By sponsoring conferences, workshops, and visiting fellows, the Robbins Collection fosters international partnerships with leading institutions to promote legal research in the civil law tradition and contemporary legal issues.
NEW IN PUBLISHED RESEARCH
ACRL Member of the Week: Jennifer K. Nelson
This interview is being reprinted with the permission of ARCL Insider. Jennifer K. Nelson is a reference librarian at The Robbins Collection, University of California Berkeley School of Law . Jennifer has been a member of ACRL for 14 years and is your ACRL member of the week for June 17, 2019. Describe yourself in […]New and Returning Robbins Fellows
The Robbins Collection has three returning Fellows joining us in the summer and fall of 2019. Senior Fellow, Dr. David Johnston, will continue the research he began in spring 2019. Dr. Agnès Desmazières will also be returning to continue her research on the Catholic Church and canon law. To read more about Dr. Desmazières’s research […]
PAST FELLOWS AND VISITING PROFESSORS
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Amnon Reichman
- 2018-2019 Robbins Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Civil Law
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Jacqueline Ross
- 2019 Distinguished Robbins Visiting Professor
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Stefano Malpassi
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Stefan Stantchev
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Raffaella Bianchi Riva
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Maria Sole Testuzza
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Agnès Desmazières
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Tyler Lange
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David Johnston
- Senior Robbins Collection Fellow
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David Kasher
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Pablo Echeverri
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Lena Salaymeh
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Alarico Barbagli
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Luigi Nuzzo
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Julio Gaitan
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Jennifer Haselberger
Current Robbins Collection Fellows and Visiting Professors can be found here.
UPCOMING RESEARCH EVENTS
Robbins Collection Annual Lecture: From Sinai to Ethiopia, and Back to Israel: The Halakhic and Conceptual World of Ethiopian Jewry
Join us for this year’s Robbin’s Collection Annual Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought and Identity. Rabbi Shalom delves into the history, customs, and law of the Beta Israel, codifying the ancient cultural heritage of Ethiopian Jewry for the first time and contrasting it with Orthodox rabbinic law. Navigating tensions between religion and culture, he offers suggestions […]
PAST RESEARCH EVENTS
Upcoming Robbins Collection Annual Lecture: From Sinai to Ethiopia, and Back to Israel (01/24/2020)
Symposium Explores Legacy of Judge John T. Noonan (11/25/2019)
Judge and Scholar: Perspectives on the Intellectual Legacy of John T. Noonan (08/05/2019)
Lecture: Discretionary Referendums in Constitutional Amendment (03/26/2019)
Lecture: Jewish Law and the #MeToo Movement (03/25/2019)
Discretionary Referendums in Constitutional Amendment: A Comparative Perspective (03/01/2019)
The 2019 Robbins Collection Lecture on Canon Law (03/01/2019)
Lecture: How the Church Can Overcome the Sexual Abuse Crisis (02/12/2019)
Robbins Collection Annual Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity (02/12/2019)
Conference: Habeas Corpus and the Constitution in Wartime (12/14/2018)
Conference: Comparative Legal Issues in Taiwan and the United States (11/28/2018)
Current Legal Issues in Taiwan and the United States (10/12/2018)
Habeas Corpus in Wartime (09/15/2018)
Conference: Reconciling Islamic and European Civil Laws (04/20/2018)
Symposium: Judicial Independence and Accountability in Latin America (01/04/2018)
Judicial Independence and Accountability in Latin America (12/09/2017)
Conference: Current Legal Issues in Taiwan and the United States (11/14/2017)
Workshop: Customary Law Today (05/18/2017)
Reconciling Islamic and European Civil Laws (04/06/2017)