Jewish Law and American Law, Volume 2

Samuel J. Levine is Professor of Law and Director of the Jewish Law Institute at Touro Law Center. He has also served as the Beznos Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University College of Law, and he has taught at the law schools at Bar-Ilan, Fordham, Pepperdine, and St. John’s Universities.

“Levine’srecently published two-volume work, Jewish Law and American Law: AComparative Study, is primarily a collection of his impressive contributionsto the Jewish comparative project over the past three decades. A quick perusalof the two volumes serves as a ready reminder of why Levine has long been oneof the academics central to Jewish law’s rise in the American legal academy. Coveringhis wide range of Jewish law writings, the two volumes traverse significantlegal terrain, focusing on the areas of Levine’s primary scholarly emphasis. … Forthose interested in both Jewish law in particular, and religious law in general,[Jewish Law and American Law] serve[s]as [an] extraordinary exploration within the Jewish comparative law project.” —MichaelA. Helfand, American Journal ofComparative Law, Vol. 67 No. 1

• Section Six. Law and Narrative17. Halacha and Aggada: Translating Robert Cover’s Nomos and Narrative18. Professionalism without Parochialism: Julius Henry Cohen, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, and the Stories of Two SonsSection Seven. Legal History19. Lost in Translation: The Strange Journey of an Anti-Semitic Fabrication, from a Late Nineteenth Century Russian Newspaper to an Irish Legal Journal to a Leading Twentieth Century American Criminal Law Textbook20. Louis Marshall, Julius Henry Cohen, Benjamin Cardozo, and the New York Emergency Rent Laws of 1920: A Case Study in the Role of Jewish Lawyers and Jewish Law in Early Twentieth-Century Public Interest Litigation21. Jewish Law from out of the Depths: Tragic Choices in the Holocaust22. Untold Stories of Goldman v. Weinberger: Religious Freedom Confronts Military Uniformity23. Richard Posner Meets Reb Chaim of Brisk: A Comparative Study in the Founding of Intellectual Legal MovementsSection Eight. Law and Public Policy24. Reflections on Responsibilities in the Public Square through a Perspective of Jewish Tradition: A Brief Biblical Survey 25. Looking beyond the Mercy/Justice Dichotomy: Reflections on the Complementary Roles of Mercy and Justice in Jewish Law and Tradition26. Teshuva: A Look at Repentance, Forgiveness, and Atonement in Jewish Law and Philosophy and American Legal Thought  Index