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Tel: 215.898.4935
Email: edreia@post.tau.ac.il
Bio
Arye Edrei is a professor of law at Tel-Aviv University. He teaches a variety of courses on the history and philosophy of Jewish Law. His main fields of interest are Talmudic jurisprudence and Jewish Law in the 20th century. He also has written on "law and ideology" and "law and memory."
Together with Professor Suzanne Last Stone (previous Penn Law Gruss Professor), Edrei is the co-editor in chief of "Dinei Israel," a Journal of Jewish Law, published jointly by the Tel-Aviv University Law Faculty and the Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University. He earned an LL.B, LL.M and Ph.D at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and did post doctoral studies as a Harry Star Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University (1996-1998). Edrei served as a visiting professor at Toronto University Law School (2003); Cardozo Law School (2004; 2008); and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (2009). He was also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2005). Edrei, together with professor Doron Mendels, is the author of Split Jewish Diaspora (I & II), to be published in Germany by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (November 2009). His main recent articles include: "War, Halakhah, and Redemption: The Military and Warfare in the Halakhic Thought of Rabbi Shlomo Goren" and "Holocaust Memorial: A Paradigm of Competing Memories in the Religious and Secular Societies in Israel." His current primary project is a book on "Halakhah in the Twentieth Century," which focuses primarily on contemporary halakhic reactions to the Jewish sovereignty.
Representative Publications
SELECTED TOPICS IN JEWISH LAW, ed. (Routledge, 2007) (with Haninah Ben-Menachem).
The Halakhic Responsibilty of the Deceased: A Further Study of the Concept of Inheritance in Talmudic Thought, 34 ISRAEL L. REV. 821 (2000).
Spirit and Power: Rabbi Shlomo Goren and the Military Ethic of the Israel Defense Force, 7 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES L. 255 (2005-06).
Law, Interpretation, and Ideology: The Renewal of the Jewish Laws of War in the State of Israel, 28 CARDOZO L. REV. 187 (2006).
The Validity of an Erroneous Ruling Issued by the Court, in SELECTED TOPICS IN JEWISH LAW, (Routledge 2007).
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Education
- Ph.D. (law) - Hebrew University of Jerusalem - '93
- LL.M. - Hebrew University of Jerusalem - '86
- LL.B. - Hebrew University of Jerusalem - '82
Research Areas
- Talmudic Jurisprudence
- Jewish Law in the 20th Century
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