Past Symposia, Workshops & Forums
International Guest-Lecturer: Dr. Tatiana Borisova on "The Autocratic Tradition of Law in Russia: What is So Special About it and Why Does it Matter?"
Mon, December 30, 2013
The David Berg Institute and The Israeli Inter‐University Academic Partnership in Russian and Eastern European Studies co-hosted a public lecture featuring Dr. Tatiana Borisova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia. The lecture was part of a broader effort by the Berg Institute to expand the horizons of legal history research in Israel, beyond the Anglo‐American legal world.
International Conference on Judging Human Rights Violations: Pondering Past and Future after Kiobel
Sun-Mon, December 15-16, 2013
The Buchmman Faculty of Law's David Berg Institute, The Minerva Center for Human Rights, and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah hosted a panel-based conference entitled: "Judging Human Rights Violations: Pondering Past and Future after Kiobel". The two-day event included various talks and discussions focusing on the global and national legal ramifications of the Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. class action trail. The conference continues a 2012 workshop on the same topic, also supported by the Berg Institute.
10 Years Later: An Evening of Remembrance and Reflection on Prof. Leon Sheleff's Work
Wed, December 4, 2013
The David Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History and The Minerva Center for Human Rights of the Buchmann Faculty of Law, co-hosted along with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences, a commemorative Evening in Honor of the late professor of Law and Sociology, Leon Sheleff. The public event took place at the Malka Brender Hall of Justice (Kes Hamishpat), Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, and included remarks and speeches and remarks by professors of Tel Aviv University, from various schools and disciplines.
Event Invitation in Hebrew (PDF).
Book Symposium: Dina Zilber, In the Name of the Law: The Attorney General and the Affairs that Shook Israel
Wed, November 6, 2013
The symposium marked the publication of a new book by Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber on the biographies of Israeli Attorneys Generals since the founding of Israel in 1948.
Commentators included: Justice Uzi Fogelman, Israeli Supreme Court, Mr. Gideon Saar, Minister of the Interior, Prof. Yishai Blank, Vice Dean, TAU Buchmann Faculty of Law, Prof. Nir Kedar, Dean, Sapir Academic College School of Law and Dr. Michal Shaked, TAU Buchmann Faculty of Law. The event was co-hosted by the David Berg Institute, and The Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research.
Event Invitation in Hebrew (PDF).
Webcasts of the symposium are available here.
The 9th Annual Israeli History & Law Association Conference: "History, Rights and Law" (In Cooperation with The Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Institute)
Mon, September 30, 2013
Conference Program (in Hebrew).
David Berg Summer School for Young Legal Historians
Sun-Mon, June 23-24, 2013
The David Berg Insttiute held, for the second consecutive year, a two‐day "summer school" at the Shfayim Conference Center, located north of Tel Aviv. The event was designed to provide a forum in which young legal historians – advanced graduate students and young untenured faculty – can present their research projects and receive comments from leading legal historians. Three leading American legal historians - Prof. Amalia Kessler (Stanford University), Prof. Christopher Tomlins (University of California Irvine) and Prof. Steven Wilf (University of Connecticut) - arrived to Tel Aviv to discuss some major historiographical debates on the writing of legal history and comment on the works of the Israeli participants.
The Mandate Law Forum: A Workshop on the League of Nations
Wed, May 8, 2013
Columbia University Ph.D. Student Natasha Wheatley presented a paper entitled "Mandatory Interpretation: Legal Hermeneutics and the New International Order in Arab and Jewish Petitions to the League of Nations.” The workshop was organized and run by Dr. David Schorr from the Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University.
The Forum on Law, Globalization and the Transnational Sphere Symposium:
"Comparative Legal Histories of Race Relations in South America"
Tue, April 30, 2013
This unique symposium brought together two leading historians of American and Latin American law, University of Virginia's History Prof. Brian Owensby and University of Southern California's Law Prof. Ariela Gross, to discuss comparative and transnational legal histories of the early modern and modern periods. It was organized as a part of TAU Law's Forum on Law, Globalization and the Transnational Sphere.
"Why Trial Vanished: The Diverging Paths of Criminal and Civil Justice", A Public Lecture by Prof. John H. Langbein, Yale Law School
Sun, March 18, 2013
Prof. Langbein, Yale Law School Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History, is one of the world’s leading legal historians and is an internationally-renowned authority on fiduciary law. Prof. Langbein’s talk, on the history of the trial in Anglo-American and Continental law and its gradual decline in both legal families, was sponsored by the David Berg Institute in collaboration with the Taubenschlag Institute for Criminal Law, and was attended by legal historians and criminal law scholars from all over the country.
Conference on the Legal and Historical Aspects of the Welfare State
Mon, February 4, 2013
This was the second annual conference designed to bring together Israeli legal and general historians to demonstrate how legal history can contribute to the study of the country’s political, social and economic history. It was organized by the David Berg Institute in collaboration with the Tel Aviv University Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel and hosted by the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Humanities. The conference included four panels. Each of the first three included two legal historians, and a chair and commentator who were general historians. The last session was a roundtable panel with three leading senior scholars, chaired by the doyen of Israeli historians, Anita Shapira.
Event Invitation in Hebrew (PDF).
Book Symposium Marking the 20-year Anniversary of the Publication of Menachem Mautner’s The Rise of Formalism and the Decline of Values in Israeli Law (Maagale Daat, 2003, Hebrew)
Tue, March 5, 2013
This was the third in a three-part series organized by the David Berg Institute to celebrate the publication and contribution of legal-history-related books. Our commentators: Prof. Leora Bilsky, Prof. Shai Lavi and Prof. Ronen Shamir reviewed, critiqued and discussed the impact of Mautner's revolutionary book from their own disciplinary perspective.
Event Invitation in Hebrew (PDF).
