Jewish Law in American Legal Scholarship

If you are going to be at the AALS in DC on Jan 4, check out this fascinating program sponsored by the Section on Jewish Law , entitled "Emerging Applications of Jewish Law in American Legal Scholarship." Of particular interest will be a paper by my Villanova Law colleague Chaim Saiman on "Christian Legal Theory--A Rabbinic Perspective." I've had several discussions with Chaim about his paper, and he has some quite original thoughts about how fundamental differences in Jewish  and Christian thinking about moral theology influence our understandings of law. I think we are sorely in need of dialogue with our Jewish colleagues about our Catholic legal theory project -- we are both interested in how our religious faith influences the way we understand and do law, lawyering and legal scholarship, so the differences and similarities between the Catholic/Christian and Jewish perspectives on this question would be very interesting.

http://www.aals.org/am2007/thursday/jewishlawflyer.pdf