Colloquium: Legal history of epidemics

(Update: Video of the colloquium here.)

Next Monday, 25 May, the David Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History at Tel Aviv University will host an online colloquium on the legal history of epidemics. 

The program:

Session 1 (15:00 GMT/11:00 EDT):

Mario Ascheri (Rome 3): Treatises on Plague Law in the Italian Renaissance

Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (Harvard): Early Modern Jewish Legal Sources on Epidemics

Noga Morag-Levine (Michigan State): Pestilence and Governance in Early Modern England

Alex Chase-Levenson (Penn): Lazaretto Law in the Early Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean

Felice Batlan (Chicago-Kent): Rights, Quarantines, and Inequality in U.S. History

John Witt (Yale): American Contagions: A Short History of Law and Democracy in Crisis

Session 2 (16:15 GMT/12:15 EDT):

Roundtable discussion: Issues and challenges in the legal history of epidemics

Moderator: David Schorr (Tel Aviv)

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(The Berg Institute's bibliography on the topic is here.)