Maison française d'Oxford
Legal Pluralism in the Roman Empire and the Perception of the Law of the Other
Oxford
15-16 juin 2015
CONVENERS
- Katell Berthelot (CNRS/Aix-en-Provence)
- Capucine Nemo-Pekelman (Paris-Ouest Nanterre University)
- Martin Goodman (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies)
- Catherine Darbo-Peschanski (CNRS/MFO)
ORGANISERS
- GDRI JUDROME and CURERE network; Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Program
From 15th June, 9.00am to 16th June, 5.30pm
Monday, June 15
- 9am | Welcome and Introduction
Chair: Alan Bowman
- 9.30-10am | Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck University of London): Introduction: “Rethinking Forum Shopping in the Context of Ancient Law”
10am | Coffee break
Egypt
- 10.30am | Jakub Urbanik (University of Warsaw): “Legal Pluralism in Roman Egypt: It is best to declare law for them upon the law of the Egyptians”
- 11.30am | Jose Luis Alonso (The University of the Basque Country): “Legal Pluralism in Roman Egypt: the ‘Laws of the Egyptians’ and the Roman Jurisdiction”
12.30am | Lunch
Chair: Soazick Kerneis
Egypt (continued)
- 1.30pm | Anna Dolganov (Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Antike, Vienna): “‘Men of the Law’: Legal and Forensic Practitioners in the Provinces in the Early and High Empire”
Asia Minor
- 2.30pm | Georgy Kantor (St John’s College, Oxford), “Legal Pluralism in Roman Asia Minor”
3.30pm | Coffee break
Chair: Caroline Humfress
The West
- 4pm | Soazick Kerneis (Paris-Ouest Nanterre University – Maison Française d’Oxford) “Legal Pluralism in the Western Roman Empire: Popular Legal Sources and Legal History”
- 5pm | Marie Roux (Paris-Ouest Nanterre University): “‘Forum shopping’ and special jurisdictions in the context of the first regna in Gaul: the example of the Visigothic kingdom”
Tuesday, June 16
Chair: Martin Goodman
- 9am | Carlos Lévy (Paris Sorbonne University): “Cicero and the Barbarian Laws: A Philosophical Problem?”
10am | Coffee break
Judea/Palestine
- 10.30am | Hannah Cotton (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): “Back to the Application of ‘Private International Law’ to Jurisdiction in the Roman Empire”
- 11.30am | Kimberley Czajkowski (University of Münster): “Law made Local: The Babatha Archive”
12.30am | Lunch
Chair: Hannah Cotton
Judea/Palestine (Continued)
- 1.30pm | Katell Berthelot (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence): “The Roman Legal System in Jewish Literary Sources”
- 2.30pm | Yair Furstenberg (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): “‘The Custom of the State’: The Shifting Status of Foreign Legal Practices in Early Rabbinic Law”
3.30pm | Coffee break
- 4pm | Ron Naiweld (CNRS, Paris): “The Judge as a Sovereign. The Rabbinic Invention of the Beit-din in its Historical and Hermeneutical Context”
- 5pm | Jill Harries (University of St Andrews): Conclusions
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