Program

17:00 : Session 1

(15:00 GMT/11:00 EDT)

Treatises on Plague Law in the Italian Renaissance
Mario Ascheri - Rome 3

Early Modern Jewish Legal Sources on Epidemics
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg - Harvard

Pestilence and Governance in Early Modern England
Noga Morag-Levine - Michigan State

Lazaretto Law in the Early Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean
Alex Chase-Levenson - Penn

Rights, Quarantines, and Inequality in U.S. History
Felice Batlan - Chicago-Kent

Contagious Disease and the Law in American History
John Witt - Yale

18:15 : Session 2

(16:15 GMT/12:15 EDT)

Roundtable discussion - Issues and challenges in the legal history of epidemics

Moderator : David Schorr - Tel Aviv

The colloquium will be conducted (and recorded) on Zoom

To register, please email : berg@tauex.tau.ac.il