Oxford conference volume
By: edited by A.M. Fuss.
Contributors: Fuss, Abraham M.
Series: Jewish Law Association studies -- 3
Publisher: Scholars Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Atlanta, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Jewish law -- Congresses.; Jewish ethics -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Proceedings of the third International Congress of The Jewish Law Association, held at Hertford College, Oxford, July 1984"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Some semiotic questions for biblical law / Bernard S. Jackson; value: Judicial ethics in Jewish law / Jacob Bazak; value: Ethical standards for public servants in Jewish law / Nahum Rakover; value: The fugitive slave in the legislation of the ancient Near East and as elaborated in rabbinic jurisprudence / Daniela Piattelli; value: Notes on violence and combative behavior in Jewish law / S.M. Passamaneck; value: Artificial heart implantation / J. David Bleich; value: Euthanasia and reform Judaism / Dan Cohn-Sherbok; value: The legal question of the investigation of converts / David Novak; value: The role of the Ten Commandments in American judicial decisions / Bernard J. Meislin.