Kevin Toh (San Francisco State University) has posted  Jurisprudential Theories and First-Order Legal Judgments. Here is the abstract:

The nature of the relation between jurisprudential theories and first-order legal judgments is a strangely uncontroversial matter in contemporary legal philosophy. There is one dominant conception of the relation according to which jurisprudential theories are […]

A new blog, “Pages of Faith,”  that  is devoted to the thought of Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein has recently been launched. The blog describes itself  as “dedicated to the thought of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein. Contained within it will be periodic blog posts recording conversations between talmidim and Rav Lichtenstein on a variety […]

The Legal Theory Blog has a very interesting overview of legal and philosophical pragmatism.

The following call for papers for a conference on “Neighbors in Jewish Studies” was disseminated by the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies Young Scholars Conference at Columbia University: Neighbors in Jewish Studies Call for Papers Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies Young Scholars Conference June 5-7, 2013 Columbia University, New York The Institute for Israel […]

The following is the call for papers for this year’s Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop:

Georgetown University Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, Columbia Law School, and UCLA School of Law invite submissions for the ninth meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be […]

Nahel N. Asfour, University of Vienna Faculty of Law, has published Law and Literature: Jewish and Christian Models at 6 Pólemos: Journal of Law, Literature and Culture  263 (2012). Here is the abstract:

Law and literature is the study of the utilities of the reciprocal ties between the two domains. Classic approaches divide the […]

William S. Brewbaker (University of Alabama – School of Law) has posted The Bible as Law Book: Thomas Aquinas on the Juridical Uses of Scripture (Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 12, Page 76) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Law (hereinafter “Treatise”) is enjoying a resurgence of interest […]

The Friedberg Genizah Project has just released version 10 of its website. From the press release:

“Genazim” is pleased to announce the launching of Version 10 of the
Genizah website.

Following is an overview of the improvements in this version.
A. Images

1. Cambridge

With great satisfaction we announce the […]

Zvi Zohar has just published a new book on Rabbi Ben Zion Uzziel’s attitude to conversion, ‘And None Among Them Shall be Lost’: The Attitude of Rabbi Ben Zion Uzziel Toward Contemporary Conversion as Reflected in His Halakhic Responsa (Hebrew). Zohar is also the author of Rabbi Uzziel and His Peers: Studies in the Religious […]

Jay R. Berkovitz has just published “The Persona of a Poseq: Law and Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century Ashkenaz,” in the current issue of Modern Judaism.