The Executioner’s Prayer: What Evolutionary Neuroscience and Talmudic Tradition Teach Us About the Roles of Punishment in Society Join the Robbins Collection and the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies on Thursday, April 20 at the Bancroft Hotel for the 2023 Robbins Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity. The event will […]
Upcoming: 2023 Robbins Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity
Upcoming Conference, Courts and Social Changes: Comparative Perspectives in Ibero-American and Asian Legal Systems
The Robbins Collection & Research Center is proud to announce our upcoming conference, Courts and Social Changes: Comparative Perspectives in Ibero-American and Asian Legal Systems. The conference will be held at Berkeley Law on November 4 and 5. With the turn of the third millennium, modern states face new challenges to their democratic traditions. The […]
Robbins Collection Co-hosts “Gendered Islamophobia” Event
The Robbins Collection and Research Center and the Henderson Center for Social Justice co-hosted “Gendered Islamophobia: Exploring and Uprooting an Imperial Narrative’’ organized by the Berkeley Law Muslim Student Association (BLMSA) on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. The symposium featured Professor Khaled Beydoun of Wayne State University Law School and Professor Nura Sediqe of Princeton University’s […]
Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi Presents 2022 Robbins Collection Lecture in Jewish Law
Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi, the Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College presented this year’s Robbins Collection Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity. Her lecture, “Reimagining Diversity and Jewish Belonging: A Journey Through Genesis,” explored how, in the U.S. context, the dominant conception of Jewish identity does not fully reckon with the […]
“Reimagining Diversity and Jewish Belonging,” the 2022 Robbins Collection Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity
The Robbins Collection and Research Center is proud to present this year’s annual Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity with the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law & Israel Studies. The lecture, “Reimagining Diversity and Jewish Belonging: A Journey Through Genesis” will be given by Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi, the Vice President for Academic Affairs […]
J.S.D. Students Receive Robbins Fellowship
Over the past two years, ten new members of Berkeley Law’s J.S.D. program have received the Robbins Collection Fellowship, which provides partial to full tuition waivers. The J.S.D. is a three year degree program during which students must conduct independent research and write a dissertation. As a condition of the Robbins Fellowship, recipients must also […]
“Jewish Law for the Digital Age” Lecture Re-imagines Privacy Rights
This years’ Robbins Collection Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity, “Jewish Law for the Digital Age,” marked 12 years of collaboration between the Robbins Collection and the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies (formerly the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies) and the 10 year anniversary of the Institute. […]
Upcoming Robbins Collection Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity
We are proud to announce the upcoming Robbins Collection Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity, hosted with The Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law & Israel Studies. This year’s lecture, “Jewish Law for the Digital Age,” will be held virtually on Wednesday, March 10 at 5:30pm PST (UTC-08:00). Featured speakers at the event include […]
From Sinai to Ethiopia, and Back to Israel
Marking the ten-year anniversary of collaboration between the Robbins Collection and the Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, the 2020 Robbins Collection Annual Lecture on Jewish Thought was given by Professor Rabbi Sharon Shalom. Don Seeman, an Anthropologist from Emory University, and Rabbi Shalom discussed the history, customs, and laws of Ethiopian Jews, the […]
POSTPONED: 60 Years of Chinese Legal Reform: A Berkeley Perspective
Due to travel concerns because of the coronavirus situation, this event is being postponed. We will communicate a new date and other updates as soon as logistics have been finalized. Thanks The Robbins Collection is co-hosting an upcoming symposium, “60 Years of Chinese Legal Reform: A Berkeley Perspective,” with the Berkeley Center […]