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Law in Transition XXIst Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians 6th Berg Institute International Conference Tel Aviv, 1–3 March 2015 PROGRAM The Buchmann Faculty of Law XXIst Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians 6th Berg Institute International Conference With the support of The Cegla Center for the Interdisciplinary Research of Law Entin Faculty of Humanities Yavetz Graduate School of Historical Studies Organizing Committee David Schorr (Chair) Omer Aloni Yael Braudo-Bahat Doreen Lustig Dina Moyal Anat Rosenberg Administrative Organizers Michal Marziano Aya Shalom Yarden Shir Dalit Wasserman-Amir Seffi Weintraub XXIst Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians 6th Berg Institute International Conference Tel Aviv, 1–3 March 2015 PROGRAM Sunday, 1 March 2015 8:00-8:45 Breakfast and registration 9:00-9:50 Gathering (Kes Hamishpat Hall) Greetings Dr. David Schorr, Director, David Berg Institute for Law and History, Tel Aviv University Prof. Raanan Rein, Vice President, Tel Aviv University Keynote Prof. Shai Lavi, Tel Aviv University, The Bleeding Cut: Jews, Muslims, and Animal Slaughter in German History 10:00-11:30 Session I Panel 1: Law, Family, and Culture (Room 304) Panel 2: Roman Law in Transition (Room 307) 11:30-12:00 Coffee break 12:00-13:30 Session II Panel 3: Medieval Transitions (Room 303) Panel 4: Economy, Society, and Law (Early Modern) (Room 307) Panel 5: When Code Napoléon Traveled (Room 304) 13:30-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:00 Session III Panel 6: Early Modern Political Struggles (Room 303) Panel 7: Codification: From Common Law to Civil Law, and Back (Room 307) Panel 8: Criminal Law in Transition (Room 304) 16:30 Departure by bus to Beit Ha’ir (the Old City Hall of Tel Aviv) 17:00-18:00 Opening Cocktail (Beit Ha’ir) Greetings Asaf Zamir, First Deputy Mayor, Tel Aviv - Yafo Keynote Prof. Assaf Likhovski, Tel Aviv University, What Can Bialik Street Teach Us about Law in Transition? PROGRAM 18:00-18:30 Tour at Beit Ha’ir 18:30-20:00 Walking tour in the “White City” (Bauhaus center) at Tel Aviv 20:00-22:00 Dinner at Maganda restaurant 22:00 Bus back to the dorms Monday, 2 March 2015 8:00-8:45 Breakfast 9:00-9:25 Keynote (Kes Hamishpat Hall) Prof. Leora Bilsky, Tel Aviv University, Business History and Transitional Justice: The Case of Transnational Holocaust Litigation 9:30-11:00 Session IV Panel 9: Socialist Law in Eastern Europe (Room 304) Panel 10: Histories of International Law (Room 307) 11:00-11:30 Coffee break 11:30-13:00 Session V Panel 11: Legal Theory in Historical Context (Room 304) Panel 12: Legal Transplants, and Colonization (Room 307) 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Session VI Panel 13: Ideology, Totalitarianism, and Law (Room 304) Panel 14: Israel: From Mandate to Statehood (Room 307) Panel 15: Public Law History (Room 303) 15:30-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-17:30 Session VII Panel 16: Human and Labor Rights (Room 304) Panel 17: Codification as National Identity (Room 307) 17:30-17:45 Coffee break 17:45-18:30 Closing Assembly (Kes Hamishpat Hall) Concluding Remarks Prof. Ron Harris, Dean, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University Annual Meeting of the Association of Young Legal Historians Free evening Tuesday, 3 March 2015 8:15 Gathering near Broshim dorms 8:30 Leaving by bus from the dorms to Jerusalem 10:00-16:30 Tour of Jerusalem 18:00 Back in Tel Aviv (with a stop at the airport) Keynotes Sunday 9:00 | Kes Hamisphat Hall n Shai Lavi, Tel Aviv University The Bleeding Cut: Jews, Muslims, and Animal Slaughter in German History Sunday 17:00 | Beit Ha’ir n Assaf Likhovski, Tel Aviv University What Can Bialik Street Teach Us about Law in Transition? Monday 9:00 | Kes Hamisphat Hall n Leora Bilsky, Tel Aviv University Business History and Transitional Justice: The Case of Transnational Holocaust Litigation Shai Lavi | is a Professor of Law, and the director of the newly founded Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the co-director of the Minerva Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of End of Life both at Tel Aviv University. He received his Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, University of California Berkeley. His book The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States (Princeton University Press) won the 2006 Distinguished Book Award in sociology of law from the American Sociological Association. He was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Berkeley, California, a visiting professor at Toronto University and at Cardozo Law School, and a Humboldt fellow at the Dubnow Instittue for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig and at the faculty of law at the Humboldt University, Berlin. He is currently working on the history of Jews and Muslims in Germany focusing on the debate on animal slaughter rituals. He is a member of the National Helsinki Committee (IRB) for Medical Research. He is also a member on the editorial board of two of the leading American journals in his field, Law and Society Review and Law, Culture and Humanities Journal. Assaf Likhovski | is the Associate Dean for Research. He is the author of Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), which was awarded the Yonathan Shapiro Best Book Award in Israel Studies, as well as articles on Israeli, American and English legal history. He is co-editor of a number of collections of articles on legal history including „Histories of Legal Transplantations“ Theoretical Inquiries in Law 10 (2009) (with Ron Harris). He is currently working on a book on taxation, law and modernity in British-ruled Palestine and Israel. He was visiting professor at Cardozo Law School, distinguished visiting professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and visiting professor at UCLA Law School and History Department. He is a graduate of Tel Aviv University and Harvard Law School, where he was a Fulbright and Rothschild fellow. He was later a Golieb fellow at the NYU School of Law, a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem and is currently an adjunct senior research fellow in the Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University. He was co-founder of the Israeli Legal History Association, established in 2005, and the former director of the David Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History, and the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, both at Tel- Aviv University Faculty of Law. Leora Bilsky | is a Full Professor at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, and the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University. She earned her LL.B cum laude from Hebrew University and an LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School (where she held a Fulbright award). She clerked for the Honorable Aharon Barak on Israel’s supreme court. She was a Visiting Professor at Toronto University and Amherst College, and a fellow in „Ethics and the Professions“ at Harvard University. She has served as Editor in Chief of the political theory journal Theory and Criticism, and as editor of law journals Mishpatim, Iyunei Mispat and Theoretical Inquiries in Law. She is the author of Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial (Michigan University Press, 2004), and The Holocaust, Corporations and the Law (forthcoming, Michigan University Press). 3 Panel no. 1 Law, Family and Culture Sunday 10:00-11:30 | Room 304 Inbal Blau (Chair), Tel Aviv University, Israel n Yael Braudo-Bahat, Tel Aviv University, Israel Family Law in Transitional Eras: Legislative Initiatives of Israeli Women’s Organizations at the First Years of Statehood n Ayelet Libson, Tel Aviv University, Israel Beyond the Fault Line: Transitions in Rabbinic Divorce Law n Gang Luo, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Legal Conservatism in the Process of Legal Transformation in East Asia under the Influence of Western Laws: a Comparative Observation on Modernization of Family Law in China and Japan n Nadav Knaan, Haifa University, Israel The Traditional Property System of the Southeastern Indians during the 17th and 18th Centuries Yael Braudo-Bahat | A Ph.D. candidate at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University and the Associate Editor of Theoretical Inquiries in Law. Her research, under the supervision of Prof. Leora Bilsky, focuses on the involvement of Israeli women’s organizations in the enactment of the Israeli Spouses Law (Property Relations) in 1973. Along with the historical analysis, she theorizes the connection between the various possible regimes of marital property and the autonomy of the spouses within a functioning family. Ayelet Libson | A postdoctoral fellow at the David Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History at Tel Aviv University. She holds a B.A. with honors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and earned her Ph.D. at New York University. Her research interests concentrate on Jewish law, legal history, legal theory, and the relationship between religion and state. Gang Luo | A PhD candidate in Law at University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has previously obtained a Master of Laws from China University of Political Science and Law in China, a Master en Droit from Paris Descartes University in France, an LL.M.from Saarland University in Germany. The conclusion of his doctoral thesis is expected this very year. Nadav Knaan | LLB (2006) and LLM (2008) in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Law Faculty), PhD candidate in Haifa University (Faculty of Law). Served as a law clerk for 6 years in the Jerusalem District Court, and currently works as a legal advisor in the Israeli Ministry of Justice.