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By any measure, Judith Gardam has accomplished much in her professional life and is rightly acknowledged by scholars throughout the world as an expert in her many fields of diverse interest — including international law, energy law and feminist theory. This book celebrates her academic life and work with twelve essays from leading scholars in Gardam's fields of expertise.

The Woodchopper revisited : on analogy, Halakhah, and Jewish bioethics / Mark Washofsky -- "An Ounce of Prevention, A Pound of Cure" : preventive surgery as legitimate medicine / Audrey R. Korotkin -- Compulsory testing for HIV and other infectious diseases / Jonah Sievers -- Changing views of health care delivery / Walter Jacob -- Selected responsa : Dangers of surgery correcting congenital craniofacial malformations -- Banks for human organs -- AIDS and free needles for drug addicts -- Taharah and AIDS -- Jewish involvement in genetic engineering -- Patenting genetic engineering ; edited by Walter Jacob ; Includes bibliographical references ; Medical frontiers and Jewish law

edited by Walter Jacob ; Includes bibliographical references ; Introduction -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on war ; Torture, terrorism, and the Halakhah ; Martyrdom for the sake of heaven ; Some thoughts on redeeming captives ; Is Jewish pacifism legitimate? ; Fighting in national armies ; Fighting in the Israeli Army ; Selected responsa ; On the redemption of captives ; Ransoming a kidnaped executive ; Concealing Jewish identity ; Jewish lawyer and terrorists ; Wearing a sword ; Use of the "Lord's Prayer" by a soldier ; Wearing a cross ; Volunteering for the military chaplaincy ; The conscientious objector ; Pacifism and Judaism.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction and Acknowledgments -- Part I Constraints and Challenges -- 1 Legal Complexity: Some Causes, Consequences, and Cures -- Introduction -- I. The Growth in Legal Complexity -- II. The Problematics of Legal Complexity -- III. The Political Economy of Legal Complexity -- IV. The Limits of Legal Complexity -- V. Toward Legal Simplification: A Strategy for Reform -- VI. Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Multi-Culturalism Redux: Science, Law, and Politics -- I. Two Case Studies -- II. The Competing Cultures -- III. Looking Ahead -- IV. Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Some Reflections on the Federalism Debate -- Introduction -- I. The Pervasiveness of Devolution -- II. The Global Character of Devolution -- III. Diversity and Devolution -- IV. Technological Change -- V. The Cognitive Demands of Devolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II Institutions and Processes -- 4 The Politics of Regulation -- I. Economic Regulation -- II. Social Regulation -- III. Wilson's Theory of Regulatory Politics -- IV. The Courts and Regulation -- V. The Zeitgeist and Regulation -- Notes -- 5 When the Exception Becomes the Rule: Regulatory Equity and the Formulation of Energy Policy Through an Exceptions Process -- I. Regulation and Equity -- IV. Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Law arid Post-Privatization Regulatory Reform: Perspectives from the U.S. Experience -- I. The Pro-Market Presumption -- II. Improving the Effectiveness of Regulation -- III. Extra-Regulatory Institutions and Processes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 Against (and for) Madison: An Essay in Praise of Factions -- I. Constitutional Protection and Ideological Demonization -- II. The Claims Underlying the Critique of Special Interests -- III. A Qualified Defense of Factions -- IV. Remedies -- Notes

Legitimate authority -- The claims of law -- Legal positivism and the sources of law -- Legal reasons, sources, and gaps -- The identity of legal systems -- The institutional nature of law -- Kelsen's theory of the basic norm -- Legal validity -- The functions of law -- Law and value in adjudication -- The rule of law and its virtue -- The obligation to obey the law -- Respect for law -- A right to dissent? : civil disobedience -- A right to dissent? : conscientious objection --The purity of the pure theory -- The argument from justice, or how not to reply to legal positivism

'Mapping the Law' covers topics such as aspects of unjust enrichment, tracing, damages & compensation, undue influence property law, insolvency, equity & trusts, Roman law, & legal history. This collection of essays on private law & legal history celebrates the life & work of Peter Birks