Sessions Information

  • January 7, 2016
    1:30 pm - 3:15 pm
    Session Type: Section Programs
    Session Capacity: 70
    Hotel: New York Hilton Midtown
    Room: Lincoln Suite
    Floor: Fourth Floor
    Is Jewish law explicitly, or implicitly, premised on some foundational understandings of the nature of what law is? Are there multiple such conceptions in early rabbinic materials? Have multiple understandings emerged over time and across space, perhaps influenced by non-Jewish jurisprudence? Do competing jurisprudential understandings have divergent implications for legal reasoning and other methods (such as looking to custom) in determining the law’s content? Is there a connection between Jewish analytical jurisprudence (if there is such a thing) and formalism? Is self-conscious consideration of analytical jurisprudence’s application to Jewish law useful, merely academic, potentially pernicious? Why?
     
    Business meeting at program conclusion.  
Session Speakers
Emory University School of Law
Speaker

Rutgers Law School
Speaker

Shalem College
Speaker

Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Moderator

Session Fees
  • 4260 Jewish Law: $0.00