This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained journey, as it were, into a feature of the Jewish legal landscape. In other words, rather than taking a structural approach, and attempting to neatly circumscribe and define 'every' element of Jewish law, Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture takes a dynamic and holistic approach, describing diverse manifestations of Jewish legal culture, without seeking to fit them into a single structure.

Volume 1: Distinguishing features 1. Controversy 2. Legal formalism Judicial process 3.Exigency authority 4. Erroneous rulings 5. Finality of judgment Self-help 6. Self-help 7. Law of the pursuer Volume 2: Law and ethics 8. Equity 9. Charity and distributive justice 10. Euthanasia Private law 11. Agency 12. Employee and independent contractor 13. Unjust enrichment 14. Free market competition

Hanina Ben-Menahem is Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and the Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law at the Harvard Law School, USA.

Arye Edrei is Professor of Law at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Neil S. Hecht is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Jewish Law at Boston University School of Law, USA.