Academic Articles
2024
Learning Law in Elementary and High School: Innovating Civics Education for a More Empowered Citizenry”19 NW. J. L. & SOC. POL’Y. 264 (2024).
April 18, 2024
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2023
Contract Law Should be Faith Neutral: Reverse entanglement would be stranglement for religious arbitration
New York University Annual Survey of American Law 2023 79 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 17-88 (2023)
August 24, 2023
Learning Law Young: Towards a More Robust, Impactful Civics Education Modeled Off of Jewish Law
Journal of Law and Education, 52:1-45 (2023).
January 1, 2023
2022
“Why Are Women Obligated in Some Time-Bound Positive Commandments and Exempt from Others? A New Theory”
The Lehrhaus, August 21, 2022
August 21, 2022
Religious Values of Secular Charted Institutions
Religiously Motived and Religion Based Discrimination: Prohibition, Religulation and Exemption, Conference at Bar Ilan University
January 11, 2022
The Concept of Human Rights in Judaism, in The Concept of Human Rights in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourse, Volume II, edited by Geroges Tamar (2022, De Gruyter) pages 19-70.
January 1, 2022
A Tale of Two Pandemics? How a Law for Torah Reading Became a ‘Dead Letter’ in the Wake of the Black Death—and Was Brought Back to Life by COVID-19. (co-author, Steven Weiner)
Studies in Judaism, Humanities, and the Social Sciences, Annual Review 2021-22, pages 271-293 (2022).
January 1, 2022
Religious Values in Secular Institutions? Yeshiva University and the Future of Religiously Affiliated (but Secularly Chartered)
Higher Education in America, Journal of Law, Religion and State 10 (2022) 53–85.
January 1, 2022
The Rule of the Talmud vs the Rule of Rabbinic Consensus in the Orach Chaim Section of Rabbi Yeheil Mikjel Epstein’s Arukh HaShulhan
Jewish Law Annual, Volume 30, pages 61-81 (2022).
January 1, 2022
2021
Cases Presented in Rabbinical Court
NISHMAT (נשמת) The Jeanie Schottenstein Center For Advanced Torah Study For Women
December 9, 2021
Rabbi Yeheil Michel Epstein and his Arukh Hashulchan
Oxford Bibliographies, September 22, 2021
September 22, 2021
In Contracts We Trust (and No One Can Change Their Mind)! There Should Be No Special Treatment for Religious Arbitration
Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Journal 21:1-41 (2021).
January 1, 2021
Human Rights in Judaism With a Focus on Religious Freedom, Forthcoming in Georges Tamer and Katja Thörner (eds.)
The Concept of Human Rights in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses 2, (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021).
January 1, 2021
2020
The Effectiveness of (Rabbinic) Prenuptial Agreements in Preventing Marital Captivity
International Journal of Constitutional Law (I*CON, NYU Law and Oxford Press) International Journal of Constitutional Law, Volume 18, Issue 3, October 2020, Pages 944–964. published 02 January 2021
January 1, 2020
An Analysis of Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch’s Responsa (Teshuvah) on the Beth Din of America’s Prenuptial Agreement
Jewish Law Association Studies XXVIII (2020) 41-56
January 1, 2020
Rethinking Religious Marriages When Done Without Any Civil Marriage: Non-Marriage, Neo-Marriage, Marriage or Something Else?
Family Court Review Volume 59, Issue 4 (2020) pages 1-30
January 1, 2020
2019
Faith-Based Arbitration Evaluated: The Policy Arguments For and Against Religious Arbitration in America
published in: The Journal of Law and Religion (2019) (340-389)
January 31, 2019
Building the Set Table: An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Rabbi Yehiel Mikhel Epstein’s Arukh ha-Shulhan in Contrast to the Mishnah Berurah
Dine Israel (2019) 1-70 (co-author, Shlomo Pill).
January 1, 2019
The Rise of Religious Arbitration in America: American Arbitration Law, Jewish Batai Din, Protestant Peacemaker Panels, and Islamic Sharia Court Reviewed
Published in: Studies in Judaism, Humanities, and the Social Sciences (2019).
January 1, 2019
2018
The Behavior of Jewish Judges: A Theoretical Study of Religious Decision-making
Published in: Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu: Journal of Torah and Scholarship 33 (2018), 63–81.
January 1, 2018
Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels: Religious Arbitration in America and the West – Chapter 1: The Rise of Religious Arbitration
Published in: Transnational Dispute Management 15:1 (2018).
January 1, 2018
2017
Playground Resurfacing and Religious Arbitration are Very Similar Activities: Trinity Lutheran Church as Applied to Religious Arbitration
Published in: Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion 18 (2017), 298–330.
January 1, 2017
Jewish Ethics in Torah Reading: Balancing Hatred, Ways of Peace, Holiness, Communal Dignity, and the Obligation to Read Torah on Shabbat when Five Israelite Men are not Present
Published in: Hakira: Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought 23 (2017), 181–96. (co-author: Akiva R. Berger).
January 1, 2017
2016
Multicultural ADR and Family Law: A Brief Introduction to the Complexities of Religious Arbitration
Published in: Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 17 (2016), 793–823.
August 24, 2016
2015
Freedom of Disassociation and Religious Communities: A Jewish Model for Associational Rights
Published in: Journal of Human Rights 10:2 (Fall 2015 – Winter 2016), 67–104.
December 1, 2015
Faith-Based Private Arbitration as a Model for Preserving Rights and Values in a Pluralistic Society
Published in: Chicago-Kent Law Review 90 (2015), 111–40.
August 24, 2015
2014
Plonit v. Ploni: The Get from the Man in a Permanent Vegetative State
Published in: Hakirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought 18 (2014), 59–90.
August 24, 2014
The Pillars of Successful Religious Arbitration: Models for American Islamic Arbitration based on the Beth Din of America and Muslim Arbitration Tribunal Experience
Published in: Harvard Journal of Racial and Ethnic Justice 30 (2014), 33–76. (co-authors Ira Bedzow & Shlomo Pill).
August 24, 2014
Happiness—and Unhappiness—as Legally Significant Categories in Jewish Law
Published in: Journal of Law and Religion 29:1 (2014), 48–56.
August 24, 2014
2013
Understanding Rights in Context: Freedom of Contract or Freedom from Contract?
Published in: Journal of the Beth Din of America 1 (Spring 2012), 48–65. (co-author: Steven S. Weiner) [Another version of this article has also been accepted for publication in Jewish Law Association Studies XXV – the Netanya Conference Volume, Yuval Sinai ed. (2013), 11–27].
August 24, 2013
2012
Does Maimonides Require Acceptance of Commandments for Conversion?
Published in: Meorot: A Forum of Modern Orthodox Discovery 9 (Tishrei 5772 (September 2011)), 1–18. (co-author: Joshua E. Broyde).
September 24, 2012
Jewish Law Courts in America: Lessons Offered to Sharia Courts by the Beth Din of America
Published in: New York Law School Law Review 57 (2012–2013), 287–312.
August 24, 2012
Custom as a Source of Jewish Law
Published in: Emory Law Journal 61 (spec. ed., 2012), 1037–46.
August 24, 2012
Some Thoughts on New York State Regulation of Jewish Marriage: Covenant, Contract or Statute?
Published in: Family in Law Review 5 (2012), 55–86.
August 24, 2012
The Codification of Jewish Law and an Introduction to the Jurisprudence of the Mishna Berura
Published in: Hamline Law Review 35 (2012) 623–54. (co-author: Ira Bedzow).
August 24, 2012
2011
Orthodox Women Rabbis? Tentative Thoughts that Distinguish Between the Timely and the Timeless
Published in: Hakirah, the Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought 11 (2011), 25–58. (co-author: Shlomo M. Brody).
August 24, 2011
2010
A Mathematical Analysis of the Structure of the Jewish Calendar: Perfection as the Enemy of the Very Good
Published in: The Commemorative Journal in Honor of the Hirhurim Musings Blog, New York (2010).
August 24, 2010
May a Convert be a Member of a Rabbinical Court for Conversion?
Published in: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 59 (2010), 61–78.
August 24, 2010
The Giving of Charity in Jewish Law: For What Purpose and Toward What Goal?
Published in: Towards a Renewed Ethic of Jewish Philanthropy, Yossi Prager, ed., from the 20th annual (2008) Orthodox Forum of Yeshiva University, Ktav (2010).
August 24, 2010
A Proposed Tripartite Agreement to Solve Some of the Agunah Problems: A Solution Without Any Motivation
Published in: Jewish Law Association Studies XX: The Manchester Conference Volume, Leib Moscovitz, ed. (2010).
August 24, 2010
Hair Covering and Jewish Law: A Response
Published in: Tradition: A Journal of Jewish Thought 43:2 (Winter 2010), 89–108.
February 24, 2010
2009
May the Jewish Daughter of a Gentile Man Marry a Kohen?
Published in: The Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 52 (2009), 97–126.
August 24, 2009
Entering a Sanctuary for Hatzalat Yisrael: An Exchange
Published in: Hakirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought 8 (Summer 2009).
August 24, 2009
Review Essay: Transforming Identity: The Ritual Transition from Gentile to Jew
Published in: Tradition: A Journal of Jewish Thought 42:1 (Spring 2009), 84–103. (co-author: Shmuel Kadosh).
January 24, 2009
Hair Covering and Jewish Law: Biblical and Objective (Dat Moshe) or Rabbinic and Subjective (Dat Yehudit)?
Published in: Tradition: A Journal of Jewish Thought 42:3 (Fall 2009), 95–179.
January 24, 2009
2008
Prisoner Exchanges, Redeeming Captives and Jewish Law
Published in: Chavrusa, Elul 5768 (September 2008).
September 24, 2008
The Hidden Influence of Jewish Law on the Common Law: One Lost Example
Published in: Emory Law Journal 57 (2008), 1403–8.
August 24, 2008
The Halacha of In-LawsChapter 24 in Wither Thou Goest; The Jewish In-Law’s Survival Guide, S. Shapiro, ed.,
Devora Publishing Company (2008), 203–6.
August 24, 2008
2007
Ethics and Warfare Revisited: The Role of Secular Law in Halakhah-A Brief Response to Gerald Blidstein and a Note of Jewish Legal Theory
Published in: Meorot: A Forum of Modern Orthodox Discovery (formerly the Edah Journal), 6:2 (Marcheshvan 5768 [November 2007]), 6–11.
November 24, 2007
Military Ethics in Jewish Law
Published in: Jewish Law Association Studies XVI: The Boston 2004 Conference Volume (2007), 1–36.
August 24, 2007
גילוי שערה של אשה נשואה (Standards of Modesty in Family Law)
Published in: Tehumin 27 (2007), 248–65.
August 24, 2007
Only the Good Die Young?
Published in: Meorot: A Forum of Modern Orthodox Discovery (formerly the Edah Journal) 6:1 (Shevat 5767 [Jan. 2007], 1–6.
January 24, 2007
2006
Is the Epitaph Acronym ע״ה an Abbreviation of עבד השם or עליו השלום? Acronyms and Their Expansion in Jewish Law Texts
Published in: Hakirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought 3 (Summer 2006), 117–32.
August 24, 2006
May an Orthodox Yeshivah Day School or High School Provide Parsonage to Women Teaching Judaic Studies?
Published in: Ten Da'at: A Journal of Jewish Education 18 (2006), 7–16.
August 24, 2006
The Bounds of Wartime Military Conduct in Jewish Law: An Expansive Conception
Herbert Berman Memorial Lecture 2004, Monograph, Flushing, New York: Center for Jewish Studies, Queens College, City University of New York (2006).
August 24, 2006
Orthodox Yeshivas, Female Instructors, and the Parsonage Allowance
Published in: Taxation of Exempts 18:1 (July/August 2006), 44–8.
July 24, 2006
2005
A Jewish Law View of World Law
Published in: Emory Law Journal 54 (spec. ed., 2005), 79–93.
August 24, 2005
Honesty and Analysis: A Reasoned Response to Passionate Critics
Published in: Edah Journal 5:1 (Summer 2005), 1–42.
August 24, 2005
Jewish Law and the Abandonment of Marriage: Diverse Models of Sexuality and Reproduction in the Jewish View, and the Return to Monogamy in the Modern Era
Published in: Marriage Sex, and Family in Judaism, Michael J. Broyde, ed., Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield (2005).
August 24, 2005
Why Educate: A Jewish Law Perspective
Published in: Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 44 (2005), 179–94.
August 24, 2005
ערכה של הכתובה (The Value of the Ketubah in America)
Published in: Tehumin 25 (2005), 180–94. (co-author: Jonathan Reiss).
August 24, 2005
Review Essay: An Unsuccessful Defense of the Bet Din of Rabbi Emanuel Rackman: The Tears of the Oppressed
Published in: Edah Journal 4:2 (Winter 2005), 1–28.
February 24, 2005
2004
Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis, Stem Cells and Jewish Law
Published in: Tradition: A Journal of Jewish Thought 38:1 (Spring 2004), 54–75.
August 24, 2004
Severance Pay and Jewish Law
Published in: Ten Da'at: A Journal of Jewish Education 16 (2004), 23–32.
August 24, 2004
2003
Error in the Creation of Marriages in Modern Times under Jewish Law
Published in: Dinei Israel, Tel Aviv University Law School 22 (2003), 39–65.
August 24, 2003
Severance Pay and Jewish Law: An Opinion of the Beth Din of America
Published in: Tradition: A Journal of Jewish Thought 37:4 (Winter 2003), 89–100.
August 24, 2003
קידושי טעות בזמננו (Error in the Creation of Marriage)
Published in: Tehumin 22 (2003), 231–42.
August 24, 2003
2002
Battlefield Ethics in the Jewish Tradition
Published in: 95th Annual Proceedings of the American Society for International Law (2002), 92–8.
August 24, 2002
Genetically Engineering People: A Jewish Analysis of Personhood
Published in: St. Thomas Law Review 13 (2002), 877–99.
August 24, 2002
Informing on Others to a Just Government: A Jewish Law View
Published in: The Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 41 (2002), 5–49.
August 24, 2002
The Procedures of Jewish Law as the Path to Good-ness and God-ness: Halakhah in the Jewish Tradition
Published in: The Jurist 60 (2002), 25–46.
August 24, 2002
דם ביצים בימינו (Technology and Change in Jewish Law)
Published in: Tehumin 21 (2002), 516-22.
August 24, 2002
2001
רחיצה ביום טוב (Festival Law and Change in Jewish Law)
Published in: HaDarom 70 (2001), 12–28.
August 24, 2001
Religious and Social Ethical Perspective on International Law: the Middle East Peace Process
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting – American Society of International Law 95 (2001), 87–98. (co-authors: Drew Christiansen & Geoffrey R. Watson).
August 24, 2001
Cloning and the Noahide Legal Code
Published in: The Torah u-Madda Journal of Yeshiva University 9 (2001), 207-11.
August 24, 2001
2000
Blood Spots in Eggs
Published in: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 40 (2000), 47–66.
August 24, 2000
Halachic [Jewish Law] Responses to Sociological and Technological Change
Published in: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 39 (2000), 95–125.
August 24, 2000
The Gentile and Returning Lost Property According to Jewish Law: A Theory of Reciprocity
Published in: Jewish Law Annual XIII (2000), 31–45. (co-author: Michael Hecht).
August 24, 2000
The Power and Purpose of Jewish Law
Published in: The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities 10(2): 45–50 (Spring 2000).
May 24, 2000
1999
Assisted Reproduction and Jewish Law
Monograph, Department of Judaic Studies, University of Cincinnati, (1999).
August 24, 1999
Child Custody in Jewish Law: A Conceptual Analysis
Published in: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 36 (1999), 21–45.
August 24, 1999
The Division of the Tribes on Gerizim and Eval: A Mathematical Solution on Terra Firma and a Geographical Explanation on Weak Ground
Published in: Tradition: A Journal of Jewish Thought 33:3 (Spring 1999), 46–53. (co-author: Steven Weiner).
May 24, 1999
1998
Cloning People: A Jewish Law Analysis of the Issues
Published in: Connecticut Law Review 30:2 (1998), 503–35.
August 24, 1998
Impeachment and Accountability: The Case of the First Lady
Published in: Constitutional Commentary 15 (1998), 479–510. (co-author: Robert Schapiro).
August 24, 1998
Practicing Criminal Law: A Jewish Law Analysis of Being a Prosecutor or Defense Attorney
Published in: Fordham Law Review 66 (1998), 1141–59.
August 24, 1998
The Establishment of Maternity and Paternity in Jewish and American Law
Published in: National Jewish Law Review III (1998), 117–52.
August 24, 1998
חובתם של יהודים לעודד שבע מצוות בני נח (Jewish Law Obligation to Enforce Natural Law)
Published in: Dinei Israel, Tel Aviv University Law Review 19 (1998), 87–111.
August 24, 1998
1997
Jewish Law and Modern Business Structures: The Corporate Paradigm
Published in: Wayne Law Review 43 (1997), 1685–818. (co-author: Steven H. Resnicoff).
August 24, 1997
The Obligation to Seek Observance of Noahide’s Laws by Gentiles: A Theoretical Review
Published in: Jewish Law Articles (1997).
August 24, 1997
The 1992 New York Get Law: An Exchange
Published in: Tradition: A Journal of Jewish Thought 31:3 (Spring 1997), 23–41.
May 24, 1997
1996
Cloning People in Jewish Law: A Preliminary Analysis
Published in: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 34 (1997), 27–65.
August 24, 1996
Assisting in a Violation of Noachide Law
Published in: Jewish Law Association Studies VIII: The Jerusalem 1994 Conference Volume (1996), 11–20.
August 24, 1996
Shaving on the Intermediate Days of the Festivals
Published in: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 33 (1996), 71–94.
August 24, 1996
1995
The Celebrating of Thanksgiving at the End of November: Secular or Religious Holiday?
Published in: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 30 (1995), 42–66.
August 24, 1995
The Lawyer as Advice Giver in Jewish Law: An Explication of Ethics of the Sages 1:8
Published in: The Jewish Lawyer 10 (1995), 29–40.
August 24, 1995
The Return of Lost Property According to Jewish and Common Law: A Comparison
Published in: Journal of Law and Religion 12 (1995–1996), 225–54. (co-author: Michael Hecht).
August 24, 1995
The Use of Elevators and Escalators on Sabbath and Yom Tov
Published in: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 29 (1995), 60–89. (co-author Howard Jachter).
August 24, 1995
The 1992 New York Get [Jewish Divorce] Law
Published in: Tradition: A Journal of Jewish Thought 29:4 (Summer 1995), 5–13.
August 24, 1995
הפרשת תרו”מ בפירות א”י בחוץ לארץ (Tithes on Products of Israel in the Diaspora)
Published in: Tehumin 15 (1995), 41–7.
August 24, 1995
Defilement of the Hands, Canonization of the Bible, and the Special Status of Esther, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs
Published in: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought 44:1 (January 1995), 64–79.
January 24, 1995
1994
פירות ארץ ישראל בחוץ לארץ: האם יש חובה להפריש תרומות ומעשרות (Tithing Fruit Exported from Israel)
Published in: Ohr Hamizrach 43:1–2 (Tishrei–Tevet 5755 [Fall 1994]), 21–35.
October 1, 1994
Child Custody in Jewish Law: A Pure Law Analysis
Published in: Jewish Law Association Studies VII: The Paris Conference (1994), 1–20.
August 24, 1994
Expediting Impeachment: Removing Article III Federal Judges After Criminal Conviction
Published in: Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 17 (1994), 157–222.
August 24, 1994
Fruits from the Holy Land in America: Is there an Obligation to Separate Teruma and Ma’aser?
August 24, 1994
1993
Electrically Produced Fire or Light in Positive Commandments
Published in: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 25 (1993), 89–127. (co-author: Howard Jachter).
October 1, 1993
Three Jewish Responses in “Symposium on Religious Law: Roman Catholic, Islamic, and Jewish Treatment of Family Matters, Including Education, Abortion, In Vitro Fertilization, Prenuptial Agreement, Contraception, and Marital Fraud.”
Loyola of Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Journal 16 (1993), pp. 29, 72, 95.
October 1, 1993
משמעות ‘אש’ בהלכה: ‘גחלת של מתכת’ וחוט חשמלי ביום טוב (Incandescent Light as Fire according to Jewish Law)
Ohr Hamizrach 42:1 (Tishrei 5754 [Fall 1993]), 54–63.
October 1, 1993
Bullets that Kill on the Rebound: Discrimination against Homosexuals and Orthodox Public Policy
Published in: Jewish Action 54:1 (Summer 5763 [1993]), 52, 74–8.
August 23, 1993
1992
A Mathematical Analysis of the Role of the Tribes and the Role of the Levites on Grizim and Aval in Deuteronomy 27
Tradition: A Journal of Jewish Thought 27:1 (Fall 1992), 48–57. (co-author: Steven Weiner).
October 1, 1992
Modern Technology and Sabbath Observance: Some Observations
Published in: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 23 (1992), 63–100.
January 1, 1992
1991
היתר מפורש בקרא (Explicitly Permitted in the Bible)
Published in: Beit Yitzchak 23 (1991), 303–8.
June 22, 1991
On the Assessment of Damages in Jewish Tort Law and its Application to Medical Malpractice
Published in: National Jewish Law Review V (1991), 93–114. (co-author: Channah Broyde).
May 22, 1991
The Use of Electricity on Shabbat and Yom Tov
Published in: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 21 (1991), 4–47. (co-author: Howard Jachter).
April 1, 1991
Tradition, Modesty and America: Married Women Covering Their Hair
Published in: Judaism. 40:1 (January 1991), 79–87.
January 1, 1991
1990
Enabling a Jew to Sin: The Parameters
Published in: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 19 (1990) , 5–36. (co-author: David Hertzberg).
January 1, 1990
On the Practice of Law According to Jewish Law
Published in: Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 20 (1990), 5–48.
January 1, 1990
1989
חלוקת השבטים על הר גריזים והר איבל (The Division of the Tribes on Mt. Gerezim and Mt. Eval)
Published in: Rinat Yitzchak 1 (1989), 114–9. (co-author Shlomo Weiner).
August 22, 1989
אכילת בשר אחרי חלב (Eating Meat after Dairy Food)
Published in: Beit Yitzchak 21 (1989), 319–24.
January 1, 1989
1988
הפרשת מעשר לכהן ולא ללוי (Tithing to a Priest, Rather Than to a Levite)
Published in: Beit Yitzchak 20 (1988), 45–50.
January 1, 1988
1987
The Intercircuit Tribunal and Perceived Conflicts: An Analysis of Justice White’s Dissents from Denial of Certiorari in the 1985 Term
Published in: New York University Law Review 62 (1987), 610–52.
June 1, 1987