Who Decides Who Decides? A Discussion on Halakhah, Authority, and the Shaping of Communal Norms
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Professor Chaim Saiman
Chaim Saiman is a scholar of Jewish law, insurance law and private law at Villanova University, and he has just published Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law with Princeton University Press. Professor Saiman has been the Gruss Visiting Professor of Talmudic Law at both Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a visiting fellow at Princeton University and a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, Bar-Ilan, Hebrew University and IDC faculties of law. Chaim also serves as dayyan on the…
Justice Sharon Shore
Sharon Shore is a partner at Epstein Cole with a focus on family law. She has worked on cases at all levels of court in Ontario, including the Court of Appeal. Sharon has authored and co-authored several articles on family law issues and has given lectures on a variety of family law related topics. She was an instructor for the Family Law Section of the Bar Admission Course for the Law Society of Upper Canada. Sharon also sat on the Advisory…
Rabbi Elli Fischer
Elli Fischer is an independent writer, translator, and rabbi. Previously, he was the JLIC rabbi and campus educator at the University of Maryland. He holds BA and MS degrees from Yeshiva University, rabbinical ordination from Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, and is working toward a doctorate in Jewish History at Tel Aviv University. He served as the editor of Rabbi Eliezer Melamed’s Peninei Halakha series in English and cofounder of HaMapah, a project that applies quantitative analysis to rabbinic literature. He is a…