The Jewish Law Annual Volume 18 [Paperback]

1. The Prohibition against Consulting Two Authorities and the Nature of Halakhic Truth, Shimshon Ettinger  2. The Changing Profile of the Parent-Child Relationship in Jewish law, Yehiel Kaplan  3. Jewish Law in London: between Two Societies, Amihai Radzyner  4. Corporal Punishment of Children in Jewish Law: a Comparative Study, Benjamin Shmueli  5. Recovery for Infliction of Emotional Distress: toward Relief for the Agunah, Ronnie Warburg  6. The Agent who Breaches his Principals Trust, Michael Wygoda

Volume Eighteen of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes one to seventeen of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential, historical, textual and comparative analysis of issues in Jewish law.

Topics covered include: spousal withholding of conjugal relations; halakhic understandings of the parentchild relationship; corporal punishment of children; the prohibition against seeking a second ruling after something has been declared forbidden; the agent who carries out his mandate for his own benefit, not the principals; mid-twentieth century London organizations for the advancement of Jewish law.US? 2010 Trustees of Boston University