Volume 19 of the Jewish Law Annual contains ten articles in English and three in Hebrew. Several discuss classic judicial institutions, including the decision rules-conduct rules dichotomy, the "two witnesses" requirement, the prosbul, and normative transparency.

1. The Prosbul-A Legal Fiction?; 2. Shame Punishment in Jewish LegalCulture: Some Preliminary Observations; 3. Refusal to Give a Get: Tort Damages and theRecalcitrant Spouse in Contemporary Jewish Law; 4. Ruth's Conversion: Then and Now, 5. The End of Life in Jewish Law; 6. Man as a Synthesis of Body and Spirit:A Jewish Perspectives; 7. Framing Jewish Law for the Contemporary Law School; 8. Normative Transparency in Jewish Law:Maimonides, R. Moses Sofer and R. Abraham Isaac Kook; 9. The Tort of Negligent Misrepresentation in Investment Planning: A Comparative Analysis; 10. On Conduct Rules and Decision Rules in Jewish Law; 11. Promises in Talmudic Law and Persian Law; 12. Maimonides on the "Two Witnesses" Requirement; 13. The Official Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem (1841-1921), its Composition and Status

Berachyahu Lifshitz is Professor of Comparative law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Law.