J. David Bleich is a Professor of Talmud (Rosh Yeshiva) at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, as well as the Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. A prolific writer and an authority on Jewish law and ethics, he is widely known as author of the six-volume Contemporary Halakhic Problems. Arthur J. Jacobson is Max Freund Professor of Litigation and Advocacy at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. He is the author of numerous articles and books on legal theory and contracts law, including Weimar: A Jurisprudence of Crisis (with Bernhard Schlink, 2002). Professor Jacobson received his JD from Harvard Law School.

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• 1. The nature and structure of Jewish law; 2. Divorce; 3. Jewish law and the state's authority to punish crime; 4. The Sotheby sale; 5. Torture and the ticking bomb; 6. War; 7. Dead or alive?; 8. Rabbinic confidentiality; 9. Cloning: homologous reproduction and Jewish law.

J. David Bleich is a Professor of Talmud (Rosh Yeshiva) at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, as well as the Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. A prolific writer and an authority on Jewish law and ethics, he is widely known as author of the six-volume Contemporary Halakhic Problems. Arthur J. Jacobson is Max Freund Professor of Litigation and Advocacy at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. He is the author of numerous articles and books on legal theory and contracts law, including Weimar: A Jurisprudence of Crisis (with Bernhard Schlink, 2002). Professor Jacobson received his JD from Harvard Law School.

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• 1. The nature and structure of Jewish law; 2. Divorce; 3. Jewish law and the state's authority to punish crime; 4. The Sotheby sale; 5. Torture and the ticking bomb; 6. War; 7. Dead or alive?; 8. Rabbinic confidentiality; 9. Cloning: homologous reproduction and Jewish law.

J. David Bleich is a Professor of Talmud (Rosh Yeshiva) at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, as well as the Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. A prolific writer and an authority on Jewish law and ethics, he is widely known as author of the six-volume Contemporary Halakhic Problems. Arthur J. Jacobson is Max Freund Professor of Litigation and Advocacy at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. He is the author of numerous articles and books on legal theory and contracts law, including Weimar: A Jurisprudence of Crisis (with Bernhard Schlink, 2002). Professor Jacobson received his JD from Harvard Law School.

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• 1. The nature and structure of Jewish law; 2. Divorce; 3. Jewish law and the state's authority to punish crime; 4. The Sotheby sale; 5. Torture and the ticking bomb; 6. War; 7. Dead or alive?; 8. Rabbinic confidentiality; 9. Cloning: homologous reproduction and Jewish law.