Berkley Center

Kevin Vance is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Notre Dame and was a summer 2015 doctoral fellow with the Religious Freedom Project. Vance's research considers religious liberty jurisprudence from a comparative perspective. It places the modern US Supreme Court’s religion clauses jurisprudence in dialogue with several alternatives, including the earlier American natural-rights approach, the Canadian Supreme Court’s approach grounded on human autonomy, and the German Constitutional Court’s approach that grounds religious freedom on the dignity of the human person. Vance holds an M.A. in political science from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. in government from Claremont McKenna College.