Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory

Yuval Sinai is the President of Orot Israel College. He served as a Visiting Professor at Yale University, McGill University, Hebrew University and Bar Ilan University, as well as Associate Professor of Law at the School of Law at Netanya College. He has received grants from the Israel Science Foundation and Schusterman Foundation, and has received the Riklis Prize for studies in Jewish law. Benjamin Shmueli is Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University law school, Israel. He has previously served as a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School and a Visiting Professor at Duke Law School. He has received grants from the Israel Science Foundation, The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Schusterman Foundation, and the Israel Institute Research Grant. He has also received the Riklis Prize for studies in Jewish law.

Introduction; 1. Initial presentation; 2. Tort liability in Maimonides' Code: the downside of the common interpretation; 3. The foundations of the Maimonidean theory: different goals for different categories of damage; 4. The deontological and religious elements of Maimonides' tort theory; 5. Consequentialist considerations in the Guide for the Perplexed; Appendix to chapter 5: the rules of liability and contributory Negligence according to Maimonides in the Guide 3:40 compared with Calabresi and Posner; 6. Revisiting the problematic texts of the Code in light of the Guide and contemporary scholarship; 7. Maimonides' standard of care: a differential liability model; 8. Maimonides as a pluralistic-differential scholar and contemporary tort law theories: a dialogue and lessons; 9. Reflections on Maimonides' tort theory (Guido Calabresi); Index.