Law as Religion, Religion as Law
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The conventional approach to the relationship between law and religion operates with the assumption that these are two discrete domains, which often clash with one another. This outlook animates public discourse about such basic topics and tropes as the freedom of religion and freedom from religion; religion and human rights; and the competing jurisdiction of civil and religious courts.
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Organizers: Benjamin Porat and David Flatto
Study Group - Jewish-Christian Polemic on the Nature of Law
For the second year of the scholarly project on "Law as Religion, Religion as Law," we will be convening a study group focusing upon the "Jewish-Christian Polemic on the Nature of Law."
The study group will meet six times, three per semester. Each meeting will be dedicated to a guided study of relevant texts on a specific topic.
The meetings will take place on Thursdays, 14:00-15:30, at Hebrew University Law School on Mount Scopus, Room 357 (the Freimann Room, on the same floor as the law library). Light refreshments will be served. [Please take note of the slight change in time and in a date, relative to an earlier announcement].
Here is a schedule of our meetings:
First Semester
8.12.16--Professor Yisrael Yuval (Hebrew University), "The Law of Inheritance and the Heritage of Law: Oral Law versus the New Testament"
15.12.16--Professor Gary Anderson (University of Notre Dame), "Almsgiving Delivers from Death: Jewish, Protestant and Catholic Polemics about the Rewards that attend keeping the Mitsvot"
29.12.16--Professor Moshe Halbertal (Hebrew University), "The Law as a Gift, and Love of the Law: Between the Tannaitic and Pauline Traditions"
Second Semester
2.3.17--Professor Jeremy Cohen (Tel Aviv University), "Thomas Aquinas, Observing the Mitsvot of the Torah, and the Problem of Supersessionism"
9.3.17--Professor Paula Fredriksen (Boston University and the Hebrew University), "Paul, Origen and Augustine on the "Christian" status of Jewish law"
30.3.17--Dr. Barbara Meyer (Tel Aviv University), "The Charge of Legicide"
The project is sponsored by the Aharon Barak Center for Interdisciplinary Legal Research
Confrence 2017
Law as Religion, Religion as Law Conference
Mt. Scopus, June 5th-7th, 2017
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405
Monday, June 5th
Welcome and Refreshments
Introduction and Opening Remarks
Session 1: Law and Theology in the Bible and in its Wake
- Dr. Assnat Bartor (Tel Aviv University) “Biblical Law – A Successful Relationship between Law and Religion”
- Dr. Ronit Irshai (Bar-Ilan University) “Law, Morality, and "Akedah" Theology”
- Dr. Benjamin Porat (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Legal-Theological Revolutions”
Session 2: Legal Theology in the Modern Era
- Prof. Zachary R. Calo (Hamad bin Khalifa University Law School) “Theological Jurisprudence and Secular Order”
- Prof. Richard K. Sherwin (New York Law School) “Five Images: Visualizing the Sacred Source of Law's Authority”
- Prof. Robert A. Yelle (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich) “Exceptional Grace: The Pardon Power as a Window on the Politico-Theological Problem”
Greetings
Prof. Michael Karayanni
The Bruce W. Wayne Chair in International Law & Dean, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger (University of Haifa) “Biblical Justice: A Secular Reading”
Tuesday, June 6th
Session 3: The Theology of Family Law
- Prof. Lior Barshack (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya) “Descent and the Sacred”
- Prof. Elena Falletti (Carlo Cattaneo University) “Religious Roots of the Duty of Marital Fidelity and the Evolution of Italian Family Law”
Session 4: Second Temple and Rabbinic Perspectives
- Prof. David Flatto (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Law as Salvation: Three Paradigms”
- Yedidah Koren (Tel-Aviv University) “"Mamzerim and Netinim will be Pure in the Future to Come" (t. Kid 5:4) – Law, Eschatology and Demonology in Ancient Judaism”
- Dr. Haim Shapira (Bar-Ilan University) “The Virtue of Mercy – Law and Religion”
Session 5: The Theological Roots of Western Law
- Dr. Dmytro Vovk (Yaroslav the Wise National Law University; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars) “Soviet Law as Religion”
- Kevin Crow (University of Halle-Wittenberg) “International Law as Evangelism: The U.N. ‘Development’ Project’s Ideological Roots in American Christianity”
Session 6: Law, Religion and Minorities
- Dr. Netta Barak-Corren (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Beyond Dissent and Compliance”
- Gilad Abiri (Yale Law School) “The Clashing Sovereigns in Law and Religion”
- Prof. Antonio Fuccillo (Universita' Della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" Naples) “The Courts and the Code: Legal Osmosis between Religion and Law in the Cultural Framework of Civil Law Systems”
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Samuel Moyn (Harvard Law School) “The Secret Origins of Human Dignity”
Wednesday, June 7th
Session 7: Commandments: between Theology and Jurisprudence
- Prof. Itzhak Brand (Bar-Ilan University) “The Precepts 'between Man and His Fellow' and the Precepts 'between Man and God': Categories on the Background of Polemics”
- Prof. Steven Fraade (Yale University) “'Enjoin them upon your Children to Keep' (Deut 32:46): Law as Commandment and Legacy”
- Dr. Shana Strauch Schick (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies) “The Radical Reconceptualization of Ritual in Talmudic Law”
Session 8: Legal Theology: between East and West
- Dr. Yishai Kiel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “The Theologization of the Law in Abbasid Iraq: Geonic, Islamic, and Zoroastrian Perspectives”
- Dr. Valentino Cattelan (IE Business School, Madrid; Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle) “The Making of Law in Islam: Fiqh as Delivery of Verdicts”
- Prof. Silvia Schiavo (University of Ferrara) “Christian Feasts and Roman Criminal Procedure in Late Antiquity”
Session 9: Liturgy and Speech Acts
- Dr. Ayelet Libson (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “The Legal Functions of Liturgy”
- Prof. Miryam Segal (Queens College, The City University of New York) “Neder and Nomos”
Session 10: Liturgy and Speech Acts
- Prof. Bernard S. Jackson (University of Manchester) “Law as Religion, Religion as Law – from a Semiotic Point of View”
- Dr. Daniel Reifman (Institute for Advanced Torah Studies, Bar Ilan University) “Canonicity as a Defining Feature of Legal and Religious Discourse”
- Orit Malka (Tel Aviv University) “On Religious Explanations of Jewish Law Norms: between Missing Explanations and the Explanation from Religion”
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Joseph Weiler (New York University) “The Trial of Jesus - A Theology”
Farewell
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