The Jewish Law Annual Volume 19

ISBN-13: 9780415619585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 280 str.

Berachyahu Lifshitz

Opis

Volume 19 of The Jewish Law Annual is a festschrift in honor of Professor Neil S. Hecht.

Spis treści

1. The Prosbul–A Legal Fiction?; 2. Shame Punishment in Jewish LegalCulture: Some Preliminary Observations; 3. Refusal to Give a Get: Tort Damages and theRecalcitrant Spouse in Contemporary Jewish Law; 4. Ruth’s Conversion: Then and Now, 5. The End of Life in Jewish Law; 6. Man as a Synthesis of Body and Spirit:A Jewish Perspectives; 7.  Framing Jewish Law for the Contemporary Law School; 8. Normative Transparency in Jewish Law:Maimonides, R. Moses Sofer and R. Abraham Isaac Kook; 9. The Tort of Negligent Misrepresentation in Investment Planning: A Comparative Analysis; 10. On Conduct Rules and Decision Rules in Jewish Law; 11. Promises in Talmudic Law and Persian Law; 12. Maimonides on the "Two Witnesses" Requirement; 13. The Official Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem (1841-1921), its Composition and Status

O autorze

Berachyahu Lifshitz is Professor of Comparative law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Law.