(Source: Environment, Law, and History Blog)
Via the Environment, Law, and History
blogspot, we learned of a colloquium on the legal history of epidemics.
Next Monday, 25 May, the David
Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History at Tel Aviv University will host
an online colloquium on the legal history of epidemics.
The program:
Session 1 (15:00 GMT/11:00 EDT):
Mario Ascheri (Rome
3): Treatises on Plague Law in the Italian Renaissance
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (Harvard):
Early Modern Jewish Legal Sources on Epidemics
Noga Morag-Levine (Michigan
State): Pestilence and Governance in Early Modern England
Alex Chase-Levenson (Penn):
Lazaretto Law in the Early Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean
Felice Batlan (Chicago-Kent):
Rights, Quarantines, and Inequality in U.S. History
John Witt (Yale): American
Contagions: A Short History of Law and Democracy in Crisis
Session 2 (16:15 GMT/12:15
EDT):
Roundtable discussion: Issues and
challenges in the legal history of epidemics
Moderator: David Schorr (Tel Aviv)
More info at the Environment,
Law, and History Blog.
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