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Informationen zum Autor Madeline Kochen, a former Law Professor at the University of Michigan, is a public interest lawyer and a Talmudic scholar, with a PhD in religion and political philosophy from Harvard University, Massachusetts. After representing indigent defendants on appeal at the Legal Aid Society, she worked as an attorney for the New York Civil Liberties Union, where she eventually founded and directed the NYCLU Reproductive Rights Project. Kochen has also taught at Harvard and at Stanford Law School, where she was an Assistant Dean. Her publications have appeared in Aramaic Studies in Judaism and Early Christianity, The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, the New York Law Journal and the Jewish Law Association Studies. Kochen has also served as a board member at the Michigan and Arizona ACLUs. Klappentext Offers a new theory of property and distributive justice derived from Talmudic law, illustrated by a case study involving the sale of organs for transplant. Zusammenfassung This book offers a new theory of property and distributive justice derived from Talmudic law! illustrated by a case study involving the sale of organs for transplant. Although organ donation did not exist in late antiquity! this book posits a new way! drawn from the Talmud! to conceive of this modern means of giving to others. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Beyond gift and commodity: rethinking the compartmentalization approach to the problem of commodification; 2. Alternate property conceptions: the donor's lien; 3. 'From the table of the most high': divine ownership and private property in Talmudic law; 4. 'And your brother shall live with you': the divine lien and the obligation to save human life; 5. Returning a 'lost body' with one's body: human organ transplantation and the (re)consecration of the body.
