Tel Aviv University Law and History Workshop
Fall 2020
Thursdays, 14:15 – 15:45
Organized by: Rachel Friedman, Ron Harris & Assaf Likhovski
Nov. 5, 2020, Jedidiah Kroncke, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, The Harvard Model as Domestic and International Export: A Translocal Movement of Elite Legal Integration
Nov. 12, 2020, Yair Lorberbaum, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law, The Rise of Halakhic Religiosity of Mystery and Transcendence [paper and discussion in Hebrew]
Nov. 19, 2020, Aviram Shahal, Michigan Law School, From Konstitutzya to Huka: The Adoption of a Hebrew Term for a Constitution [discussion in Hebrew]
Nov. 26, 2020, Vanessa Ogle, University of California, Berkeley, Department of History, “Funk Money:” The End of Empires, the Expansion of Tax Havens, and Decolonization as an Economic and Financial Event
Dec. 3, 2020, Rowan Dorin, Stanford University, Department of History, The Bishop as Lawmaker in Late Medieval Europe
Dec. 10, 2020, Geraldine Gudefin, American University Department of History & Tel Aviv University, Berg Institute, “An Innocent Candor that Left No Doubt as to her Sincerity”: East European Jewish Women and Jewish Law in Early 20th-Century American Courts”
Dec. 17, 2020, Emily Kadens, Northwestern Law School, “The Dark Side of Commerce: Trust, Reputation, and Cheating in Early Modern England.”
Dec. 24, 2020, Idit Ben Or, Tel Aviv University Safra Center, Non-Governmental Currencies in Early Modern England: A Legal Analysis [discussion in Hebrew]
Dec. 31, 2020, Julie Cooper, Tel Aviv University, Department of Political Science, The Zionist Critique of Spinoza’s Politics [discussion in Hebrew]
Jan. 7, 2020, Adam Lebovitz, Cambridge University Faculty of History, Freedom of the Press between the American and French Revolutions
*** All sessions of the workshop will take place on Zoom. We have a limited number of slots available in each session for visitors. Anyone who is interested in participating in a particular session must register in advance by sending an email to rachelf3@tauex.tau.ac.il. ***
