The Use and Misuse of Technology in the Regulation of Judges in Israel Berkeley Law and the Robbins Collection are proud to welcome Amnon Reichman, Associate Professor of Law at Israel’s University of Haifa, to Boalt Hall as the Robbins Collection Visiting Professor in Comparative Law. Professor Reichman, who taught at Berkeley Law over […]
Legal-Net Colloquium with Prof. Amnon Reichman
Conference: Current Legal Issues in Taiwan and the United States
Civil Law and Common Law Perspectives On October 20th several Berkeley Law professors participated in, Current Legal Issues in Taiwan and the United States, a join conference held at National Taiwan University’s College of Law in Taipei. The conference brought together legal scholars from NTU, National Central University, and Berkeley Law, as well as […]
Published: Robbins Fellow, Pablo Echeverri
Pablo Echeverri, a Robbins Post-Doctoral Fellow since 2015, was recently published in the Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law. His paper, “The 2015 Power-Balancing Reform in Colombia: a missed opportunity to disrupt the ecosystem of structural clientelism in the halls of justice,” examines the reform’s failure to achieve a meaningful restructuring of Colombia’s judiciary. […]
Workshop: Customary Law Today
The Robbins Collection and the Institut des Usages (IDU) organized a workshop held in Montpellier, France on May 18 and 19. The co-sponsored workshop was moderated by Lloyd M. Robbins Professor of Law Laurent Mayali and University of Montpellier Professor Pierre Mousseron. The workshop focused on topics such as private law, constitutional law, philosophy of […]
Reconciling Islamic and European Civil Laws
Avenues and Obstacles to the Integration of European Muslim Immigrants The influx of Muslim immigrants to European countries like France and Germany over the past several decades continues to influence the pluralism of the population’s cultural and religious identities. The Muslim population in Europe reached an estimated 4.9% in 2016—an estimation that is projected […]
Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue
The Robbins Collection is pleased to announce that our latest publication, Texts and Contexts in Legal History, will be available beginning January 2017. Renowned legal historian, Charles Donahue, serves as the inspiration for this volume of essays covering a range of topics of interest to legal historians, legal scholars, and others. Inspired by Donahue’s insights […]