Expanding Legal Horizons?

· Edward Fram, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

The Legal Status of the Wife in Ashkenazi Jewish Legal Tradition: Continuity and Change in the Sixteenth Century

· Elimelech (Melech) Westreich, Tel Aviv University Law School, Israel

Takkanot Kahal and the origin of communal structures in a Franconian village community in the 17th century

· Stefan Litt, Bar Ilan University, Israel / Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria ,

Challenging Herem in Hamburg, 1732

· David Horowitz, Columbia University, USA

The Herem as the Source of Authority of the Lay Governing Council

· Anne Oravetz Albert, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Evasion as a Legal Tactic: The 1616 Amsterdam Regulations Concerning the Jews

· Miriam Bodian, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Under imperial Protection? Jewish Presence on the Imperial Aulic Court in the 16th and 17th Centuries

· Barbara Staudinger, Institute for Jewish History in Austria, Austria

Jews at the Court of the Kadi

· Yaron Ben-Naeh, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Trying Issues: Polish-Lithuanian Jews under Multiple Jurisdictions

· Adam Teller, University of Haifa, Israel

When the Indelible Sacrament of Baptism Met Mercantile Raison d'Etat

· Benjamin Ravid, Brandeis University, USA

The Jews and Ius Commune

· Kenneth Stow, Haifa University, Israel

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