Abstract In this article I argue that the rabbinic movement reinvented itself during second century by expanding boundaries of Jewish law to include all spheres private law, and thereby claiming juristic expertise in these matters. A variety sources from Second Temple period indicate at stage included primarily ritual laws, while was not considered unique way life treated scholars Torah until C...

Siqt janin (abortion) is defined as the intentional or unintentional action that is performed on a pregnant woman, which compromises the life or the foetal development of an unborn baby, such that it dies or cannot continue living out of the uterus. Due to scientific and technological advancement in medicine, the controversy of therapeutic abortion is very much at the forefront of mode...

Some of the implications for law of recent discoveries in neuroscience are considered in a new program established by the MacArthur Foundation. A group of neuroscientists, lawyers, philosophers, and jurists are examining issues in criminal law and, in particular, problems in responsibility and prediction and problems in legal decision making.

akhbārism is one of the most important shiite jurisprudential schools. it prevailed from the early eleventh century for about two hundred years as the mainstream in some jurisprudence arenas. in a number of jurisprudential books and jurisprudential principles, some jurists have been referred to as being akhbāri. despite the many studies that have been done in the field akhbārism, providing a co...

The Master of Liberal Arts provides the chance to practice the methods of interdisciplinary inquiry that are the hallmark of a rigorous liberal arts education. As a student in the program, one can explore questions of identity through art, literature, and religion; analyze the politics of race in fiction, historical documents, the visual arts, and music; debate ethical choices presented by fict...