Dr. Ron Harris

Law and History Workshop

The law and history workshop is a combined faculty and students workshop. The goal of the workshop is to present the variety of research issues and methodologies that legal historians use and to offer a forum in which legal historians can present their work in progress. The workshop meets every two weeks throughout the academic year. Each session is devoted to a legal history paper presented by an Israeli or non-Israeli historian of law. The participants of the workshop (undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members) read the papers in advance and offer written and oral comments on them. The workshop is sponsored by the Cegla Institute for Comparative and Private International Law and is organized by Ron Harris and Assaf Likhovski.

In the academic year 1999/2000 the following legal scholars and historians presented their papers at the workshop: Yoram Shachar, IDC, Herzliyya; 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, Herzliyya; 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.

In the academic year 2000/2001 the following legal scholars and historians presented their papers at the workshop: 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.