Legal status of religion teachers in public schools in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Abstract

This paper studies the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the legal status of teachers of religion in public schools. This will allow us to know to what extent the responses of the courts, whose main mission is to safeguard human rights in their respective regional contexts, are based on similar approaches or whether, on the contrary, they point in different directions, as well as the arguments that support their respective positions.