The Institute for Advanced Studies of Jerusalem and the Cegal Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law at Tel Aviv University will be hosting an international conference, titled "Histories of Legal Transplantations," on June 11-13, 2008. The Conference's Website: http://www.as.huji.ac.il/conferences/legal/
The program follows:
International Conference
Histories of Legal Transplantations
June 11-13, 2008
Organizers: Ron Harris and Assaf Likhovski
Program:
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Institute for Advanced Studies of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Room 115
0900-1000
The Transplantation of British Company Law in Post-Ottoman Palestine
Ron Harris (with Michael Crystal), Tel Aviv
Comment: David Schorr, Tel Aviv
1000-1100
Argonauts of the Eastern Mediterranean: Legal Transplants and Signaling
Assaf Likhovski, Tel Aviv
Comment: Ariel Porat, Tel Aviv
1100-1130
Coffee-Break
1130-1230
From Divine Providence to the Rock of Israel: Two Declarations of Independence
Yoram Shachar, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
Comment: Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv
1230-1330
Transplants and Timing: Passages in the Creation of an Anglo-American Law of Slavery
Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation
Comment: Eran Shalev, Haifa
1330-1345
Greetings: Eliezer Rabinovici, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study of Jerusalem
1345-1530
Lunch
1530-1630
American Moments: Toward a History of American Influence on Israeli legal Education
Pnina Lahav, Boston
Comment: Celia Fassberg, Hebrew University
1630-1730
Is Anglo-American Law Common or Comparative? A Study in the Transplant of Equitable Doctrine.
Joshua Getzler, Oxford
Comment: Richard Ross, Illinois
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Institute for Advanced Studies of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Room 115
0900-1000
Deciding Against Conciliation: The Nineteenth-Century Rejection of a European
Transplant and the Rise of a Distinctively American Ideal of Adversarial Adjudication
Amalia D. Kessler, Stanford
Comment: Issi Rozen-Zvi, Tel Aviv
1000-1100
Constitutional Transplants
Morton J. Horwitz, Harvard
Comment: William J. Novak, Chicago
1100-1130
Coffee Break
1130-1230
The British, Indian and Pakistani Sources of the Israeli Absentee Property Act of 1950.
Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, Haifa
Comment: Adam Hofri, Hebrew University
1230-1330
The Invention of Legal Primitivism
Steven Wilf, Connecticut
Comment: Roy Kreitner, Tel Aviv
1330-1530
Lunch
1530-1630
Race, Marriage and Sovereignty in the New World Order
Jane Dailey, Chicago
Comment: Eyal Benvenisti, Tel Aviv
1630-1730
The Concept of Law: A Western Transplant
Jean-Louis Halperin, ENS, Paris
Comment: Arye Edrei, Tel Aviv
Friday, June 13, 2008
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, Room 307
0930-0945
Greetings: Hanoch Dagan, Dean, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
0945-1045
Foreign Law between "Grand Hazard" and Great Irritation: The Bulgarian Experience after 1878
Jani Kirov, Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt
Comment: Avi Rubin, Ben-Gurion University
1045-1145
Legal Transplants and the Frontiers of Legal Knowledge
Michele Graziadei, Piemonte Orientale.
Comment: Nir Kedar, Bar Ilan University
1145-1215
Coffee-Break
1215-1315
The "Transformative Constitution": Treatment Action Campaign and the Politics of Social Rights in South Africa
William Forbath, Texas
Barak Medina, Hebrew University
1315-1330 Concluding remarks
1330-1430
Lunch
Administrative Organization:
Ms. Efrat Shvili
The Institute for Advanced Studies of Jerusalem
Givat Ram
Jerusalem
Tel: 972-2- 6586931
Email: efrat@ias.huji.ac.il
Support for this conference has been provided by the Paula Goldberg Foundation
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