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SUMMARY:Property Rights and National Identities in Jerusalem - The Case of the Armenian Quarter with Dr. Sami Ershied
DESCRIPTION:How does a case of property ownership become a case of minority identity? What are the unique legal aspects of property cases in Jerusalem? What can we learn from the the current legal battles to protect property in Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter? The Legal Status of property possession and ownership in Jerusalem derives from the unique legal status of the city in international and domestic Law and the ways it is affected by historic and political changes. One of the most ancient national-religious groups in Jerusalem is the Christian Armenian Community in the Old City.\nIn the last four years\, Sami Ershied has represented this small community in its legal struggle to protect their property in the Armenian Quarter.  \nDr. Adv. Sami Ershied\, is a Jerusalem-based lawyer\, who specializes in Public Law\, Human Rights Law\, Property and Financial Law. His practical work focuses on the representation of communities under the risk of Displacement. Among the cases that he handles\, he has represented the community of Sheikh Jarrah during the past 15 years to prevent the eviction of the community members from their homes. He has also presented numerous cases before the Israeli supreme court for the property protection of minority communities in Jerusalem. He holds an LLB from the Hebrew University\, an LLM from the University of Sussex in England and a PhD from the Hebrew University.  In addition\, Dr. Ershied advises planning bodies\, local and central authorities. He also lectures at the Law Faculty and the Business Administration School of the Hebrew University\, focusing on Transitional Justice\, Development and Finance.
URL:https://pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/property-rights-and-national-identities-in-jerusalem-the-case-of-the-armenian-quarter-with-dr-sami-ershied/
LOCATION:Hauser Hall 102\, 1545 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:"What Do Universities Owe Jews under Title VI\, and Why?" with Robert Katz\, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
DESCRIPTION:What do universities owe Jews under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? The answer depends on why Title VI protects Jews – that is\, its legal basis for doing so. Title VI prohibits universities from tolerating discrimination “on the ground of race\, color\, and national origin.” Notably\, Title VI –unlike Title VII—does not address discrimination based on “religion.” Title VI’s disjunctive language invites interpreters to disaggregate Jewishness into “race” and “religion” and to extend the statute’s protections to Jews in their racial capacity but not their religious. If this interpretive move succeeds\, universities might be permitted to address anti-Jewish discrimination only when motivated by racial antisemitism\, leaving them free to ignore such discrimination when motivated solely by religious antisemitism.  This disaggregative approach runs counter to strong precedent for the proposition that “Jewishness” as such is a protected characteristic under federal anti-discrimination law. As applied to Jews\, the terms “race” and “religion” serve as statutory placeholders for Jewishness\, which may be serviceably attached to either category\, or both. Moreover\, this approach is sociologically inaccurate: as an ethnoreligious phenomenon\, Jewishness cannot be meaningfully reduced to either ethnicity or religion. Lastly\, there are good reasons to avoid categorizing Jews as a “race” under Title VI\, as this risks reinforcing racialized thinking about Jews in broader society. This is playing with fire. \nRobert Katz’s new casebook is “Antisemitism and the Law.” It serves as a vital resource for understanding the legal history of antisemitism and legal strategies to combat it. It explores how legal systems have been wielded both to oppress Jews and to fight antisemitism\, offering a global and historical perspective on the intersection of law and antisemitism.
URL:https://pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/antisemitism-and-the-law-a-new-casebook-robert-katz-indiana-university-robert-h-mckinney-school-of-law/
LOCATION:Wasserstein 3007
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SUMMARY:"Mystical Nihilism\, Theopolitics\, Ethics\, and the Law Beyond Law"  with Elliot Wolfson\, UC Santa Barbara\, Emeritus
DESCRIPTION: \nThis lecture will explore the notion of venturing to the law beyond the law particularly as it is implied by mystical nihilism. My argument pivots around the assumption that the skepticism of faith\, endemic to nihilistic encounter with the nothing on the part of mystics\, resonates with the insubordinate proclivity of the Jewish esoteric tradition\, what I have referred to in my previous scholarship as the hypernomian trespassing of the boundary that preserves the very boundary that is trespassed. The shift in nomenclature from antinomianism to hypernomianism conveys that the mystical does not coerce an anarchic suspension of the law but rather its irresolute overcoming through relentless undergoing\, the surpassing of the path by suffering its unremitting abiding. Kabbalistic sources impart the truism that release from the law is not attained by discarding the law but by executing the law with an intensity that pushes past its perimeter even as that perimeter is preserved in the act of defiance. The limitlessness of the hypernomian is thus confined within the limits of the nomos.\n \nElliot R. Wolfson\, PhD\, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies; and a Distinguished Professor of Religion at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many publications including most recently The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger\, Nazism and the Jewish Other (2018); Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis (2019); Suffering Time: Philosophical\, Kabbalistic\, and Ḥasidic Reflections on Temporality (2021); The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes: Between Nihilism and Hope (2023); and Nocturnal Seeing: Hopelessness of Hope and Philosophical Gnosis in Susan Taubes\, Gillian Rose\, and Edith Wyschogrod (2025).
URL:https://pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/mystical-nihilism-theopolitics-ethics-and-the-law-beyond-law-with-eliot-wolfson-uc-santa-barbara-emeritus/
LOCATION:Hauser Hall 102\, 1545 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Work of the Israeli Supreme Court in Times of National Emergency: A Talk by Justice Khaled Kabub\, Israeli Supreme Court
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URL:https://pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/a-talk-by-justice-khaled-kabub-israeli-supreme-court/
LOCATION:Hauser Hall 102\, 1545 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:"The Israeli Supreme Court and the War on Gaza" (via zoom) with Yahli Shereshevsky\, Haifa University
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Shereshevsky will discuss recent cases in the Israeli Supreme Court in the context of the war in Gaza and how the Court’s approach can be explained through broader discussions of the application of international law in domestic courts. Specifically\, he will examine these cases against the backdrop of the various international proceedings related to the war\, as well as the recent domestic tensions between the executive branch and the judiciary. \nDr. Yahli Shereshevsky is an Associate Professor at the University of Haifa Law School. He was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Federmann Cyber Security Reserach Center\, the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions\, and a Grotius Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School. Yahli specializes in international law\, focusing on international humanitarian law\, international lawmaking\, international legal theory\, war and technology\, and international criminal law. \nYahli received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, where he was a Hans-Guth Dreyfus Fellow for Conflict Resolution and the Law and was enrolled in the Hoffman Leadership and Responsibility Fellowship Program. Yahli holds an LLB in Law and the “Amirim” Interdisciplinary Honors Program for Outstanding Students (summa cum laude) from the Hebrew University. He clerked for the Honorable Deputy Chief Justice Eliezer Rivlin of the Supreme Court of Israel. Yahli’s work has been published in leading journals including the European Journal of International Law\, the Virginia Journal of International Law\, The Michigan Journal of International Law\, and the Journal of International Criminal Justice. \nJOIN VIA ZOOM:  https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97439197395
URL:https://pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-israeli-supreme-court-and-the-war-on-gaza-via-zoom-with-yahli-shereshevsky-haifa-university/
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