Contributions by ‘Ethan J. Leib’

The Anxiety of Influence and Judicial Self-Aggrandizement in Rabbinic Jurisprudence

THE CROWN AND THE COURTS: SEPARATION OF POWERS IN THE EARLY JEWISH IMAGINATION. David C. Flatto.* Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2020. Pp. 367. $39.95 (Hardcover). Ethan J. Leib[1] INTRODUCTION The separation of powers is often at the center of modern constitutional governance.[2] But David Flatto’s recent book, The Crown and the Courts, invites us…

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