FLYER

• What: Teachers’ Workshop
• Where: at the Robbins Collection, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
• When: Saturday, March 29th, 2008, 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
• Registration
• Reading:
  • Roman Legal Tradition and the Compilation of Justinian - Julianne Guilland
  • Lecture notes for What’s in a document? A look at Justinian and Roman Law
    

Presenter: Dr. Julianne Gilland, assistant director of the Robbins Collection.

This meeting will explore the role of documents in the creation and continuity of history and tradition. With a focus on Justinian and Roman law as a basis for our discussion, we will consider the importance of writing and documentation to the development of laws, legal traditions, and empires.

Using rare material from the Robbins Collection at the School of Law, we will take an up-close look at original and facsimile manuscripts and print editions of Justinian’s Code, Digest, and Institutes dating from the 6th through the 16th centuries. Our aim will be to “decode” selections from some of these works to make them accessible and to learn more about what the documents themselves—not just in their text, but in their structure and appearance—have to tell us about how a legal tradition forms and evolves over time.

This workshop is free and open to all K-12 educators and librarians.

Space is limited. Registration required. Lunch and materials included.

Registration at: http://orias.berkeley.edu
Contact Michele Delattre: orias@berkeley.edu | 510-643-0868

The Robbins Collection ranks among the very best research libraries in the world in the fields of religious and civil law. Among its holdings are extensive collections in comparative law, jurisprudence, and legal history in general with an emphasis on continental Europe. Included are over 275 manuscripts, the majority of which are medieval, over 200 incunables, and another 2,300 titles which were printed before 1600.

Co-sponsored by the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) funded by Title VI grants from the U. S. Department of Education.

For further information contact Michele Delattre at ORIAS: 510-643-0868 or oriasberkeley.edu