Spring 2004 Workshop

SPRING 2004

January 26	Bernard Bailyn, (Harvard University), Topic: "Dead Ends: The Dustbins of History"
February 10	Ruth Gavison, (Hebrew University, Fac. of Law), Topic: "Can Israel be both Jewish and Democratic?"
February 13	Judith Butler, (University of California, Berkeley, Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature), Topic: "War at Home: the U.S. Patriot Act and the Problem of Sovereignty"
March 2	Jonathan Yovel, (University of Haifa, Faculty of Law), Topic: "Le droit du plus fort: law as metaphor and morality in Milton's Samson Agonistes"
March 5	Jonathan Yovel, (University of Haifa, Faculty of Law), Topic: "Language and Power in a Place of Contingencies: The Polyphony of Legal Argumentation"
March 9-10	Alexander Welsh, (Yale University, English Department), Topics: "Adam Smith's Impartial Spectator and What She Was Able to See" (March 9) and "Moralities of Obedience and Respect" (March 10)
March 24	Sharon Block, (University of California, Irvine, History Department), Topic: "Constructing Rape and Race in Early American Courts"