10月4日星期三

7:30 PM, Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall, 火博体育大学

Admission is free and open to the public

火博体育讲座:

In January 2023, the Israeli government proposed reforms to the country's judicial 系统. 的se reforms aim to significantly limit the power of the Supreme Court, which has been the single structural check on the power of the government for decades. 的 so-called judicial reform was met with mass protests led by academics, lawyers, prominent figures in the hi-tech industry and the business sector, and civil society groups. 的y have argued that the judicial overhaul would undermine the rule of law in Israel and immediately jeopardize its democracy. 的 protests gained support from senior military officers and former heads of the secret services, as well as thousands of reserve soldiers who declared their intention to discontinue their service. 在晚些时候 July, the government passed a law stripping the Supreme Court of its power to obstruct government decisions on the grounds of the doctrine of reasonableness. 这个决定 dragged the country into a constitutional crisis.    

In his public talk, Professor Avi鲁宾 will offer some observations on the judicial overhaul and its context from a socio-legal perspective. In addition, he will share his personal experience as a university professor teaching "sensitive" topics in a volatile political period and as an active participant in the greatest street protests 以色列所知道的.   

火博体育演讲者:

Avi鲁宾 received his Ph.D. in History and Middle East Studies from Harvard (2006) and has been teaching at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Middle East Studies since 2006. Rubin has specialized in the socio-legal history of the late 奥斯曼帝国. He published extensively on various aspects of legal change in the 现代性时代. His publications explore themes such as legal codification, legal culture, cultural perceptions of the rule of law, political trials, and legal positivism. His first and oft-cited monograph, titled Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity (2011), is a revisionist exploration of Ottoman legal change in the nineteenth century. Adopting a "law in action" approach, it is a pioneering study of one of the most important landmarks in the passage of the Ottoman empire to modernity, the nizamiye (reformed) 法院系统. His second book, titled Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial: 的 Yildiz Case (2018), delves into the emergence of a new culture of legalism in the late Ottoman period. In recent years, Rubin has been studying myths of legal continuity, focusing on "legal narratives" in Israel.    

Co-sponsored by the Office of Special Programs and the History Department.

的 Greenberg Middle East Scholar-in-Residence Series is made possible by a gift from 简·格林伯格81届. 的 series enables the college to host an Israeli scholar who through teaching, lecturing, and participating in campus life, educates the community on a range of topics concerning political life in the Middle East.