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Symposium Religious Values And Corporate Decision Making: An Interdisciplinary Interfaith Conference For Corporate Executives And Legal Counsel, Amelia J. Uelmen, William Michael Treanor
Symposium Religious Values And Corporate Decision Making: An Interdisciplinary Interfaith Conference For Corporate Executives And Legal Counsel, Amelia J. Uelmen, William Michael Treanor
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
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Symposium Panel One: Does Corporate Decision Making Allow Room For Religious Values, Russell G. Pearce, Steven H. Resnicoff, Mark A. Sargent, W Bradley Wendel
Symposium Panel One: Does Corporate Decision Making Allow Room For Religious Values, Russell G. Pearce, Steven H. Resnicoff, Mark A. Sargent, W Bradley Wendel
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
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Symposium Keynote Address: An Economist's Perspective, Stefano Zamagni, Henry Schwalbenberg Response
Symposium Keynote Address: An Economist's Perspective, Stefano Zamagni, Henry Schwalbenberg Response
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
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Symposium Final Discussion, Robert Hurley
Symposium Final Discussion, Robert Hurley
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.
Symposium Panel Two: Managing As If Faith Matters, Talat Ansari, Charles M.A Clark, Joseph E. Geoghan
Symposium Panel Two: Managing As If Faith Matters, Talat Ansari, Charles M.A Clark, Joseph E. Geoghan
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
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Symposium Panel Three: Viable Models: Shareholder Resolutions, Patricia Daly, Rabbi Mordechai Liebling
Symposium Panel Three: Viable Models: Shareholder Resolutions, Patricia Daly, Rabbi Mordechai Liebling
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
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Advocacy And Compassion In The Jewish Tradition, Daniel B. Sinclair
Advocacy And Compassion In The Jewish Tradition, Daniel B. Sinclair
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This essay surveys the Talmudic sources dealing with the issue of advocacy in Jewish law, and highlights the element of compassion that underlies the permissive approach to advocacy in the Talmudic sources. It outlines post-Talmudic developments with a special emphasis on the way in which the medieval authorities synthesized the views of the two Talmuds on the question of advocacy, and how later halakhists pushed this synthesis to its limits in order to pave the way for the emergence of the rabbinical pleader of modern times. This essay concludes with a brief remark on the link between compassion and advocacy …
Religious Values, Legal Ethics, And Poverty Law: A Response To Thomas Shaffer, Stephen Wizner
Religious Values, Legal Ethics, And Poverty Law: A Response To Thomas Shaffer, Stephen Wizner
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Stephen Wizner provides a response to Thomas Shaffer's article on his pursuit of social justice through using religious figures as role models. Wizner argues that Shaffer is clearly right in asserting that there is much in the prophetic literature, and, indeed, in the entire Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, that could serve as a moral impetus for social justice lawyering. One can find considerable support for Shaffer's religious thesis in the texts that he cites, and in the words of the prophets he looks to as role models. Nevertheless, Wizner presents a skeptical response to Professor Shaffer's thoughtful essay. …
A Vocation For Law? American Jewish Lawyers And Their Antecedents, Marc Galanter
A Vocation For Law? American Jewish Lawyers And Their Antecedents, Marc Galanter
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Louis D. Brandeis is the presiding eminence in the story of the encounter of Jewish with the American legal order. In the centuries since Brandeis started practicing law, Jews have flourished exceedingly in both the legal professional mainstream (practitioners, judiciaries, academics) and the public interest sector. Can this extravagant participation in both hemispheres of the world of American lawyering be explained by something unique to the Jewish tradition or experience? This Essay addresses that question by focusing on Brandeis, who manifests in his person both sides of this extraordinary flourishing. Brandeis seems a felicitous path to understanding, not because he …