"Published and distributed by: Deborah Charles Publications on behalf of The Jewish Law Association"--verso of title page.
Proceedings of the International Congress of the Jewish Law Association, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references.
Hebrew law in the courts of Israel / Tsevi E. Tal -- An unsuccessful attempt to commit a crime / Jacob Bazak -- Blood money and retaliation in criminal law in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as found in Jewish society / Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky -- Justification for war in the ancient Near East and the Bible / David Elgavish -- The husband's sin and punishment of Deutoronomy 22:18-19 in early Jewish law / Joseph Fleishman -- The renewed insights of the UN Convention on children's rights: the renaissance of ancient Jewish law / Israel Zvi Gilat -- The rise and fall of the "war get" suggestion in the early days of the IDF / Aharon Kampinsky -- Jewish penology: unanswered questions / Aaron Kirschenbaum -- "It was not for naught that they called it Hekdesh": divine ownership and the medieval charitable foundation / Madeline Kochen -- Assent to ascent: Halakhic negotiations of exile, marriage, and gender / Gail Labovitz -- On the dispositive foundations of the obligation of spousal conjugal relations in Jewish law / Yehezkel margalit -- May plaintiffs enjoy a double recovery? A comparison of American and Jewish law / Steven H. Resnicoff -- Contracts and legislation in Jewish law: Interrelations / Yosef Rivlin -- Food deceptions and falsification in the ancient food industry and their legal ramifications according to rabbinical literature / Abraham Ofir Shemesh -- Disqualifications of witnesses because of kinship: its evolution and effect on validity of marriages / Yair Shiber -- Arbitration as an ideal judicial procedure / Yuval Sinai -- Floating Charge on an individual's assets / Michael Wygoda