P, ‘A Separation of Convenience? The Concept of Neutrality in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights1’ (2008) 36(3) Religion State & Society 205

Petkoff P, ‘Church-State Relations under the Bulgarian Denominations Act 2002: Religious Pluralism and Established Church and the Impact of Other Models of Law on Religion’ (2005) 33(4) Religion State & Society 315

Petkoff P, ‘Being and Becoming: The Human Person and Human Dignity in Charles Malik’s Contribution to the UDHR’ The Review of Faith & International Affairs

Petkoff P, ‘The Byzantine Commonwealth and the Emerging Features of a Law of Nations in the First Millennium’, Christianity and International Law (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2021)

Evans M and Petkoff P, ‘Marginal Neutrality - Neutrality and the Margin of Appreciation in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights’ (2019)

Petkoff P, ‘New Worlds and New Churches The Orthodox Church(es) and the European Union’, GOD AND THE EU: FAITH IN THE EUROPEAN PROJECT (2016)

Petkoff P, ‘Heresy, Orthodoxy and the Interaction Between Canon and Civil Law in Theodore balsamon’s Commentaries’, Heresy and the Making of European Culture: Medieval and Modern Perspectives (2016)

Petkoff P, ‘Heresy, Orthodoxy and the Interaction Between Canon and Civil Law in Theodore Balsamon’s Commentaries’, Heresy and the Making of European Culture: Medieval and Modern Perspectives (2013)

Petkoff P, ‘Religious Symbols Between Forum Internum and Forum Externum’, Law and Religion in the 21st Century: Relations between States and Religious Communities (2010)

Research Interests

Public and Private International Law

Law and Religion

Cultural Heritage Prortection

Human Rights

Media Law

Legal History

Canon Law

Religion and Sustainable Development within the G7 and G20 Agendas

Research projects & programmes

Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre Business Law Research Group Public International Law Research Group Oxford Legal History Forum Business and Human Rights Network & Discussion Group

Options taught

European Union Law

A Roman Introduction to Private Law

Constitutional Law (Mods)