Part One
1. Judah Galinsky, Ashkenazim in Sefarad: The Rosh and the Tur on the Codification of Jewish Law
2. Ron S. Kleinman, Early Interpretations of the Bible and Talmud as a Reflection of Medieval Legal Realia
3. Yechezkel Lichtenshtein, Suicide as an Act of Atonement in Jewish Law
4. David Malkiel, The Burden of the Past in the Eighteenth Century: Authority, Custom and Innovation in the Pahad Yitzhak
Part Two
CONFERENCE PAPERS5. Hanina Ben-Menahem, Some Introductory Remarks on Genesis Rabbah and the Law
6. Charles Donahue, Jr., Genesis in Western Canon Law
7. Timothy D. Lytton, Due Process and Legal Authority in the Garden of Eden: Jurisprudence in Aggadic Midrash
Part Three
8. Martin Edelman, A Tale of Two Cultures: Conspicuous Religious Symbols in the Public Schools of France and the United States
9. Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in the State of Israel
a A rabbinical court decision regarding a dispute over the fate of pre-embryos
b Kofin al midat sdom: abuse of rights in Jewish law
c A definitive rabbinical court decision on the status of civil marriage
Part Four
Survey of Recent Literature
Style Sheet
Biography
Berachyahu Lifshitz
