Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
Law professor and scholar of Jewish law and cultural Jewish identity, serving as Raymond P. Niro Professor at DePaul University College of Law and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law.
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Feb 27, 2026 • 1h 15min
Zev Eleff et al. eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Chaim Saiman, Chair in Jewish Law at Villanova, Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, law scholar at DePaul, and Zev Eleff, historian and president of Gratz College, discuss The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law. They trace the handbook's origins and interdisciplinary, law-centered aims. They compare halakhah across traditions, explore modern challenges like family, denomination differences, authority, and the future of transmission.
