We have the schedule, subject to change, for the MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop for the Fall Semester, 2021-2022. The workshop meets Tuesdays 19.00-20.30 (Frankfurt time) and 20:00-21:30 (Tel Aviv time). Its organizers and moderators are Thomas Duve (MPI), David Schorr (TAU), and Stefan Vogenauer (MPI). Sessions will be conducted on Zoom, and based on pre-circulated papers. To join or receive more information, please email mpitauwkshp@gmail.com.
19 October James Whitman (Yale)
From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: Imagining Ownership in the Western World
26 October Jake Subryan Richards (LSE)
The Warfare Origins of the Anti-Slave-Trade Legal Regime in the Atlantic World
2 November Elisabetta Fiocchi (Zurich)
Transnational Entanglements in Land Law and Land Registration in the 19th Century
9 November Philip Bajon, Victoria Barnes & Emily Whewell (MPI)
Global Legal Biography
16 November Manuel Bastias Saavedra (MPI)
Global History and a Decentered History of Law
23 November Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (Harvard)
Rabbinic Responsa and Legal Communication
30 November Heikki Pihlajamäki (Helsinki)
Transnational Elements in Colonial Laws: Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands
7 December Jessica Marglin (USC)
Nationality Across the Mediterranean: Jews, Islamic Law, and Belonging in Tunisia
14 December David Schorr (TAU)
The Society of Comparative Legislation and the Systemization of Legal Circulation
4 January Rabiat Akande (Osgoode)
Decolonization by Codification: The Making of the 1958 Penal Code in Late Colonial Nigeria
11 January Paul du Plessis (Edinburgh)
The Limits of Legal History
--Dan Ernst
