Volume VI

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