What Should Inheritance Law Be?

Monday, 11/7/05
20:00 Keynote Addresses
Moderation: Sigrid Weigel

Joseph Jenkins (University of California, Humanities Research Institute, and University of California at Los Angeles, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature): Inheritance Law as Constellation in Lieu of Redress: A Detour Through Exceptional Terrain

Kenneth Reinhard (University of California at Los Angeles, English and Comparative Literature):
"Les Noms du Père or Les Non-Dupes Errent?" Psychoanalysis and the Legacies of the Father

Tuesday, 12/7/05
I. OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT
Moderation: Kenneth Reinhard

10:00
Calum Carmichael (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Comparative Literature and Law):
Ideas underlying Inheritance Law in Biblical Sources

Martin Treml (ZfL):
Heir and Heritage in New Testament Writings

Thomas Carlson (Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara):
Genetic Technology, Human Property, and the Law of Inheritance: A Question of Religion

II. DEBT, GUILT, MONEY
Moderation: Joseph Jenkins

14.00
Thomas Frank (ZfL):
Franciscan Poverty (13th and 14th Century)

Sigrid Weigel (ZfL):
The Heritage of Debts and Guilt – From Heinrich Heine to Sigmund Freud

Richard Weisberg (Cardozo School of Law, New York, New York):
Inheritance Law and the Case of the Out-of-Wedlock Child

17.00
III. ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION (All Participants):
What Should Inheritance Law Be?
Moderation: Stefan Willer (ZfL)