March 10-11, 2013

Zionism and Law Sunday, March 10 Monday, March 11 Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203 Friend Center Convocation Room

10:00 – 10:30 am 9:00 – 11:00 am Religious Zionism (I) Welcome, Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University Chair: Moulie Vidas, Princeton University Opening Remarks, Suzanne Last Stone, Cardozo School Arye Edrei, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law of Law Who is a Jew, Who was a Jew and Who Should be a Jew: Israeli Law and Jewish Law in Dialogue 10:30 am –12:30 pm Early Zionism and Law Ilan Fuchs, Brandeis University National Movements and International Law: The Case of Religious Chair: Yaacob Dweck, Princeton University Zionism in Israel Yehudah Mirsky, Brandeis University Respondent: Chaim Saiman, Villanova School of Law Notes Towards a Gordonian Halakha Olga Litvak, Clark University 11:15 am – 1:15 pm Religious Zionism (II) Out of the Study House: Jewish Legal Consciousness and the Zionist Chair: Naphtali Meshel, Princeton University Revolution in Late Imperial Russia Amihai Radzyner, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law Respondent: Jonathan Gribetz, Rutgers University The Influence of Secular Law on the Halakhic Process: The Problematic Case of Contemporary Israeli Rabbinical Courts 1:30 – 3:30 pm Law in Israeli Politics Alexander Kaye, Princeton University Chair: Leslie Gerwin, Princeton University Legal Centralism and Religious Zionism Respondent: Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University Pnina Lahav, Boston University School of Law Golda Meir and the Status of Shabbat in the early 1950s 2:00 – 4:00 pm Israeli Constitutionalism Assaf Likhovski, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law Chair: Samuel Goldman, Princeton University Zionism, Law and Social Norms: The Case of Taxation in Mandatory Or Bassok, Yale Law School Palestine and Israel in the 1940s and 1950s Israel’s Constitutional Identity Respondent: Liora Halperin, Princeton University James Loeffler,University of Virginia The Natural Right of the Jewish People: Zionism, International Law, 4:00 – 7:30 pm Film: The Law in These Parts and the Paradox of Hersch Lauterpacht McCormick Hall 106 Respondent: Arthur Jacobson, Cardozo School of Law Discussants: Steven Wilf, University of Connecticut School of Law 4:30 – 5:30 pm Concluding Roundtable Daniel Kurtzer, Princeton University Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University Ronald Zweig, New York University Cathleen Kaveny, Notre Dame Law School Suzanne Last Stone, Cardozo School of Law

Open to students and faculty of Princeton University. RSVP to Polly Strauss [email protected]. SPONSORED BY Tikvah Project at Princeton, Program in Judaic Studies and Cardozo School of Law