Introduction to the Legal Arena - (original) (raw)

Laws and Ritual

The Jewish Legal Tradition, 2025

Uncorrected proofs for my contribution to a volume on the Jewish legal tradition

Jewish Law

Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (2023), 2023

Jewish law has been the legal tradition of the Jewish people over the course of its thousands of years of existence. In important respects, its influence has reached beyond the life of the Jewish people, to the whole of Western law. Over its long history, Jewish law evolved a legal approach with unique features. After reviewing key points about the history and the classic works of Jewish law, this entry addresses several of its most general characteristics, namely, revelation and wisdom, sovereignty and exile, and rights and duties. It closes with a discussion of the role of Jewish law in modern Israeli law. This is a draft entry. The final version will be available in Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, edited by Katherine Valcke, forthcoming 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. The material cannot be used for any other purpose without further permission of the publisher, and is for private use only.

Introduction to Legal Studies Section

Concepts of Law in the Sciences, Legal Studies, and Theology; ed. Michael Welker and Gregor Etzelmüller, 2013

This article analyzes the shifting concepts of law in Western law and thought in early modern times and today. It first shows how the modern movement of interdisciplinary legal studies emerged as a corrective to the narrow positivist concepts of law that prevailed before the 1960s. It then shows how, in anticipation of modern methods, earlier Protestant legal thinkers had already worked hard to reconcile biblical and human laws, natural and positive laws, canon and civil laws, cases and legal codes in pursuit of a more integrated jurisprudence.

Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture

2012

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