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Sidney Griffith

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The Catholic University of America
Sidney is a professor in the Department of Semitic Languages at the Institute of Christian Oriental Research, The Catholic University of America. His research interests are Arabic Christianity, Syriac monasticism, medieval Christian-Muslim encounters, and ecumenical and interfaith dialogue.
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Maayan Davidov

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Maayan Davidov teaches at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on parent-child relationships and children's socio-emotional development.

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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Ezra Kopelowitz

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The Jewish Agency
Ezra is affiliated with the Department of Jewish-Zionist Education at the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem.
Nadja Germann

Nadja Germann

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University of Freiburg

Professor Nadja Germann is a lecturer on philosophy in the Islamic world at the University of Freiburg.

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Her research focuses on the philosophy of language and logic in classical Arabic-Islamic thought, epistemology and metaphysics, and natural philosophy in the Latin early Middle Ages.

2018-2019 Fellow: The Reception and Impact of Aristotelian Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture

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Derek Krueger

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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Derek is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His research interests are: Christianity in Late Antiquity and Byzantium; hagiography; liturgy and identity; monasticism; and lay piety.
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Mark Ebers

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University of Cologne
Mark Ebers is a professor of Business Administration, Management and Organization Development at the University of Cologne.