Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law Inaugural Event

On Nov. 8, the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School kicked off its inaugural event with a daylong conference on Jewish and Israeli law. Dean Martha Minow kicked off the event. Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the director of The Julis-Rabinowitz Program in Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School, introduced the program and the conference’s first speaker, Daniel Boyarin, Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley. Boyarin delivered a talk on “Nomos as Torah: Is there Jewish Law?” Christine Hayes, Robert F. and Patricia R. Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale University, presented a talk on “Divining the Law: Jews and Greeks and the Search for Solid Ground.”