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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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