Volume 20 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1-19 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential, historical, textual and comparative analysis of issues in Jewish law.

Berachuahu Lifshitz is Professor at the Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

1. Midrashic Exegesis and Legal Creativity in the Meshekh Hokhma, Yitshak Cohen 2. Exegetical Creativity in Interpreting the Biblical Laws on Capital Offenses, Israel Zvi Gilat 3. Problematic Halakhic 'Creativity' in Israeli Rabbinical Court Rulings, Amihai Radzyner 4. Privacy in Jewish Law: A Historical and Conceptual Analysis, Arye Schreiber 5. HIV Vaccine Triage: Halakhic Considerations, Shalom C. Spira and Mark A. Wainberg 6. Contractual Consequences of Cohabitation in American Law and Jewish Law, Ronnie Warburg 7. Book Review: Yuval Sinai, Application of Jewish Law in the Israeli Courts, Steven F. Friedell