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Anthony Burgess

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The Ludwig Institute for Cancer
Anthony is a professor in the Ludwig Institute for Cancer, Melbourne. His research interests are: The molecular mechanisms of signal transduction on the EGF receptor. Within this frame of interest the three dimensional stucture of the EGF receptor ligand TGF has been solved.
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Israel Eph'al

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel is a professor in the Departments of History of the Jewish People and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Gil Kalai

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gil is a professor in the Institute of Mathematics and the Center for the Study of Rationality at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are combinatorics and convexity.
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Ora Limor

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The Open University of Israel

Ora is a professor in the Department of History at the Open University of Israel. Her research interests are: Jewish-Christian polemics and dialogue; cultural encounters in the Middle Ages; sacred tradition and scared space in the Holy Land; pilgrimage: Christian Jewish-Moslem.

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Raanan Rein

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Tel Aviv University
Raanan is a professor in the Department of History at Tel Aviv University. His research interests are: 20th century Argentine and Spanish history; populism; Latin American ethnic studies, with an emphasis on Jewish and Arab experiences.

Law and Pluralism

[RG #97] Law and Pluralism

March 1 - August 31, 2004

Organizer:

Alon Harel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Our research group will explore the following topics:

  • The religious aspects of legal systems.
  • Conceptions of secularism, the specificity of Indian secularism, and the extent to which secularism might be considered a Western, Christian doctrine.
  • Global justice, and caution in the attempts to extend the principles of distributive justice to the global sphere.
  • Establishing universal features of criminal law that would be applied in the International Criminal Court and other international tribunals.
  • Issues of political import and relevance to Israeli society.
  • The relations between values and rights in the constitutional context.
  • An analysis of the later drafts of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, drafted over the months April and May of 1948.

 

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