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 VISITING FELLOWS
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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
UPCOMING RESEARCH EVENTS
Conference: John Noonan: Judge and Legal Scholar
Judge John Noonan’s commitment to justice and the rule of law shaped his life as a judge and a legal scholar. His scholarship and judicial decisions span more than six decades and cover an amazing range of ethical and legal issues that defined in his view the Western legal tradition. This conference will explore Judge Noonan’s intellectual legacy […]
PAST RESEARCH EVENTS
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)