The Jewish Law Annual Volume 14

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-134-39245-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Reihe: Jewish Law Annual

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.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1

1. Hanina Ben-Menahem Doubt, Choice and Conviction: A Comparison of the Kim Li Doctrine and Probabilism

2. Yitzchok A. Breitowitz Halakhic Alternatives in IVF-Pregnancies: A Survey

3. Irwin H. Haut z"l, Recovery for Fright, Shock and Emotional Distress under Jewish Law, and Some Comparisons to the Common Law

4. David Henshke Agency and Divorce Proceedings: On the Legal Methodology of Maimonides' Mishne Torah

5. Ephraim Kanarfogel Halakha and Metziut (Realia) in Medieval Ashkenaz: Surveying the Parameters and Defining the Limits

6. Aaron Levine Onaa and the Operation of the Modern Marketplace

7. Ephraim Nissan Review Article: Some Recent Work on Logic, Mathematics and Halakha

8. Meir Raffeld 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

9. Bernhard Septimus Kings, Coinage and Constitutionalism: Notes on a Responsum of Nahmanides

10. Michael Wygoda On the Relationship between the Capacity to Perform a Legal Task and the Capacity to Appoint an Agent to Perform it

Part 2: Chronicle

11. Martin Edelman 'Something there is that doesn't love a wall'

12. Daniel B. Sinclair Jewish Law in Israel and around the World

Part 3

13. Survey of Recent Literature