Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture Volume 1 - 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.

Sommario

Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Distinguishing Features 1. Controversy 2. Legal Formalism Part 3: Law and ethics 3. Equity 4. Charity 5. Euthanasia Part 3: Judicial process 6. Exigency Authority 7. Erroneous Rulings 8. Finality of Judgment

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Hanina Ben-Menahem (Editore), Ben-Menahem Hanina (Editore), Arye Edrei (Editore), Arye (Tel Aviv University Edrei (Editore), Edrei Arye (Editore), Neil S. Hecht (Editore), Hecht Neil S. (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032922027
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92202-7
• Pagine: 344
• Peso: 640 g
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto civile, diritto processuale civile; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Ebraismo; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, LAW / Jurisprudence, RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice, Politics & government, Judaism: life & practice, Judaism: life and practice, Politics and government, Jurisprudence & general issues, Jurisprudence and general issues