From Doctrine to Devotion: The Jewish Comparative Law Project

Abstract

It seems fair to say that Jewish law has “made it” in the American legal academy. While in the 1980s schools were reluctant to run, and scholars were reluctant to teach, Jewish law courses, the 1990s ushered in an era where dozens of law schools incorporated Jewish law courses into their catalogs1—a number that, from a quick perusal of law school course catalogs, appears to be growing with each passing decade. As Jewish law has become an entrenched feature of American law school curricula and scholarship, approaches to teaching2 and writing3 about Jewish law have varied widely—both in terms...