FULL SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS AND PRESENTERS
8:00 am | REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST
8:45-9:45 am | BREAKOUT SESSIONS I
- Talmud and the Travel Ban: The Laws and Ethics of Immigration and National Borders
Presenter: Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, Dean, Institute of American and Talmudic Law - From Terror to Litigation: Developments in the Ongoing Legal War Against Terror and the Counter Lawsuit Against Jewish and Israeli Entities
Panelists: Barry G. Felder, Foley & Lardner, NYC; Steven R. Perles, Washington, DC; Stephen J. Landes, Locke Lord, Chicago
10:00-11:00 am | BREAKOUT SESSIONS II
- Merchant of Venice: Bankruptcy and Finance in American and Talmudic Law
Presenter: Rabbi Yona Reiss, Presiding Judge of the Chicago Rabbinical Council - Constitutional Rights in Tension: The Balancing Act of Religious Liberty Laws and Equal Protection Rights
Panelists: Alyza D. Lewin, Lewin & Lewin, Washington, DC; Professor Michael Avi Helfand, Pepperdine School of Law, Institute for Jewish Studies; Stephen Greenwald, President, American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
11:15 am-12:15 pm | BREAKOUT SESSIONS III
- SCOTUS Trinity Lutheran Case and the Jewish Community
Presenter: Professor Michael Avi Helfand, Pepperdine School of Law, Institute for Jewish Studies - Russia, Iran and North Korea: Trade Sanctions in Politics, Law and Jewish Ethics
Panelists: Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, Dean, Institute of American and Talmudic Law; Inna Tsimerman, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Chief Privacy and International Trade Counsel
12:15-1:30 pm | LUNCH AND KEYNOTE
Presumed Innocent: The Ethics of Professional Conductby SCOTT TUROW, acclaimed author and lawyer
1:45-3:00 pm | PLENARY SESSION I
- Are Jews Living and Building in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem Violating International Law?
Professor Malvina Halberstam, Cardozo School of Law, Counsellor on International Law, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser - UNRWA: How the United Nations’ Palestinian Refugee Industry Perpetuates and Serves the Crux of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Asaf Romirowksy, Executive Director, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East
3:15-4:45 pm | PLENARY SESSION II
- Making a Murderer: E volution of False and Coerced Confessions
Dr. Steven Drizin, Clinical Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law; Assistant Dean, Bluhm Legal Clinic; Attorney for Brendan Dassey of Netflix’s original documentary “Making a Murderer”
Professor Steven H. Resnicoff, DePaul College of Law Center for Judaic Law and Jewish Studies
4:45-5:30 pm | OPEN BAR AND NETWORKING
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