Three Programs, One Architecture

Programs of the Institute

Each program operates under the Founding Commitments in full: standardized outputs, an open-access core, published uniform terms, and no commissioned work.

I · Jurisprudence Lab II · Governance Frameworks III · Risk Monitor

IJurisprudence

The Comparative Jurisprudence Lab

A free, publicly accessible platform consolidating the law of religious liberty in the United States — Supreme Court and federal appellate doctrine, the constitutional and statutory protections of the fifty states, and Title VII with its interpretive materials — together with rigorously sourced documentation of the religious practices that recur in American litigation and workplace administration. Every user, from judicial chambers to a member of the public, consults the identical resource.

Consolidated doctrinal repository — the governing federal and state framework, continuously maintained In development
Fifty-state survey of state constitutional and statutory religious-liberty standards In development
Religious-practice documentation library — sourced, verified context for practices courts and employers encounter In development
Research interface — closed-corpus retrieval design: verified sources only, pinpoint citations, abstention where documentary support is insufficient Phase II

The Lab's comparative dimension is deliberately bounded: U.S. constitutional and statutory authority is the exclusive governing framework for U.S. users; foreign and international materials appear solely as contextual and scholarly resources, consistent with their status in U.S. adjudication.

IIPolicy

Open Governance Frameworks for Religious Pluralism

Standardized, openly licensed governance instruments — model policies, implementation guides, and a replicable structured-dialogue protocol — that any public agency, employer, school system, or healthcare institution can adopt directly, at no cost, without any engagement with the Institute. The instrument is the deliverable; adoption requires nothing from us.

Model Policy Library & implementation guides, annotated to controlling federal and state authority Forthcoming
Replicable Structured-Dialogue Protocol — facilitation guides, stakeholder-mapping tools, and training materials for independent implementation nationwide Forthcoming
Compliance training modules, published under open license for adoption by any institution Forthcoming
Social-Impact Measurement Series — peer-review-oriented research extending established congregational-impact methodologies, with published replication files Forthcoming

Precedent shows instruments of this class achieve national adoption: federal religious-expression guidance certified annually by every school district; model codes drafted by nonprofit institutions and enacted by state legislatures; voluntary open frameworks adopted across sectors without any mandate.

IIIData

The Global Religious-Freedom Risk Monitor

A standardized, published research series documenting where goods, inputs, and investment flows intersect with state-directed religious persecution — organized by the U.S. State Department's own Country of Particular Concern designations, so the research agenda tracks the federal government's stated priorities. Every edition is identical for every reader, on a fixed annual calendar.

Annual Country Risk Volumes for each CPC-designated state, with full evidentiary annexes Vol. 1 forthcoming
Sector Exposure Briefs, aligned to the federal Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force's published high-priority sectors Forthcoming
Open Dataset & Methodology — persecution-exposure indicators, documentation standards, and replication files, released without charge to enforcement agencies, importers, investors, researchers, and journalists Always open

The Monitor is also the Institute's earned-revenue instrument, on the established nonprofit publishing model: the open-access core is free; institutional subscribers receive the full analytical volumes at published, uniform rates. All revenue is reinvested in the Institute's programs.