Keynote
Professor Tamar Herzog
Tamar Herzog is the Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard University and Affiliate Professor of the Harvard Law School. As a legal historian her work is always embedded in economic and social historical developments. She demonstrates a strong interest in how individuals and communities experienced and interacted with day-to-day realities of legal, governmental, and cultural structures. Her published work combines different geographic scales – from cities to continents – and different time periods between the fifteenth and the twentieth centuries. In her keynote at the Posthumus conference she will demonstrate why legal history matters for economic and social history.