Week

Date

Lecturer

Paper

1

26.2.13

Introductory meeting [registered students only]

2

5.3.13

Critiquing research - an exercise [registered students only]

3

12.3.13

Shai Secunda, The Hebrew University

The Iranian Talmud: The Evolution of Rabbinic Law in its Iranian Context

4

19.3.13

John Langbein, Yale Law School

Why Trial Vanished: The Diverging Paths of Criminal and Civil Justice

5

9.4.13

Anat Rosenberg, Interdisciplinary Center

Varieties Of Liberalism: Nineteenth-Century Contract Between Law, Novels and History

6

23.4.13

Jim Jaffe, University of Wisconsin

The Imagined Panchayat during the Long Nineteenth Century

7

30.4.13

Efrayim Ya'acov, The Hebrew University

Yemenite Jews' Understanding of Islamic Law

8

7.5.13

Ajay Mehrotra, Indiana University, Maurer School of Law

The VAT Laggards: A Comparative Fiscal History of U.S. and Japanese Resistance to the Value-added Tax

9

21.5.13

Guy Seidman, Interdisciplinary Center

The Regulation of Going Abroad during the First Decade of Israeli Independence

10

28.5.13

Rande Kostal, University of Western Ontario

'The Destruction of Philosophies': Allied Planning for the De-Nazification of German Law, 1944-45

11

4.6.13

Ronni Weinstein, The Hebrew University

Rabbi Yosef Caro and Modern Law - the Beit Yosef and Shulkhan Arukh Project

12

11.6.13

Noga Morag-Levine, Michigan State University

Facts, Formalism, and the Brandeis Brief: The Origins of a Myth

13

18.6.13

Amalia Kessler, Stanford law School

Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877