Tel Aviv University Law and History Workshop

Tel Aviv University Legal History Workshop, sponsored by the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, is the only workshop of its kind in Israel. The workshop, which will celebrate its tenth anniversary next year, is designed to serve as a forum in which legal historians can present works in progress. It provides a unique institutional forum for the whole legal-history community in Israel. The workshop is the place where all Israeli legal historians, working in law schools, history departments and social science faculties, meet, present works in progress and interact with foreign colleagues. The workshop also provides TAU students (including many LL.M. and Doctoral students) with the opportunity to read and comment on state-of-the-art legal history articles, serving as the capstone of TAU's exceptional legal history curriculum. This curriculum provides students with special in-depth training in legal history and includes preliminary courses, elective courses and seminars and the workshop.

The workshop's scope is not limited temporally, geographically or methodologically. Papers presented deal with all periods (ancient, medieval and modern) and all geographical areas (Israel but also the United States, Britain, the continental and Islamic law worlds). The workshop also seeks to present a broad variety of disciplinary approaches to legal history and including economics, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies.

Over the years, the workshop has spawned a number of important institutional and academic projects related to legal history including several Israeli and international academic conferences, special journal issues on legal history and, most recently, the creation of a nation-wide Israeli legal history association, which is now in its third year.

Appendix:

List of Speakers 1997-2006

1997/1998 (Organized by Assaf Likhovski)

Gadi Algazi Tel Aviv University Department of History

Esther Cohen, Hebrew University Department of History

Nimrod Hurwitz, Ben Gurion University Department of Middle Eastern History

Iris Agmon, Ben Gurion University Department of Middle Eastern History

1998/1999 (Organized by Ron Harris & Assaf Likhovski)

Ron Shaham, Hebrew University School of Law

Yifat Holzman-Gazit, Bar Ilan University School of Law

Morton Horwitz, Harvard Law School

Laura Kalman, University of California Santa Barbara

Yoram Shachar, IDC, Herzliya

Pnina Lahav, Boston University School of Law

Eben Moglen, Columbia Univesity Law School

1999/2000 (Organized by Ron Harris & Assaf Likhovski)

Yoram Shachar, IDC, Herzliya

Joshua Getzler, St. Hugh's College, Oxford

Reva Siegel, Yale Law School

Asher Maoz, Tel Aviv University School of Law

David Lieberman, University of California, Berkeley

Mavae Marcus, US Supreme Court Documentary History Project

Guy Bechor, IDC, Herzliya

Jose Brunner, Tel Aviv University School of Law

Leora Bilsky, Tel Aviv University School of Law

Dan Klarman, University of Southern California School of Law

Michael Stanislawski, Columbia University History Department

2000/2001 (Organized by Ron Harris & Assaf Likhovski)

Guy Seidman, IDC, Herzliya

Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation

Tali Margalit University of California, Berkeley

Tal Golan, Ben Gurion University

Leon Shelef, Tel Aviv University School of Law

Daphne Barak-Erez, Tel Aviv University School of Law

Arye Edrai, Tel Aviv University School of Law

Nir Kedar, Bar Ilan University

Menachem Mautner, Tel Aviv University School of Law

Bernard Jackson, Manchester University Center for Jewish Studies

Ariela Gross, University of Southern California Law School

2001/2002 (Organized by Ron Harris & Assaf Likhovski)

Sandy Kedar, Law, Haifa University School of Law

Yoram Shachar, IDC Herzliya

Laura Kalman, University of California at Santa Barbara Department of History

Yifat Holzman, Bar Ilan University

Oren Bracha, Harvard Law School

Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University History Department

Nathan Brun, Hebrew University

Yigal Halfin, Tel Aviv University History Department

Roy Kreitner, Tel Aviv University School of Law

Haim Zandberg, Hebrew University School of Law

2002/3 (Organized by Ron Harris & Leora Bilsky)

Jack Rakove, Stanford University

Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation

Arye Edrai, Tel Aviv University Law School

Shai Lavi, Tel Aviv University School of Law, Noya Rimalt, Haifa University School of Law

Hemda Gur Arye, Tel Aviv University School of Law

Alan Rosen, University of Pennsylvania

Guy Seidman, IDC Herzliya

Deborah Bernstein, Haifa University sociology department

Melech Westreich, Tel Aviv University School of Law

Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University Department of Jewish History

2003/4 (Organized by Assaf Likhovski & Leora Bilsky)

Nir Kedar, Bar Ilan University School of Law

Ruti Teitel, New York Law School

David De Vries, Tel Aviv University Department of Labor Relations

Shai Lavi, Tel Aviv University School of Law

Nathan Brun, Hebrew University

Joshua Getzler, St. Hugh’s College Oxford

Steve Bank, UCLA School of Law

Jonathan Zasloff, UCLA School of Law

2005 (Organized by Leora Bilsky, Ron Harris & Assaf Likhovski)

Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation

Amichai Radziner, Bar Ilan University Law School

Neta Ziv, Tel Aviv University Law School

Shimon Blum, Tel Aviv University Law School & Sapir College

Daphne Barak-Erez, Tel Aviv University Law School

Sandy Kedar, Haifa University Law School

Rebecca Wittmann, University of Toronto History Department

Arye Edrai, Tel Aviv University Law School

Michael Stein, William & Mary and Harvard

Amalia Kesler, Stanford University

2006 (Organized by Leora Bilsky, Ron Harris & Assaf Likhovski)

David Schorr, Tel Aviv University Law School

Vicky Woeste, American Bar Foundation, Chicago

Steven Wilf, University of Connecticut Law School

Moussa Abu Ramadan, Haifa University Law School

Suzanne Last Stone, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva U., New York

Alon Harel, Hebrew University School of Law

Ido Shachar, TAU Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Rainer Schröder, Humboldt-University, Berlin