1st Edition
The Jewish Law Annual Volume 14
By The Institute of Jewish Law, Boston University of Law
Copyright 2003
416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
Part 1 DOUBT, CHOICE AND CONVICTION: A COMPARISON OF THE KIM LI DOCTRINE AND PROBABILISM, HANINA BEN-MENAHEM; Chapter 2 HALAKHIC ALTERNATIVES IN IVF-PREGNANCIES: A SURVEY, YITZCHOK A. BREITOWITZ; Chapter 3 RECOVERY FOR FRIGHT, SHOCK AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS UNDER JEWISH LAW, AND SOME COMPARISONS TO THE COMMON LAW, IRWIN H. HAUT, zl; Chapter 4 AGENCY AND DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS: ON THE LEGAL METHODOLOGY OF MAIMONIDES' MISHNE TORAH, DAVID HENSHKE; Chapter 5 HALAKHA AND METZIUT (REALIA) IN MEDIEVAL ASHKENAZ: SURVEYING THE PARAMETERS AND DEFINING THE LIMITS, EPHRAIM KANARFOGEL; Chapter 6 ONAA AND THE OPERATION OF THE MODERN MARKETPLACE, AARON LEVINE; Chapter 7 REVIEW ARTICLE, EPHRAIM NISSAN; Chapter 8 THE CONTROVERSIES OF THE SAGES OF POLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: A Chapter IN THE HISTORY OF JEWISH LAW, ITS GENERAL RULES AND METHODS OF DECISION-MAKING, MEIR RAFFELD; Chapter 9 KINGS, COINAGE AND CONSTITUTIONALISM: NOTES ON A RESPONSUM OF NAHMANIDES, BERNARD SEPTIMUS; Chapter 10 ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CAPACITY TO PERFORM A LEGAL TASK AND THE CAPACITY TO APPOINT AN AGENT TO PERFORM IT, MICHAEL WYGODA; Part 2 CHRONICLE; Chapter 11 SOMETHING THERE IS THAT DOESN'T LOVE A WALL, MARTIN EDELMAN; Chapter 12 JEWISH LAW IN ISRAEL AND AROUND THE WORLD, DANIEL B. SINCLAIR; Part 3 SURVEY OF RECENT LITERATURE; Chapter 14 STYLE SHEET;
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