[We have the schedule for the Transnational Legal History Workshop, sponsored by the Max Planck Institute and Tel Aviv University. DRE]
The Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History at The Buchmann
Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, and the Max-Planck-Institute for
Legal History and Legal Theory will continue the joint MPI-TAU
Transnational Legal History Workshop in the Fall Semester 2023/2024.
The
workshop will meet from 19:00-20:30 (Frankfurt time) and 20:00-21:30
(Tel Aviv time). This year's organizers and moderators are Leora Bilsky
(TAU), Thomas Duve (MPI), Rachel Friedman (TAU), David Schorr (TAU), and
Stefan Vogenauer (MPI).
Sessions will be conducted on Zoom and
will be based on pre-circulated papers. The papers will be sent to each
participant one week in advance.
Registration for participation is required: mpitauwkshp@gmail.com
6 December Assaf Likhovski (TAU)
Studying Ancient Constitutional Law in Colonial India and Mandatory Palestine
13 December Jan-Henrik Meyer (MPILHLT)
European Community Environmental Law in the 1970s: Combatting Water Pollution
20 December Noga Morag-Levine (Michigan State University)
England’s Missing Boards of Health: The Medieval Beginnings of an Anglo-Continental Divergence
10 January Alon Jasper (TAU)
Transforming a Polity into an Economy: The Five Nations and the Railroads, 1855-1894
17 January Raquel Sirotti (MPILHLT)
State-like powers? Charter Companies and the production of knowledge of normativity in Mozambique (1891-1942)
24 January Egas Moniz Bandeira (FAU)
Changing Legal Professions in China, Japan, and the Ottoman Empire in the long 19th century: Towards a Historical Comparison
31 January Aparna Balachandran (Delhi University)
Religion, Law and Urban Governance: Subaltern Christians as Legal Subjects in Early Colonial South India
7 February Cristiano Paixão (University of Brasília)
Transnational legal mobilization: repressive structures and networks of resistance in S. American dictatorships (1964-1988)
14 February Julia Moses (University of Sheffield)
Harmonizing the Family? International Law, Cultural Norms and Marriage at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
21 February Sarina Kuersteiner (Union College)
Whatever God Gives: Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Rizq and Latin Resicum in Commercial Vocabulary, 1154-1164 CE
