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- 6 –Program (as at 15th July 2012)Monday 30th July17.00-18.30 Session 1, Opening Plenary, Law School Room 127Chair: Larry Rabinovich (New York)Welcome by Professor Steven Fraade, Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism and Chair of theProgram in Judaic Studies, Yale UniversityPanel discussion of the themes of the conference: Interaction of Jewish and Other Legal Systems fromAncient to Modern Times, with Steven Fraade (Yale University), Christine Hayes (YaleUniversity), Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer (IDC Herzliya), Bernard Jackson (Liverpool HopeUniversity)18.30-20.00 Dinner (President’s Room, Woolsey Hall)20.00-21.30 Session 2: Emerging Scholars’ Plenary Session: A Career in Jewish Law Scholarship, Law School Room127Chair: Samuel J. Levine (Touro Law Center)The following scholars will make brief presentations regarding their research plans and career aspirations, andreceive feedback:Ira Bedzow (Emory University), Yitzhak Ben David (Bar-Ilan University), Marc Herman (University ofPennsylvania), David Kalman (University of Pennsylvania), Shlomo Pill (Emory Law School), JacobWeinstein (Touro Law Center), Ethan Zadoff (CUNY Graduate Center)The following scholars, who are presenting full papers at the conference, will also be introduced:Amy Birkan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Mark Goldfeder (Emory University), Omer Michaelis(Tel Aviv University), Sagi Peari (University of Toronto)21.30-22.30 Reception hosted by Dean Patricia Salkin of Touro Law School in honour of the Emerging Scholars, (President’sRoom, Woolsey Hall)Tuesday 31st July7.30-8.15 Breakfast (President’s Room, Woolsey Hall)8.30-10.00 Session 33A: Jewish Law in Dialogue in the Early Modern Period, Law School Room 129Chair: Michael Chernick (HUC-JIR, New York)Birgit Klein (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg) – Transfer of Family Property in Early Modern AshkenazicJewry in Interaction with non-Jewish Legal PracticeTamar Salmon-Mack (Ariel University Center), “The influence of the Polish private law on precedence in debt collectionand ketuba collection customs in early modern era Polish communities”3B: Conceptualising the Relationship between Secular and Religious Law, Law School Room 128Chair: Lena Salaymeh (UC Berkeley School of Law)Michael Baris (Sha’arei Misphat Law College) – Models of Creativity, Restraints of Humility: Secular Legislationthrough the Prism of Jewish LawRichard Hidary (Yeshiva University), Talmudic Topoi: The Hermeneutical Methods of Legal Midrash and Greco-RomanRhetoric