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Jewish Law and American Law : a Comparative Study, Volume 2.

This volume contributes to the growing field of comparative Jewish and American law, turning to Jewish law to provide insights into substantive and conceptual areas of the American legal system, particularly areas of American law that are complex, controversial, and unsettled.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levine, Samuel J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Academic Studies Press, 2018.
Colección:Touro College Press Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Section Six Law and Narrative
  • 17. Halacha and Aggada: Translating Robert Cover's Nomos and Narrative
  • 18. Professionalism without Parochialism: Julius Henry Cohen, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, and the Stories of Two Sons
  • Section Seven Legal History
  • 19. Lost in Translation: The Strange Journey of an Anti-Semitic Fabrication, from a Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Newspaper to an Irish Legal Journal to a Leading Twentieth-Century American Criminal Law Textbook
  • 20. Louis Marshall, Julius Henry Cohen, Benjamin Cardozo, and the New York Emergency Rent Laws of 1920: A Case Study in the Role of Jewish Lawyers and Jewish Law in Early Twentieth-Century Public Interest Litigation
  • 21. Jewish Law from out of the Depths: Tragic Choices in the Holocaust
  • 22. Untold Stories of Goldman v. Weinberger: Religious Freedom Confronts Military Uniformity
  • 23. Richard Posner Meets Reb Chaim of Brisk: A Comparative Study in the Founding of Legal Intellectual Movements
  • Section Eight Law and Public Policy
  • 24. Reflections on Responsibilities in the Public Square Through a Perspective of Jewish Tradition: A Brief Biblical Survey
  • 25. Looking beyond the Mercy/Justice Dichotomy: Reflections on the Complementary Roles of Mercy and Justice in Jewish Law and Tradition
  • 26. Teshuva: A Look at Repentance, Forgiveness, and Atonement in Jewish Law and Philosophy and American Legal Thought
  • Index