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Common Law Legal Transplants: A Comparative Historical Analysis

[RG #113] Common Law Legal Transplants: A Comparative Historical Analysis

March 1 - August 31, 2008

Organizers:

Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University)
Assaf Likhovski (Tel Aviv University)

The goal of our research group is to examine the historical process by which common law has spread around the globe. English law and the legal systems that arose from these systems, primarily American law, have enjoyed immense success in conquering the world. Our group seeks to understand the factors assisting and inhibiting common law transplantation in the distant and more recent past. We will do so by bringing into sharp focus two specific historical examples of common legal law transplantation, to compare them to gain a better understanding of the process that we will examine. The two examples are the United States and Israel. Both countries provide instructive examples of common law transplantations, its successes and problems.

 

2007-2008 Research Groups

Members

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Ron Harris

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Tel Aviv University
Ron is a professor in the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. His research interests are: Anglo-American legal and economic history; history of business organizations; Israeli legal history; consumer bankruptcy; and comparative law.
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Morton Horwitz

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Harvard Law School
Morton is a professor at Harvard Law School. His research interest is legal history.
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Amalia Kessler

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Stanford Law School
Amalia is a professor at Stanford Law School.
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Pnina Lahav

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Boston University
Pnina is a professor in the School of Law at Boston University. Her research interests are constitutional law and legal history.
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Assaf Likhovski

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Tel Aviv University
Assaf is a professor in the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. His research interests are legal history, taxation, comparative law, and jurisprudence.
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Yoram Schachar

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IDC Herzliya
Yoram is a professor in the School of Law at IDC Herzliya. His research interests are legal history, comparative law, and criminal law.
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Christopher Tomlins

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Northwestern School of Law
Christopher is a professor at Northwestern School of Law and the American Bar Foundation.
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Steven Wilf

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University of Connecticut
Steven is a professor in the School of Law at the University of Connecticut. His research interests are the history of law and intellectual property law.