Week 4: The Relationship between Jewish Law and other Legal Systems
Required Reading (BA and MA):
Elon, M., "The Relationship between Jewish Law and Foreign Law", Encyclopedia Judaica vol. XII:137-139 (Folio Theol.Ref. 296/E27)
Required Reading (MA)
Jackson, B.S., "On the Problem of Roman Influence on the Halakhah and Normative Self-Definition in Judaism", in Jewish and Christian Self-Definition, ed. E.P. Sanders, London: SCM Press, 1981, vol.II, 157-203 (text), 352-379 (notes), Blue 4, 270/S61
Further Reading:
(Author Unnamed), "Enforceability of Religious Laws in Secular Courts-It's Kosher, But Is It Constitutional?", Michigan Law Review 71 (1973), 1641-53. Per.Law: Red 3 MICHIGAN
Atlas, S., "Dina d'Malchuta Delimited", Hebrew Union College Annual 46 (1975), 269-288. Per.Religion: Blue 4, HEBREW
Cohn, Haim Hermann, Human Rights in Jewish Law, 1984, Pt. II, Blue 4, 349.33/C2
Daube, D., "Jewish Law in the Hellenistic World", in Jackson, B.S., ed., Jewish Law in Legal History and the Modern World. Leiden: E.J. Brill (The Jewish Law Annual, Supplement 2) (Blue 4: 349.33/J3)
Elon, M., "Conflict of Laws", in Encyclopedia Judaica vol. V:882-890 (Folio Theol.Ref. 296/E27)
Elon, M., Jewish Law, History, Sources, Principles (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1994), vol 1, pp. 13-18, 62-74 (Blue 4, 349.33/E1)
Elon, M., in Vilozni v. Supreme Rabbinical Court (1981), translated in N. Rakover, Modern Applications of Jewish Law (Jerusalem: Library of Jewish Law, 1992, 2 vols.), Short Loan 349.33/R3103-107
Falk, Z.W., "Jewish Law and Medieval Canon Laws", in Jackson, B.S., ed., Jewish Law in Legal History and the Modern World. Leiden: E.J. Brill (The Jewish Law Annual, Supplement 2) (Blue 4: 349.33/J3)
Falk, Z.W., Jewish Matrimonial Law in the Middle Ages, London: Oxford U.P, 1966, Blue 4, 349.33/F2
Frimer, D.I, "Israel, the Noahide Laws and Maimonides: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Maimonidean Thought", in B.S. Jackson, ed., The Jerusalem Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986: Jewish Law Association Studies, II), 89-102 (Blue 4, 349.33/J5)
Goitein, S.D., "The Interplay of Jewish and Islamic Laws", in Jackson, B.S., ed., Jewish Law in Legal History and the Modern World. Leiden: E.J. Brill (The Jewish Law Annual, Supplement 2) (Blue 4: 349.33/J3)
Gordon, G.H., "Blasphemy in English Criminal Law", Jewish Law Annual Vol. 5 (1985), 92-99 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Isaacs, N., "The Influence of Judaism on Western Law", in The Legacy of Israel, ed. E.R. Bevan and C. Singer (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927), 378-406: Blue 4 296/B60
Jackson, B.S., "Evolution and Foreign Influence in Ancient Law", American Journal of Comparative Law l6 (1968), 372-390.
Jackson, B.S., "On the Origins of Scienter", The Law Quarterly Review 94 (l978), 85-102, xvi.
Jackson, B.S., "Susanna and the Singular History of Singular Witnesses", Acta Juridica (l977), 37-54 (Essays in Honour of Ben Beinart), Per.Law: Red 3 ACTA
Jackson, B.S., "Travels and Travails of the Goring Ox: The Biblical Text in British Sources", Studies in Bible and the Ancient Near East Presented to S.E. Loewenstamm, ed. Y. Avishur & J. Blau, Jerusalem: Rubinstein, l978, 41-56. Blue 4, 221.6/L46
Jacobs, L., A Tree of Life: Diversity, Flexibility and Creativity in Jewish Law. NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1984, ch.7, Blue 4, 296/J6
Klingenberg, E., "The Roman Imperial Legislation Prohibiting Jews from Owning Gentile Slaves", in B.S. Jackson, ed., The Boston Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990: Jewish Law Association Studies, IV), 89-98 (Blue 4, 349.33/J6)
Klingenberg, E., "Justinian's Novellae Concerning the Jews", in E.A. Goldman, ed., The Jerusalem 1994 Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996: Jewish Law Association Studies, VIII), pp.79-100 (on order)
Konvitz, Milton R., "The Confluence of Torah and Constitution", Pamphlet Series of American Jewish Archives, 1982 (ask BSJ)
Konvitz, Milton R., Judaism and the American idea, Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 1978, Blue 3 901.73/K50
Konvitz, Milton R., Torah and Constitution: essays in American Jewish thought, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1998, on order
Landman, Leo, Jewish Law in the Diaspora: Confrontation and Accommodation (Philadelphia: Dropsie College, 1968), not in JRULM
Lew, J.D.M.. "Jewish Law - Its Development and its Co-Existence in the Non-Jewish World", Rabels Zeitschrift fur auslandisches und internationales Privatrecht 40 (1976), 101-122. Per.Int.Law: Red 3 RABELS
Lichtenstein, A., "Who cares about the Seven Laws of Noah?: A Status Report", in B.S. Jackson, ed., The Boston Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990: Jewish Law Association Studies, IV), 181-190 (Blue 4, 349.33/J6)
Lifshitz, B., "The Rules Governing Conflict of Laws between a Jew and a Gentile according to Maimonides", in M. Humbert, ed., Mélanges à la mémoire de Marcel-Henri Prévost, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1982, 179189 (not in library: ask BSJ)
Linder, A., The Jews in Roman Imperial Legislation, Wayne State University Press, 1987, Blue 4, 349.377/L1
Linder, A., The Jews in the legal sources of the early Middle Ages, Detroit: Wayne State University Press; Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences, 1997, Blue 4, 933.4/L21
Meislin, B.J., Jewish Law in American Tribunals (New York, Ktav, 1976) on order
Meislin, B.J.., "The Role of the Ten Commandments in American Judicial decisions", in B.S. Jackson, ed., The Oxford Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990: Jewish Law Association Studies, III), 187-209 (in process)
Merkin, R., "The Race Relations Act 1976", The Jewish Law Annual 1 (1978), 213-219 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Novak, D., The Image of the Non-Jew in Judaism. An Historical and Constructive Study of the Noahide Laws, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1983 (not in library: ask BSJ)
Rabello, A.M., "A Tribute to Jean Juster", "The Legal Condition of the Jews under the Visigothic Kings", Parts I, 1I, and III, Israel Law Review 11 (1976), 216-58, 259-87, 391-414, 563-560 Per.Law: Red 3 ISRAEL
Rabello, A.M., "Jewish and Roman Jurisdiction", in N.S. Hecht, B.S. Jackson et al., An Introduction to the History and Sources of Jewish Law, Oxford University Press, 1996, ch.6 (Green 3, 349.33/H16; Short loan)
Rabello, A.M., "The Legal Condition of the Jews in the Roman Empire", in Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt, ed. H. Temporini and W. Haase (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1980), Bd. II. 13, pp. 662-762. Classics Ref: Blue 4, 937/A35
Rakover, N., "The "Law" and the Noahides", in B.S. Jackson, ed., The Boston Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990: Jewish Law Association Studies, IV), 169-180 (Blue 4, 349.33/J6)
Reicher, H., "The Interface of Halakha and the Secular Legal System: The Australian Experience", in S.M. Passamaneck and M. Finley, eds., The Paris Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994: Jewish Law Association Studies, VII), pp.195-210 (Blue 4, 349.33/J1)
Schacter, J.J., "Dina De-Malkhuta Dina - A Review", Dine Israel 8 (1977), 77-96 (BSJ)
Schaffer, S.J., "Dina Demalkhuta Dina", in B.S. Jackson, ed., The Touro Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1985: Jewish Law Association Studies, I), 121-124 (on order)
Shilo, S., "Dina de-malkhuta dina", in Encyclopedia Judaica VI:51-55 (Folio Theol.Ref. 296/E27)
Shilo, S., "Maimonides on Dina de-malkhuta Dina ("The Law of the State is Law")", The Jewish Law Annual 1 (1978), 146-167 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Shohet, D M., The Jewish Court in the Middle Ages,
1931: Blue 4 296/S72
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