Workshop Participants: Previous Years
2023-2024
MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
(Organizers: Thomas Duve (MPI), Stefan Vogenhauer (MPI), David Schorr (TAU), Leora Bilsky (TAU), Rachel Friedman (TAU)
Assaf Likhovski (TAU)
Jan-Henrik Meyer (MPILHLT)
Egas Moniz Bandeira (FAU)
Alon Jasper (TAU)
Raquel Sirotti (MPILHLT)
Sarina Kuersteiner (Union College)
Noga Morag-Levine (Michigan State University)
Aparna Balachandran (Delhi University)
Cristiano Paixão (University of Brasília)
Julia Moses (University of Sheffield)
2022-2023
1. MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
(Organizers: Thomas Duve (MPI), Stefan Vogenhauer (MPI), Ron Harris (TAU), Assaf Likhovski (TAU))
Taisu Zhang (Yale University)
Eduardo Zimmermann (Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires)
Phillip I. Lieberman (Vanderbilt University)
Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin)
Roy Kreitner (Tel Aviv University)
Baudouin Dupret (CNRS France)
Jean-Louis Halpérin (EHESS Paris)
Inge Van Hulle (MPILHT Frankfurt/ KU Leuven)
Philip Bajon (MPILHT Frankfurt)
Lena Foljanty (Universität Wien)
Priyasha Saksena (University of Leeds)
2. TAU Legal History Workshop
(Organizers: Ofra Bloch, David Schorr, Assaf Likhovski)
Shani Schnitzer (TAU)
Noya Rimalt (TAU)
Kaius Tuori (Helsinki)
Adam Shinar (Reichman)
Basma Fahoum (Stanford)
Ornit Shani (Haifa)
Sam Moyn (Yale)
Tamara Morsel (NYU)
Nir Gonen (Yale)
Rotem Giladi (Roehampton)
Andrea Katz (Washington)
2021-2022
1. MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop
(Organizers: Thomas Duve (MPI), Stefan Vogenhauer (MPI), David Schorr)
James Whitman (Yale)
Jake Subryan Richards (LSE)
Elisabetta Fiocchi (Zurich)
Philip Bajon, Victoria Barnes & Emily Whewell (MPI)
Manuel Bastias Saavedra (MPI)
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (Harvard)
Heikki Pihlajamäki (Helsinki)
Jessica Marglin (USC)
David Schorr (TAU)
Rabiat Akande (Osgoode)
Paul du Plessis (Edinburgh)
2. TAU Legal History Workshop
(Organizers: Leora Bilsky, Roy Kreitner, Doreen Lustig)
Naama Maor (TAU)
Abigail Faust (TAU)
Nadège Ragaru, Science Po (Center for International Studies
Anat Rosenberg (IDC)
Michael Fleming (Polish University Abroad, London)
Liat Kozma & Ahmed Amara (HU)
Susanne Hillman (San Diego State University)
Katharina Isabel Schmidt (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg)
Immi Tallgren (Helsinki)
William Forbath (Texas)
James Loeffler (Virginia)
2020-2021
(Organizers: Rachel Friedman, Ron Harris, Assaf Likhovski)
Jedidiah Kroncke, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
[Yair Lorberbaum, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law
Aviram Shahal, Michigan Law School,
Vanessa Ogle, University of California, Berkeley, Department of History –
Rowan Dorin, Stanford University, Department of History,
Geraldine Gudefin, American University Department of History & TAU Berg Institute)
Emily Kadens, Northwestern Law School,
Idit Ben Or, Tel Aviv University Safra Center,
Julie Cooper, Tel Aviv University, Department of Political Science,
Adam Lebovitz, Cambridge University Faculty of History,
2019-2020
(Organizers: Ron Harris, Doreen Lustig and Assaf Likhovski)
Pnina Lahav, Boston U.
Maoz Kahana, TAU
Leora Bilsky TAU
Rachel Klagsbrun, TAU
Yair Sagy, Haifa
Guy Keinan, TAU
Kellen R. Funk, Columbia Law School
Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School
Tamar M. Menashe, Columbia University History Department
Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University History Department
2018-2019
(Organizers: Ron Harris and David Schorr)
Sarah Mandel, History, TAU
Tamar Herzog, History, Harvard
Abigail Faust, Law, TAU
Edward Cavanagh, History, Cambridge
Shaunnagh Dorsett, Law, University of Technology, Sydney
Philip Stern, History, Duke
Laetitia Guerlain, Law, Bordeaux
Rivka Brot, Law, TAU
Stephan Wendehorst, History & Law, Gießen & Vienna
Evelyne Oliel-Grausz, History, Paris
Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University
Orli Sela , Tel Aviv University
Avi Rubin, Ben Gurion University
Michael Birnhack, Tel Aviv University
Rotem Giladi, Hebrew University
Michael Lobban, London School of Economic
William Forbath, University of Texas
Guy Burak, New York University
Nader Hakim, University of Bordeaux
2016-2017
(Organizers: Roy Kreitner and David Schorr)
Morton Horwitz, Harvard
Inbal Maimon-Blau, Tel Aviv
Rachel Zabarkes Friedman, Harvard & Tel Aviv
Ulas Ince, Singapore Management University
Elia Etkin, Tel Aviv
Nadav Shoked, Northwestern
Christopher Tomlins, Berkeley
Natalie Davidson, Hebrew University
Thomas Mohr, University College Dublin
Yifat Monnickendam, Tel Aviv
2015-2016
(Organizers: Ron Harris, Assaf Likhovski, and Lena Salaymeh.)
Markus Dubber (Toronto Law)
Doreen Lustig (Tel Aviv Law)
Ahmad Amara (NYU)
Uriel Simonsohn (Haifa)
Daniel Hulsebosch (NYU Law)
William Ian Miller (Michigan Law)
Risa Goluboff (Virginia Law)
Eliav Lieblich (IDC Law)
Christine Hayes (Yale)
2014-2015
(Organizers: Leora Bilsky, Lena Salaymeh and David Schorr)
Albrecht Cordes, Frankfurt
Orna Alyagon Darr, Carmel
Mayo Moran, Toronto
Ido Israelowich, Tel Aviv
Ray Cocks, Keele
Richard Ross, Illinois
Roy Kreitner, Tel Aviv
Mark Lewis, CUNY
Omer Aloni , Tel Aviv
2013-2014
(Organizers: Ron Harris, Roy Kreitner and Doreen Lustig)
Anne Orford, Melbourne Law School
Arye Edrei, TAU Law
Ayelet Libson, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU
Binyamin Blum, Hebrew University Law Faculty
David Schorr, TAU Law
Elizabeth Blackmar, Department of History, Columbia University
Geetanjali Srikantan, Post-Doc, TAU Law Faculty
Mark Cohen, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Patricia Clavin, Jesus College, University of Oxford
Rivka Brot, TAU Law (PH.D Candidate)
William Forbath, The University of Texas Law School
2012-2013
(Organizers: Leora Bilsky, Doreen Lustig and Assaf Likhovski)
Ajay K. Mehrotra, Maurer School of Law, University of Indiana
Alan Tzvika Nissel, Helsinki University
Amalia Kessler, Stanford University
Michael Birnhack, TAU Law
Rande Kostal, Western Ontario
Ronen Shamir, Sociology Department, Tel Aviv University
Roy Kreitner, TAU Law
Shai Lavi, TAU Law
Théofilakis Fabien, IHTP
Thomas Sugrue, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
2011-2012
(Organizers: Leora Bilsky, Roy Kreitner and David Schorr)
Ariella Gross, University of Southern California Law School
Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota Department of History
Ely Aharonson, Haifa University Faculty of Law
Henry Rousso, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent, CNRS
Jessica Marglin, Ph.D. candidate, Princeton Department of Near Eastern Studies
Laura Jockusch, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University
Seán Donlan, University of Limerick School of Law
Yael Berda, Ph. D. candidate, Princeton Department of Sociology
Yael Braudo, Ph.D. candidate, TAU Law
2010-11
(Organizers: Ron Harris, David Schorr and Assaf Likhovski)
Dina Moyal, Stanford History Department
Dror Goldberg, Bar Ilan University Department of Economics
Guy Lurie, Georgetown University
Jack Rakove, Stanford Departments of History and Political Science
James Whitman, Yale Law School
Nahum Karlinsky, BGU Department of Jewish History
Nandini Chatterjee, University of Plymouth School of Humanitie
Nicholas Parrillo, Yale Law School
Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago Law School
Rivka Brot, TAU Law
2009-10
(Organizers Leora Bilsky, Ron Harris and David Schorr)
Angela Fernandez, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Devin Pendas, Boston College History Department
History of Science
Jose Bruner and Lidia Rabinovich, TAU Law
Leora Bilsky, TAU Law
Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin Law School
Noga Morag-Levine, Michigan State University College of Law
Omri Paz, Tel Aviv University, Department of Middle Eastern History
Ron Harris, TAU Law
Yair Sagy, Haifa University Law School
2008/9
(Organized by Leora Bilsky, Roy Kreitner and David Schorr)
Anat Rosenberg, TAU Law
Anat Stern, Hebrew University, History Department
David Rabban, University of Texas, Austin, School of Law
Eran Shalev, Haifa University, History Department
Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University, History Department
Lawrence Douglas, Amherst College, Dept. of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought
Liat Kozma, Hebrew University, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara, History Department
Philip Hamburger, Columbia University School of Law
Ron Harris, TAU Law
2007/8
(Organized by Roy Kreitner and David Schorr)
Amalia Kellser, Stanford University Law School & Department of History
Ariela Gross, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
Hilary Soderland, Cegla Center Fellow, Tel Aviv University
Lior Ben-David, TAU Law and TAU History Department
Oren Bracha, University of Texas, Austin, School of Law
Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University, Department of Jewish History
Pnina Lahav, Boston University School of Law
William Novak, University of Chicago, History Department
Yair Seltenreich, Tel-Hai College
2006/7
(Organized by Ron Harris, Assaf Likhovski and Roy Kreitner)
Geremy Forman, University of Haifa
Michael Zakim, Tel Aviv University Department of History
Nir Kedar, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law
Orna Darr, University of Haifa
Richard Ross, University of Illinois College of Law
Stuart Banner, UCLA Law School
Uri Yiftach-Firanko, The Institute of Arts and Letters, Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University
2005/6
(Organized by Leora Bilsky, Ron Harris and Assaf Likhovski)
Alon Harel, Hebrew University School of Law
David Schorr, TAU Law
Ido Shachar, TAU Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Moussa Abu Ramadan, Haifa University Law School
Rainer Schröder, Humboldt-University, Berlin
Steven Wilf, University of Connecticut Law School
Suzanne Last Stone, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva U., New York
Vicky Woeste, American Bar Foundation, Chicago
2004/5
(Organized by Leora Bilsky, Ron Harris and Assaf Likhovski)
Amalia Kesler, Stanford University
Amichai Radziner, Bar Ilan University Law School
Arye Edrai, TAU Law
Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation
Daphne Barak-Erez, TAU Law
Michael Stein, William & Mary and Harvard
Neta Ziv, Tel Aviv University Law School
Rebecca Wittmann, University of Toronto History Department
Sandy Kedar, Haifa University Law School
Shimon Blum, Tel Aviv University Law School & Sapir College
2003/4
(Organized by Assaf Likhovski and Leora Bilsky)
David De Vries, Tel Aviv University Department of Labor Relations
Jonathan Zasloff, UCLA School of Law
Joshua Getzler, St. Hugh’s College Oxford
Nathan Brun, Hebrew University
Nir Kedar, Bar Ilan University School of Law
Ruti Teitel, New York Law School
Shai Lavi, TAU Law
Steve Bank, UCLA School of Law
2002/3
(Organized by Ron Harris and Leora Bilsky)
Alan Rosen, University of Pennsylvania
Arye Edrai, TAU Law
Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation
Deborah Bernstein, Haifa University sociology department
Guy Seidman, IDC Herzliya
Hemda Gur Arye, Tel Aviv University School of Law
Jack Rakove, Stanford University
Melech Westreich, TAU Law
Noya Rimalt, Haifa University School of Law
Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University Department of Jewish History
Shai Lavi, TAU Law
2001/2002
(Organized by Ron Harris and Assaf Likhovski)
Haim Zandberg, Hebrew University School of Law
Laura Kalman, University of California at Santa Barbara Department of History
Nathan Brun, Hebrew University
Oren Bracha, Harvard Law School
Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University History Department
Roy Kreitner, TAU Law
Sandy Kedar, Law, Haifa University School of Law
Yifat Holzman, Bar Ilan University
Yigal Halfin, Tel Aviv University History Department
Yoram Shachar, IDC Herzliya
2000/2001
(Organized by Ron Harris and Assaf Likhovski)
Ariela Gross, University of Southern California Law School
Arye Edrai, TAU Law
Bernard Jackson, Manchester University Center for Jewish Studies
Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation
Daphne Barak-Erez, TAU Law
Guy Seidman, IDC, Herzliya
Leon Shelef, TAU Law
Menachem Mautner, TAU Law
Nir Kedar, Bar Ilan University
Tal Golan, Ben Gurion University
Tali Margalit University of California, Berkeley
1999/2000
(Organized by Ron Harris and Assaf Likhovski)
Asher Maoz, TAU Law
Dan Klarman, University of Southern California School of Law
David Lieberman, University of California, Berkeley
Guy Bechor, IDC, Herzliya
Jose Brunner, TAU Law
Joshua Getzler, St. Hugh's College, Oxford
Leora Bilsky, TAU Law
Mavae Marcus, US Supreme Court Documentary History Project
Michael Stanislawski, Columbia University History Department
Reva Siegel, Yale Law School
Yoram Shachar, IDC, Herzliya
1998/1999
(Organized by Ron Harris and Assaf Likhovski)
Eben Moglen, Columbia Univesity Law School
Laura Kalman, University of California Santa Barbara
Morton Horwitz, Harvard Law School
Pnina Lahav, Boston University School of Law
Ron Shaham, Hebrew University School of Law
Yifat Holzman-Gazit, Bar Ilan University School of Law
Yoram Shachar, IDC, Herzliya
1997/1998
(Organized by Assaf Likhovski)
Esther Cohen, Hebrew University Department of History
Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University Department of History
Iris Agmon, Ben Gurion University Department of Middle Eastern History
Nimrod Hurwitz, Ben Gurion University Department of Middle Eastern History