The Constitutional Limits on Federal Power and the Limits of Interpretative Freedom in Judaic Law
New York, NY, December 01, 2010 --(PR.com)-- In wake of the debate about constitutional limits on federal power, The Institute of American & Talmudic Law (IAT Law) will be hosting a CLE approved seminar entitled “The Tea Party and the Talmud: The Constitutional Limits on Federal Power and the limits of interpretative freedom in Judaic law,” in New York City, on Thursday, December 16,
The program will be held at Chabad of the Plaza District on 57th street off 5th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, 5:00pm – 7:15pm.
The event will feature Jeffrey Rosen, renowned Professor of Law at George Washington University and legal affairs editor of the New Republic, and Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, Dean of IAT Law.
Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at The George Washington University and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. His most recent book is The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America. He also is the author of The Most Democratic Branch, The Naked Crowd, and The Unwanted Gaze. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School.
Professor Rosen's essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer. The Chicago Tribune named him one of the 10 best magazine journalists in America and the L.A. Times called him, "the nation's most widely read and influential legal commentator." Professor Rosen lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife Christine Rosen and two sons.
Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe is a renowned scholar, author and lecturer. A profound thinker, he has written and lectured on the Judaic perspective of contemporary, legal, scientific and social issues. Rabbi Yaffe a co-founder and dean of IAT Law, and he currently serves as scholar-in-residence at Chabad of Harvard University.
Program Overview:
From the ascendancy of the tea party to constitutional challenges to health care reform, campaign finance reform, and financial reform, America is now engaged in a vigorous debate about constitutional limits on federal power. The Talmudic tradition, too, has much to teach about this question, with the Jewish law tradition of constitutional layers of judicial review. In this wide ranging discussion, two leading scholars of the Talmud and the Constitution, Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe and Professor Rosen, will compare the American and Talmudic approaches to constitutional limits on the power of the state.
The Institute of American and Talmudic Law (IAT Law), is a New York City based non-profit organization that provides continuing legal education CLE to attorneys and other professionals, and is an affiliate of Chabad-Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan (NY). IAT Law is known throughout the field of continuing legal education as one of the top providers of innovative and entertaining CLE programs on a wide range of topics while comparing and contrasting American and Talmudic Law.
Chabad of Midtown Manhattan is a an organization affiliated with the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch outreach organization who’s humanitarian and educational activities span the globe.
For more information please visit www.iatlaw.org E mail director@iatlaw.org or call (212) 302-2444.
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The program will be held at Chabad of the Plaza District on 57th street off 5th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, 5:00pm – 7:15pm.
The event will feature Jeffrey Rosen, renowned Professor of Law at George Washington University and legal affairs editor of the New Republic, and Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, Dean of IAT Law.
Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at The George Washington University and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. His most recent book is The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America. He also is the author of The Most Democratic Branch, The Naked Crowd, and The Unwanted Gaze. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School.
Professor Rosen's essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer. The Chicago Tribune named him one of the 10 best magazine journalists in America and the L.A. Times called him, "the nation's most widely read and influential legal commentator." Professor Rosen lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife Christine Rosen and two sons.
Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe is a renowned scholar, author and lecturer. A profound thinker, he has written and lectured on the Judaic perspective of contemporary, legal, scientific and social issues. Rabbi Yaffe a co-founder and dean of IAT Law, and he currently serves as scholar-in-residence at Chabad of Harvard University.
Program Overview:
From the ascendancy of the tea party to constitutional challenges to health care reform, campaign finance reform, and financial reform, America is now engaged in a vigorous debate about constitutional limits on federal power. The Talmudic tradition, too, has much to teach about this question, with the Jewish law tradition of constitutional layers of judicial review. In this wide ranging discussion, two leading scholars of the Talmud and the Constitution, Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe and Professor Rosen, will compare the American and Talmudic approaches to constitutional limits on the power of the state.
The Institute of American and Talmudic Law (IAT Law), is a New York City based non-profit organization that provides continuing legal education CLE to attorneys and other professionals, and is an affiliate of Chabad-Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan (NY). IAT Law is known throughout the field of continuing legal education as one of the top providers of innovative and entertaining CLE programs on a wide range of topics while comparing and contrasting American and Talmudic Law.
Chabad of Midtown Manhattan is a an organization affiliated with the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch outreach organization who’s humanitarian and educational activities span the globe.
For more information please visit www.iatlaw.org E mail director@iatlaw.org or call (212) 302-2444.
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www.IATLaw.org
212-302-2444
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