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Volume 6 | The Faculty of Law

Volume 6

Volume VI 
Part I – The Philosophy of Jewish Law

  • Bernard S. Jackson, Secular Jurisprudence and the Philosophy of Jewish Law: A Commentary on Some Recent Literature - 3
  • Emanuel Rackman, Secular Jurisprudence and Halakha - 45
  • Jacob I. Dienstag, Natural Law in Maimonidean Thought and Scholarship (On Mishneh Torah, Kings VIII, II) - 64
  • Oliver Leaman, Maimonides and Natural Law - 78
  • Louis Jacobs, Tur, Preface to Hoshen Mishpat – Translation and Commentary - 94
  • Rivka Schatz, Maharal's Conception of Law – Antithesis to Natural Law Theory - 109
  • Norman Solomon, Anomaly and Theory in the Analytical School - 126
  • Alan J. Yuter, Legal Positivism and Contemporary Halakhic Discourse - 148
  • Hanina Ben Menachem, Is there Always One Uniquely Correct Answer to a Legal Question in the Talmud? - 164

Part II – Chronicle

        Current Responsa,

 Decisions of Bate Din and Rabbinical Literature: (J.D Bleich)

  • Judges Under Threat - 179
  • Teachers's Unions - 183


Jewish Law in the State of Israel (D.B Sinclair)

  • Indue Influence and Conflict of Interests - 186
  • The Agnostic Witness and the Oath - 188
  • Refund of Estate Duty - 192
  • Rape of a Wife - 194
  • Good Faith in Fulfilling Contractual Obligations - 196
  • Illegal Contracts - 199
  • "Beyond the Letter of the Law" - 203
  • Necessity - 206
  • Non-Financial Pressures on a Husband to Grant a "Get" (V. New) - 210
  • Towards a New Regulation of the Relations Between the State and Italian Jewry (D. Piattelli) - 216
  • German Legislation Against Denying the Holocaust (E. Klingenberg) - 219


Part III

 

  • Survey of Recent Literature - 225