Levine Jewish Law and American Law, Volume 2

A Comparative Study
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-64469-564-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten

Reihe: Touro University Press

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levine, Samuel J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Intellectual Legal 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

Über Autor(innen)

Samuel J. Levine is Professor of Law and Director of the Jewish Law Institute at Touro Law Center. He has also served as the Beznos Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University College of Law, and he has taught at the law schools at Bar-Ilan, Fordham, Pepperdine, and St. John’s Universities.