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Emerging Applications of Jewish Law in American Legal Scholarship: An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

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AALS Jewish Law Section Papers
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2007

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1. See Stone, Suzanne Last, In Pursuit of the Counter-Text: The Turn to the Jewish Legal Model in Contemporary American Legal Theory, 106 Harv. L. Rev. 813 (1993)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also sources cited in Levine, Samuel J., Teaching Jewish Law in American Law Schools: An Emerging Development in Law and Religion, 26 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1051 (1999)Google Scholar [hereinafter Levine, Teaching Jewish Law: An Emerging Development]; Levine, Samuel J., Teaching Jewish Law in American Law Schools-Part II: An Annotated Syllabus, 2 Chi-Kent J. Intl. & Comp. L. 1 (2002)Google Scholar [hereinafter Levine, Teaching Jewish Law: An Annotated Syllabus[.

2. See Levine, Teaching Jewish Law: An Annotated Syllabus, supra n. 1, at n. 2, 4. See also Cohn, Sherman L., Yale Rosenberg: The Scholar and the Teacher of Jewish Law, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 872 (2002)Google Scholar; Rabin, Edward H., Symposium: The Evolution and Impact of Jewish Law, Foreword, 1 U.C. Davis J. Intl. L. & Policy 56 (1995)Google Scholar; Roth, Jeffrey I., Fraud on the Surviving Spouse in Jewish and American Law: A Model Chapter for a Jewish Law Casebook, 28 Case W. Res. J. Intl. L. 101 (1996)Google Scholar; Sokobin, Alan M., A Program in Comparative Jewish Law, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 795 (2002)Google Scholar.

3. These institutes include the Institute of Jewish Law at Boston University School of Law, the Institute of Jewish Law at Touro College/Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, http://www.tourolaw.edu/academic_programs/institutes/jewish_law_institute.asp, and the Program in Jewish Law & Interdisciplinary Studies at The Yeshiva University Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Cardozo Law School, http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/cjl/.

4. These programs include Emory University School of Law, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/index.php?id=1570; Fordham University School of Law, Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer's Work, http://law.fordham.edu/lawreligion.htm; Pepperdine University School of Law, Institute on Law, Religion and Ethics, http://law.pepperdine.edu/ilre/.

5. See sources cited in Levine, Samuel J., Jewish Legal Theory and American Constitutional Theory: Some Comparisons and Contrasts, 24 Hastings Const. L.Q. 441, 442443, nn. 3-11 (1997)Google Scholar; Levine, Teaching Jewish Law: An Annotated Syllabus, supra n. 1, passim; Levine, Teaching Jewish Law: An Emerging Development, supra n. 1, at 1045-1050.

6. See bibliog., “Criminal Law and Punishment,” infra p. 46.

7. See bibliog., “Legal Ethics,” infra p 48.

8. See bibliog., “Health Law and Bioethics,” infra p. 47.

9. See bibliog., “Torts,” infra p. 50.

10. See bibliog., “Real and Intellectual Property,” infra p. 50.

11. See bibliog., “Environmental Law,” infra p. 46.

12. See e.g. bibliog., “Jurisprudence,” infra p. 47.

13. See e.g. bibliog., “Legal Interpretation,” infra p. 49.

14. See e.g. bibliog., “Law and Narrative,” infra p. 48.

15. See e.g. bibliog., “Law and Economics,” infra p. 48.

16. The principal papers were presented by Professors Adam S. Chodorow of Arizona State University College of Law, Charlotte K. Goldberg of Loyola of Los Angeles Law School, and Chaim Saiman, of Villanova University School of Law. Papers by Professors Chodorow and Saiman are included in the present volume.

17. Comments at the program were provided by Dean Saul Levmore of the University of Chicago Law School, and Professor Suzanne Last Stone of Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. In addition, although they were unable to attend the program, Professor Kent Greenawalt of Columbia University School of Law and Professor David Skeel of the University of Pennsylvania Law School have contributed comments to the present volume.

19. See also Chodorow, Adam S., Maaser Kesafim and The Development of Tax Law, 8 Fla. Tax. Rev. 153 (2007)Google Scholar; Chodorow, Adam S., Tithing, Taxes, and Complexity, 62 Pitt. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2007)Google Scholar.

20. See e.g. Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (McConnell, Michael W., Cochran, Robert F. Jr., & Carmella, Angela C. eds., Yale U. Press 2001)Google Scholar; Faith and Law: How Religious Traditions from Calvinism to Islam View American Law (Cochran, Robert ed., N.Y. U. Press 2007)Google Scholar; The Teachings of Modern Christianity On Law, Politics & Human Nature: Volume One (Witte, John Jr. & Alexander, Frank S. eds., Colum. U. Press 2006)Google Scholar.