The Jewish Law Annual Volume 14

The Jewish Law Annual Volume 14
Author: The Institute of Jewish Law, Boston University of Law
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2003-12-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 113439246X

The volume contains ten articles, including a penetrating analysis of the application of Jewish price fraud law to the workings of the present-day marketplace. Diverse in their scope and focus, the articles address legal, historical, textual, comparative and conceptual questions. The volume concludes with a survey of recent literature on biblical and Jewish law, and a chronicle section, which discusses recent Israeli and American court cases involving issues where Jewish law is of particular relevance, thereby making the Annual a journal of record.

The Jewish Law Annual Volume 16

The Jewish Law Annual Volume 16
Author: Berachyahu Lifshitz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134164882

Volume 16 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish Law that have been published in volumes 1-15 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly material meeting the highest academic standards. The volume contains seven articles diverse in their scope and focus, encompassing legal, historic, textual, comparitive and conceptual analysis, as well as a chronicle of cases of interest, and a survey of recent literature. Three of the articles, one of which explores references to Genesis in (western) canon law, make up a special section on the book of Genesis. The other topics covered are: suicide as an act of atonement in Jewish law; early interpretations of the Bible and Talmud as reflecting medieval legal realia; Ashkenazic codifiers in Spain; and authority, custom and innovation in the seventeenth-century Italian halakhic encyclopedia, Pahad Yitzhak.

The Jewish Law Annual Volume 14

The Jewish Law Annual Volume 14
Author: The Institute of Jewish Law, Boston University of Law
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2003-12-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134392451

The volume contains ten articles, including a penetrating analysis of the application of Jewish price fraud law to the workings of the present-day marketplace. Diverse in their scope and focus, the articles address legal, historical, textual, comparative and conceptual questions. The volume concludes with a survey of recent literature on biblical and Jewish law, and a chronicle section, which discusses recent Israeli and American court cases involving issues where Jewish law is of particular relevance, thereby making the Annual a journal of record.

Jewish Law Annual (Vol 6)

Jewish Law Annual (Vol 6)
Author: Bertrand Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134331894

First Published in 1987. This is Volume six of the annual published under the auspices of the Institute of Jewish Law of the Boston University School of Law. The symposium on the Philosophy of Jewish Law, which forms the main content of both this and the next issue, represents a major contribution to an area of investigation which has attracted increasing interest in recent years.

Jewish Law Annual (Vol 7)

Jewish Law Annual (Vol 7)
Author: Bernard S Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2021-12-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134332386

First Published in 1988. The Annual is published under the auspices of The Institute of Jewish Law, Boston University School of Law, in conjunction with the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies and the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. This volume concludes the symposium on the philosophy of Jewish law which started in Volume 6. It concludes with a response by the late Julius Stone to most of the preceding articles. This edition looks at natural law and Judaism, Halakhah and the Covenant; Jewish attitudes towards the taking of human life; mortality; and a study of Solomon Freehof.

The Jewish Law Annual Volume 5

The Jewish Law Annual Volume 5
Author: Bernard Jackson S
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134959427

Volume 15 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1-14 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly material meeting the highest academic standards. The volume contains six articles diverse in their scope and focus, encompassing legal, historical, textual, comparative and conceptual analysis, as well as a survey of recent literature and a chronicle of cases of interest. Among the topics covered are: lying in rabbinical court proceedings; unjust enrichment; can a witness serve as judge in the same case?; Caro's Shulham Arukh v. Maimonides' Mishne Torah in the Yemenite community, the New Jersey eruv wards.

The Jewish Law Annual Volume 18

The Jewish Law Annual Volume 18
Author: Berachyahu Lifshitz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136996206

Topics covered include: spousal withholding of conjugal relations; halakhic understandings of the parent–child relationship; corporal punishment of children; the prohibition against seeking a second ruling after something has been declared forbidden; the agent who carries out his mandate for his own benefit, not the principal’s; mid-twentieth century London organizations for the advancement of Jewish law.

Jewish Law Annual (Vol 10)

Jewish Law Annual (Vol 10)
Author: Bernard S Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134336098

First Published in 1992. This collection of papers is Volume ten from The Jewish Law Institute. Split onto three parts, it covers the area of Parent and Child, including amongst others, offences punishable by death, child custody, Parents and Children under Moslem Law, Physical Violence and Herod’s Domestic Court. . Part two entitled Chronicle, has examples of cases and Part three includes a survey of recent literature.

Jewish Law Annual (Vol 11)

Jewish Law Annual (Vol 11)
Author: Bernard S. Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317836685

First published in 2004. This collection of papers is Volume eleven of the The Jewish Law Institute. Split onto two parts, it covers topics such as The Rabbinic Law on Entry and Seizure, the Problem of Priority in Civil Law, Analogical Argument in Early Jewish law amongst others. Part two entitled Chronicle, has examples of cases.