Volume XVI
Part I
- Judah Galinsky, Ashkenazim in Sefard: The Rosh and the Tur on the Codification of Jewish Law - 3
- Ron S. Kleinman, Early Interpretations of the Bible and Talmud as a Reflection of Medieval Legal Realia - 25
- Yechezkel Lichtenshtein, Suicide as an Act of Atonement in Jewish Law - 51
- David Malkiel, The Burden of the Past in the Eighteenth Century: Authority, custom and Innovation in the Pahad Yitzhak - 93
Part II – Conference Papers
- Hanina Ben-Menahem, Some Introductory Remarks on Genesis Rabbah and the Law - 135
- Charles Donahue, Jr., Genesis in Western Canon Law - 155
- Timothy D. Lytton, Due Process and Legal Authority in the Garden of Eden: Jurisprudence in Aggadic Midrash - 185
Part III – Chronicle
- Martin Edelman, A Tale of Two Cultures: Conspicuous Religious Symbols in the Public Schools of France and the United States - 205
- Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in the State of Israel - 221
- A Rabbinical Court Decision Regarding a Dispute Over the Fate of Pre-Embryos
- Kofin al Midat Sdom: Abuse of rights in Jewish Law
- A Definite Rabbinical Court Decision on the Status of Civil Marriage
Part IV
- Survey of Recent Literature - 245
- Style Sheet - 253