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- 8 –17.00-18.30 Session 66A: Jewish Law and Civil Law, Law School Room 129Chair: Yuval Sinai (Netanya Academic College)Ron Kleinman (Ono Academic College) – The Halakhic Validity of Civil Law and Civil Adjudication in Israel: ThePosition of R. Israel Grossman in Responsa Mishkenot IsraelIsrael Zvi Gilat (Netanya Academic College) – Confiscation of Property during Conquest: A Capricious Act?6B: Historical Aspects of Jewish Law, Law School Room 128Chair: Daniela Piattelli (Roma Tor Vergata)Haim Shapira (Bar-Ilan University) – Jewish Courts under Roman Rule: The Tannaitic EvidenceLawrence Kaplan (McGill University) – On Putting Humpty-Dumpty Together Again: The Legal Philosophy ofMaimonides’ Introduction to the Commentary on the Mishnah as Contrasted with his Later Works6C: Jewish Law and International Law, Law School Room 127Chair: Zvi Septimus (University of Toronto)Michael Broyde (Emory University) – Jewish Law and International Law: Halakha and the Law of NationsIlan Fuchs (University of Calgary) and Aviad Hollander (Bar-Ilan University) – Rabbi Shlomo Goren and Internationallaw: A critical dialogue with concepts of sovereignty and human rights18.30-20.00 Dinner (President’s Room, Woolsey Hall)20.00-21.30 Session 7: Plenary Panel: Contemporary Issues on the Interaction of Religious and Secular Law, LawSchool Room 127:Chair: Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman (Vanderbilt University), with Marshall Breger (Catholic University ofAmerica), Sherman Cohn (Georgetown Law Centre), Bernard Jackson (Liverpool Hope University), AnatolyKleymenov (Moscow Bar), Thomas Kuttner (University of Windsor), Yosef Rivlin (Bar-Ilan University)21.30-22.30 Reception hosted by <strong>Deborah</strong> <strong>Charles</strong> <strong>Publications</strong> marking the publication programme of the Agunah ResearchUnit (President’s Room, Woolsey Hall)Wednesday 1st August7.30-8.15 Breakfast (President’s Room, Woolsey Hall)8.30-10.00 Session 88A: Jewish and American Law I, Law School Room 129Chair: Mark Goldfeder (Emory University)Samuel Flaks (New York) – Law, Religion, and Pluralism: The Thought and Experiences of Nathan Isaacs (1886-1941)Michael Helfand (Pepperdine University School of Law) – Church Autonomy versus Religious Arbitration: Two Modelsof Legal Pluralism8B: Civil Law, Law School Room 128Chair: Elliot Dorff (American Jewish University)Aaron Orenstein (Zefat Academic College) – Selling an Asset in the Process of Liquidation: Considerations of Time andSpaceRam Rivlin (Tel Aviv University) – The Death and Afterlife of Modern Jewish Divorce Law

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