Windows onto Jewish legal culture
Subtitle: fourteen exploratory essays
By: Hanina Ben-Menahem, Arye Edrei, and Neil S. Hecht
Contributors: Edrei, Arye; Hecht, Neil S.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415359788; 9780415782517; 9780415500494
Subjects: Mishpat Ivri
Description: Jewish legal culture spans two millennia, and evolved in geographic centers that were often very distant from one another both geographically and socio-culturally. It encompasses the Talmud and talmudic literature, the law codes, the rulings of rabbinical courts, the responsa literature, extra-judicial decisions taken by judges and communal leaders, study of the law in talmudic academies, the local study hall, and the home. But Jewish legal culture reaches well beyond legal and quasi-legal institutions; it addresses, and is reflected in, every aspect of daily life, from meals and attire to interpersonal and communal relations. The book gives the reader a taste of the tremendous weight of Jewish legal culture within Jewish life.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Controversy; title: Legal formalism; title: Exigency authority; title: Erroneous rulings; title: Finality of judgment; title: Self-help; title: Law of the pursuer; title: Equity; title: Charity and distributive justice; title: Euthanasia; title: Agency; title: Employee and independent contractor; title: Unjust enrichment; title: Free market competition.