Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture Volume 2 - Fourteen Exploratory Essays

This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained journey, as it were, into a feature of the Jewish legal landscape. In other words, rather than taking a structural approach, and attempting to neatly ci

List of contents

Volume 2: Law and ethics 8. Equity 9. Charity and distributive justice 10. Euthanasia Private law 11. Agency 12. Employee and independent contractor 13. Unjust enrichment 14. Free market competition

About the author

Hanina Ben-Menahem is Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and the Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law at the Harvard Law School, USA.
Arye Edrei is Professor of Law at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
Neil S. Hecht is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Jewish Law at Boston University School of Law, USA.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hanina Ben-Menahem (Editor), Ben-Menahem Hanina (Editor), Arye Edrei (Editor), Arye (Tel Aviv University Edrei (Editor), Edrei Arye (Editor), Neil S. Hecht (Editor), Hecht Neil S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032921051
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92105-1
• No. of pages: 370
• Weight: 680 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, RELIGION / Judaism / General, LAW / Jurisprudence, RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice, Politics & government, Judaism: life & practice, Judaism, Judaism: life and practice, Politics and government, Jurisprudence & general issues, Jurisprudence and general issues