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Volume XIV  | The Institute for Research in Jewish Law

Volume XIV 

Part I

 

Hanina Ben Menahem, Doubt, Choice and Conviction: A Comparison of the Kim Li Doctrine and Probablism 

3

Yitzchok A. Breitowitz, Halakhic Alternatives in IVF-Pregnancies: A Survey

29

Irwin H. Haut, z"l, Recovery for Fright, Shock and Emotional Distress under Jewish Law and Some Comparisons to the Common Law 

121

David Henshke, Agency and Divorce Proceedings: On the Legal Methodology of Maimonides' Mishne Torah

163

Ephraim Nissan, Review Article: Some Recent Work on Logic, Mathematics and Halakha 

259

Mair Raffeld, The Controversies of the Sages of Poland in the Sixteenth Century: A Chapter in the History of Jewish Law, Its General Rules and Methods of Decision-Making 

271

Bernard Septimus, Kings, Coinage and Constitutionalism: Notes on a Responsum of Nahmanides

295

Michael Wygoda, On the Relationship Between the Capacity to Perform a Legal Task and the Capacity to Appoint an Agent to Perform

315

 

 

Part II – Chronicle

 

Martin Edelman, "Something there is that doesn't Love a Wall"

353

Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in Israel and Around the World

367

The Validity of a gift made with the intention that it take effect only upon the donor's death

 

Does Showing films featuring Orthodox Jews on Shabat infringe their Basic Rights?

 

When one Life Overrides Another: Seperating Conjoined Twins in English and Jewish Law

 

 

 

Part III

 

Survey of Recent Literature

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Style Sheet

403