Berachyahu Lifshitz is a professor of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Law.

• Part One1. Judah Galinsky , Ashkenazim in Sefarad: The Rosh and the Tur on the Codification of Jewish Law 2. Ron S. Kleinman , Early Interpretations of the Bible and Talmud as a Reflection of Medieval Legal Realia 3. Yechezkel Lichtenshtein , Suicide as an Act of Atonement in Jewish Law 4. David Malkiel , The Burden of the Past in the Eighteenth Century: Authority, Custom and Innovation in the Pahad Yitzhak Part Two CONFERENCE PAPERS 5. Hanina Ben-Menahem , Some Introductory Remarks on Genesis Rabbah and the Law 6. Charles Donahue , Jr., Genesis in Western Canon Law 7. Timothy D. Lytton , Due Process and Legal Authority in the Garden of Eden: Jurisprudence in Aggadic Midras h Part Three8. Martin Edelman , A Tale of Two Cultures: Conspicuous Religious Symbols in the Public Schools of France and the United States 9. Daniel B. Sinclair , Jewish Law in the State of Israel a A rabbinical court decision regarding a dispute over the fate of pre-embryos b Kofin al midat sdom: abuse of rights in Jewish law c A definitive rabbinical court decision on the status of civil marriage Part Four Survey of Recent Literature Style Sheet

Berachyahu Lifshitz is a professor of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Law.

• Part One1. Judah Galinsky , Ashkenazim in Sefarad: The Rosh and the Tur on the Codification of Jewish Law 2. Ron S. Kleinman , Early Interpretations of the Bible and Talmud as a Reflection of Medieval Legal Realia 3. Yechezkel Lichtenshtein , Suicide as an Act of Atonement in Jewish Law 4. David Malkiel , The Burden of the Past in the Eighteenth Century: Authority, Custom and Innovation in the Pahad Yitzhak Part Two CONFERENCE PAPERS 5. Hanina Ben-Menahem , Some Introductory Remarks on Genesis Rabbah and the Law 6. Charles Donahue , Jr., Genesis in Western Canon Law 7. Timothy D. Lytton , Due Process and Legal Authority in the Garden of Eden: Jurisprudence in Aggadic Midras h Part Three8. Martin Edelman , A Tale of Two Cultures: Conspicuous Religious Symbols in the Public Schools of France and the United States 9. Daniel B. Sinclair , Jewish Law in the State of Israel a A rabbinical court decision regarding a dispute over the fate of pre-embryos b Kofin al midat sdom: abuse of rights in Jewish law c A definitive rabbinical court decision on the status of civil marriage Part Four Survey of Recent Literature Style Sheet