Full Description
Volume 22 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1-21 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential, historical, textual and comparative analysis of issues in Jewish law.
This volume features articles on rabbinic criminal law, tort law, jurisprudence, and judicial practice.
Contents
Jacob ADLER, The Mystery of the Bursting Belly: Divine Punishment in mSanhedrin 9:5; Hanina BEN MENAHEM, Dworcules, Jewish law, and the Doctrine of Legal Error; Amy BIRKAN, On the Plaintiff's Duty to Avoid Harm in Rabbinic Law; Yitshak COHEN and Shai FARBER, Third Parties' Intervention in Jewish Law: New Friends (Amicus) in the Rabbinical Courts Litigation; Yishai KIEL, Complicity and Accessory, Aiding and Abetting: The Contribution of Jewish Law to the Doctrine of Accomplice Liability; Asaf YEDIDYA, From Germany to Jerusalem, from Community to State: The Separate Paths Taken by Neo-Orthodox Jurists Abraham Chaim Freimann and Isaac Breuer; Book Reviews David B. SCHORR, Yuval Sinai and Benjamin Shmueli, Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory; Norman SOLOMON, Shai Wozner, Legal Thinking in the Lithuanian Yeshivoth: The Heritage and Works of Rabbi Shimon Shkop (Hebrew); Style Sheet
