Jewish Law Annual (Vol 7)

Part 1 The philosophy of Jewish law (II): Judaism and natural law, J.D. Bleich; natural law, halakhah and the covenant, D.Novak; the covenant - the transendent thrust in Jewish law, E.N.Dorff; some tensions in the Jewish attitude toward the taking of human life, M.Sokol; the interaction of morality and Jewish law, I.Englard; fact scepticism in Jewish law, A.M.Fuss; Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik's philosophy of halakhah, L.Kaplan; law in Reform Judaism - a study of Solomon Freehof, D.Cohn-Sherbok; leeways of choice, natural law and justice in Jewish legal ordering, J.Stone. Part 2 Survey of recent literature.