B.S Jackson, Introduction

E. Lipinski, The Wife's Right to Divorce in the Light of an Ancient Near Eastern Tradition

Yair Zakovitch, The Woman's Rights in the Biblical Law of Divorce

Evald Lovestam, Divorce and Remarriage in the New Testament

Daniela Piattelli, The Marriage Contract and Bill of Divorce in Ancient Hebrew law

Alfredo Mordechai Rabello, Divorce of Jews in the Roman Empire

Mordechai A. Friedman, Divorce upon the wife's demand as reflected in Mnuscripts from the Cairo Geniza

Shmuel Shilo, Impotence as a ground for divorce (to the End of the Period of the Rishonim)

Mark Washofsky, The Recalcitrant Husband: The Problem of Definition

J. David Bleich, Modern-Day Agunot: A Proposed Remedy

David Novak, Annulment in Lieu of Divorce in Jewish Law

M. Chigier, Ruminations over the Agunah Problem

David Pearl, The Wife's Right to Divorce in Muslim Law

J. Duncan M. Derrett, Divorce at the Petition of the Wife at Hindu Law

Bernard J. Meislin, Pursuit of the Wife's Right to a "Get" in United States and Canadian Courts

Stern v. Stern, Judgment of Gerald S. Held, J.S.C.

M.D.A Freeman, Jews and the Law of Divorce in England

Survey of Recent Literature

M. Shava, The Nature and Scope of Jewish Law in Israel as Applied in the Civil Courts as Compared with its Application in the Rabbinical Courts

 Meir Sichel, Air Pollution – Smoke and Odor Damage

M. Chigier, The Widow's Rights in Jewish and Israeli Law

D.B. Sinclair, Kupat Am Bank v. Hendeles 

Current Responsa, Decisions of Bate Din and Rabbinical Literature (J.D. Bleich) 

Indirect Coercion in Compelling a Get

Copyright

The Foundations of Law Act, 1980 and Its Implementation (N. Rakover)

Varia Americana (B.J. Meislin)

When Jewish Reference is Irrelevant and Prejudicial and when it is Relevant and Determinative

The Right of a Public Entity to Lease Airport Land to a Synagouge

Civil Treatment of a Rabbi

Blasphemy in English Criminal Law (R. v. Lemon) (G.H. Gordon, with a postscript by B.S. Jackson)

Industrial and Race Relations in England (Seide v. Gillette Industries Ltd.) – M. Jefferson

Survey of Recent Literature

Index of Reent Literature, with Author Index

Part I – The Philosophy of Jewish Law

Bernard S. Jackson, Secular Jurisprudence and the Philosophy of Jewish Law: A Commentary on Some Recent Literature

3

Emanuel Rackman, Secular Jurisprudence and Halakha

45

Jacob I. Dienstag, Natural Law in Maimonidean Thought and Scholarship (On Mishneh Torah, Kings VIII, II)

64

Oliver Leaman, Maimonides and Natural Law

78

Louis Jacobs, Tur, Preface to Hoshen Mishpat – Translation and Commentary

94

Rivka Schatz, Maharal's Conception of Law – Antithesis to Natural Law Theory

109

Norman Solomon, Anomaly and Theory in the Analytical School

126

Alan J. Yuter, Legal Positivism and Contemporary Halakhic Discourse

148

Hanina Ben Menachem, Is there Always One Uniquely Correct Answer to a Legal Question in the Talmud?

164

Part II – Chronicle

Current Responsa, Decisions of Bate Din and Rabbinical Literature: (J.D Bleich)

Judges Under Threat

179

Teachers's Unions

183

Jewish Law in the State of Israel (D.B Sinclair)

Indue Influence and Conflict of Interests

186

The Agnostic Witness and the Oath

188

Refund of Estate Duty

192

Rape of a Wife

194

Good Faith in Fulfilling Contractual Obligations

196

Illegal Contracts

199

"Beyond the Letter of the Law" 

203

Necessity 

206

Non-Financial Pressures on a Husband to Grant a "Get" (V. New)

210

Towards a New Regulation of the Relations Between the State and Italian Jewry (D. Piattelli)

216

German Legislation Against Denying the Holocaust (E. Klingenberg)

219

Part III

Survey of Recent Literature

225

Part I – The Philosophy of Jewish Law

J. David Bleich, Judaism and Natural Law

5

David Novak, Natural Law, Halakha and the Covenant

43

Elliot N. Dorff, The Covenant: The Transcendent Thrust in Jewish Law

68

Moshe Sokol, Some Tensions in the Jewish Attitude Toward the Taking of Human Life

97

Izhak Englard, The Interaction of Morality and Jewish Law

114

Abraham M. Fuss, Fact Skepticism in Jewish Law

125

Lawrence Kaplan, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik Philosophy of Halakha

139

Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Law in Reform Judaism: A Study of Solomon Freehof

198

Julius Stone, Leeways of Choice, Natural Law and Justice in Jewish Legal Ordering

210

Part II – Chronicle

Survey of Recent Literature

255

Part I – Papers from Ramat Rahel

Jacob Bazak, The Meaning of the Term "Justice and Righteousness" in the Bible

5

Bernard S. Jackson, Jewish Law or Jewish Laws

15

Alan Yuter, Is Halakhah Really Law?

35

H. Joel Laks, Three Proposals Regarding the Relationship of Law and Morality in the Halakhah

53

Dennis Kurzon, Iconic Syntax in Rabbinical Codes

71

Stephen M. Passamaneck, Man Proposes Heaven Disposes

85

Lionel Kochan, Towards a Rabbinic Theory of Idolatry

99

Berachyahu Lifshitz, The Doctrine of Res Judaica

127

Eberhard Klingenberg, Judgment and Settlement in Court in Jewish and Comparative Legal History

135

Jean Jofen, The Jewish Law of Usury as Seen in Elizabethan Literature

147

Ya'akov Meron, Practical Application of the Foundations of Law Act

159

Part II – Chronicle

Varia Americana (Martin Edelman) 

Entangling Alliances: The Agunah Problem in the Light of Avitzur v. Avitzur 

193

Goldman v. Weinberger: Yarmulkes, The Supreme Court and the Free Exercise of Religion

210

Jews and Sunday Trading in Britain: The Private Control of Public Legislation (Geoffrey Alderman)

Public Legislation (Geoffrey Alderman)

221

Stunning before Slaughter in the EEC (G.M Golding)

238

Jewish Law in the State of Israel (D.B Sinclair) 

Good Faith in Administrative Decisions 

239

Legal Formalism and Individual Justice 

242

Social Legislation in the Federal Republic of Germany (Eberhard Klingenberg)

245

Towards Halakhic Unity?: The Bricto Proposals

247

Halakha with Humility (Sidney Brichto)

253

Comment on the Brichto Proposals (Louis Jacobs)

253

Halakha 0 Developmental and Pluralistic (Moshe Zemer)

259

Comments on Rabbi Dr. Brichto and Rabbi Dr. Jacobs (B. Berkovits)

269

A Response to the Recent Proposal of Rabbi Dr. Sidney Brichto (David Novak)

289

Part I – Criminal Law: Husband and Wife

S.M, Passamaneck, Aspects of Physical Violence Against Persons in Karo's Shulhan Arukh

5

Peretz Segal, Postbiblical Jewish Criminal Law and Theology

107

Aaron Kirchenbaum, The Role of Punishment in Jewish Criminal Law: A Chapter in Rabbinic Penological Thought

123

Mordechai Frishtik, Physical and Sexual Violence by Husbands as a Reason for Imposing a Divorce in Jewish Law

145

Samuel Morell, Profile of a Jurist: Joseph Ibn Lev's rulings Regarding Agunot

171

Russell K. Ryan, And Then There Was One: An Analysis and Comparison of Polygamy Among Jews and Mormons

205

Part II – Chronicle

Contemporary Halakha (J. David Bleich)

Checks

235

Jewish Law in the State of Israel (D.B. Sinclair)

Custody and the Role of Women in Their Children's Education 

251

Brain Death 

257

Conscientious Objection 

262

Registration of a Convert 

265

Part III

Survey of Recent Literature

271

Part I – Parent and Child

D.B. Sinclair, Introduction

3

Joseph Flieshman, Offences Against Parents Punishable by Death: Towards a Socio-Legal Interpretation of Ex. 21:15

17

Alfredo Mordechai Rabello, Herod's Domestic Court? The Judgment of Death for Herod's Sons

39

Shlomo Nahmias, The Law and the Relationship between Parents and Children

57

Mordechai Frishtik, Physical Violence by Parents Against Their Children in Jewish History and Jewish Law

79

Moshe Zemer, Purifying Mamzerim

99

Eliav Shochetman, On the Nature of the Rules Governing Custody of Children in Jewish Law

115

Pinhas Shifman, The Welfare of the Child and Religious Considerations

159

Elimelech Westreich, A Father's Obligation to Maintain His Children in Talmudic Law

177

Ya'akov Meron, Parents and Children under Moslem Law

213

Antoine Garapon, From a Debate on Family Law to a Debate on Children's Rights

235

Part II – Chronicle

Martin Edelman, Limits Without Walls: Constricting Religious Freedom in the United States

247

Messianic Jews and the Law of Return

259

Celebration and Registration of Marriages by Reform Rabbis

263

Defining Conversion to Judaism

267

Part III

Survey of Recent Literature

273

Part I

Stephen M. Passamaneck, The Rabbinic Law on Entry and Seizure

3

G.J Blidstein, Mine and Thine: the Problem of Priority in Civil Law ("Hashavat Avedah")

37

Yair Zakovitch, Ancient Variants and Interpretations of Some Laws of the Book of the Covenant as Reflected in Early Prophets' Narratives 

57

Hillel Gamoran, Credit Transactions in Geonic Times in the Light of the Law Against Usury

63

Arthur Gross Shaefer, Contractual Intent: Is the Reasonable Person Standard Sufficient?

85

Mordechai Biser, Can an Observant Jew Practice Law? A Look at Some Halakhic Problems

101

Bernard S. Jackson, On the Nature of Analogical Argument in Early Jewish Law

137

Part II – Chronicle

Moshe Ish-Horowicz, The Case of Mrs. Paula Cohen and her Children

171

Debra Morris, The Jewish Will in English Law

195

Martin Edelman, Grumet v. Board of Education of Kiryas Joel: Towards a Lemon-aid Theory of the First Amendment's Religious Clauses

207

Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in the State of Israel

Appointment of Women to Religious Councils

221

Compromise Agreements

226

Judicial Bias

230

Pre-Trial Custody

232

Protection of Privacy

233

Consent to Medical Procedures

237

Prisoner's Right to Marital Relations

241

Part III

Book Review

251

Survey of Recent Literature

269

Part I – Medico-Legal Issues

David Shatz, Concepts of Autonomy in Jewish Medical Ethics

3

Elimelech Westreich, Medicine and Jewish Law in the Rabbinical Courts of Israel: Matters of Infertility

45

Elliot N. Dorff, Jewish Law and Lore: The Case of Organ Transplantation

65

Fred Rosner and Jacob Widroff, Physicians' Fees in Jewish Law

115

Pinhas Shifman, New Reproductive Technologies and Jewish Law

127

Avraham Steinberg, Informed Consent: Ethical and Halakhic Considerations

137

Yehoshua Ben Meir, Legal Parenthood and Genetic Parenthood in Jewish Law

153

Joop Al, Comparative Observations on Some Current Medico-Legal Issues in Dutch Law

167

Danuta Mendelson, The Concept of Medical Confidentiality in Australian and Jewish Law

217

Part II – Chronicle

Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in the State of Israel 

253

Martin Edelman, Answering to a higher Authority: Kashrut and American Constitutional Law

267

Part III

Survey of Recent Literature

285

 Part I

Hanina Ben-Menahem, Maimonides' Fourteen Roots: Logical Structure and Conceptual Analysis

3

Michael J. Broyde and Michael Hecht, The Gentile and Returning Lost Property According to Jewish Law: A Theory of Reciprocity 

31

Joseph Fleishman, Does the Law of Exodus 21:7-11 Permit a Father to Sell His Daughter to Be a Slave?

47

David Golinkin, A Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Boaz Cohen

65

Irwin H. Haut, Kad and Havit 

87

Maidi S. Katz, z"l, The Married Woman and her Expense Account: A Study of the Marries Woman's Ownership and Use of Marital Property in Jewish Law 

101

Berachyahu Lifshitz, Kad and Havit – More on the Role of the Stam

143

Avi Sagi, Natural Law and Halakha – A Critical Analysis

149

Dov Schwartz, Rabbi David Cohen, the Nazir, on Halakhic Exegesis 

197

Ronnie Warburg, A Comparative Analysis of a Wife's Capacity to Pledge Her Husband's Credit for Domestic Necessities in Anglo-American Law and Jewish Law 

213

Part II – Chronicle

Martin Edelman and Christopher McMahon, Lemon Peels: The Unraveling of a Constitutional Law Doctrine

241

Part III

Survey of Recent Literature

285

Style Sheet

287

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

389

Style Sheet

403

Part I

Jonathan Blass, Halakhic Altruism: A Critique of H. Dagan's "The Law of Unjust Enrichment: Between Judaism and Liberalism"

3

Shimon Ettinger, Can a Witness Serve as Judge?

13

Irwin H. Haut, z"l, Unjust Enrichment Revisited

41

Yehiel S. Kaplan, Enforcement of Divorce Judgments by Imprisonment: Principles of Jewish Law

57

Steven H. Resnicoff, Ends and Means in Jewish Law: Lying to Achieve Financial Justice 

147

Yosef Tobi, Caro's Shulhan Arukh versus Maimonides' Mishne Torah in Yemen

189

Part II – Chronicle

Martin Edelman, The Eruv Wars

219

Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in the State of Israel

229

Treatment of the Terminally Ill

Jewish Heritage as a Source of Natural Law in Israeli Jurisprudence

Part III

Survey of recent Literature

245

Style Sheet

273

Part I

Judah Galinsky, Ashkenazim in Sefard: The Rosh and the Tur on the Codification of Jewish Law

3

Ron S. Kleinman, Early Interpretations of the Bible and Talmud as a Reflection of Medieval Legal Realia

25

Yechezkel Lichtenshtein, Suicide as an Act of Atonement in Jewish Law

51

David Malkiel, The Burden of the Past in the Eighteenth Century: Authority, custom and Innovation in the Pahad Yitzhak 

93

Part II – Conference Papers

Hanina Ben-Menahem, Some Introductory Remarks on Genesis Rabbah and the Law

135

Charles Donahue, Jr., Genesis in Western Canon Law

155

Timothy D. Lytton, Due Process and Legal Authority in the Garden of Eden: Jurisprudence in Aggadic Midrash

185

Part III – Chronicle

Martin Edelman, A Tale of Two Cultures: Conspicuous Religious Symbols in the Public Schools of France and the United States

205

Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in the State of Israel

221

A Rabbinical Court Decision Regarding a Dispute Over the Fate of Pre-Embryos

Kofin al Midat Sdom: Abuse of rights in Jewish Law

A Definite Rabbinical Court Decision on the Status of Civil Marriage 

Part IV

Survey of Recent Literature

245

Style Sheet

253

Part I

Neria Guttel, It is Indeed in Heaven: The Uniqueness of the Laws of the Temple in the Halakhic Doctrine of Rabbi A.I Kook

3

David Henshke, The Number of Judges in Ancient Israel

27

Leib Moscovitz, "The Actions of a Minor are a Nullity"? Some Observations on the Legal Capacity of Minors in Rabbinic Law

63

Avinoam Rosenak, Prophecy and Halakha: Dialectic in the Meta-Halakhic Thought of Rabbi A.I Kook

121

Haim Shapira, The Schools of Hillel and Shamai

159

Yuval Sinai, Judicial Authority in Fraudulent-Claim Cases

209

Ronnie Warburg, Breach of a Promise to Marry

267

Part II

Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in the State of Israel

285

The Constutional Validity of the Sabath Observance Law

285

Terminally Ill Patient Law, 5766-2005

292

Part III

Book Reviews of Aviad Hacohen, The Tears of the Oppressed, An Examination of the Agunah Problem: Background and Halakhic Sources

303

Bernard S. Jackson

303

Avishalom Westreich

306

Style Sheet

317

Part I

Shimon Ettinger, The Prohibition Against Consulting Two Authorities and the Nature of Halakhic Truth

3

Yehiel Kaplan, The Changing Profile of the Parent-Child Relationship in Jewish Law

21

Amihai Radzyner, Jewish Law in London: Between Two Societies

81

Benjamin Shmueli, Corporal Punishment of Children in Jewish Law

137

Ronal Warburg, Recovery for Infliction of Emotional Distress: Toward Relief for the Agunah

213

Michael Wygoda, The Agent who Breaches his Principal's Trust

265

Style Sheet

319