About the jla

Founded in 1978, the Jewish Law Association promotes study and research in Jewish Law. The JLA provides a major interdisciplinary meeting point for scholars and practitioners in both Law and Jewish Studies. Our membership represents diverse religious, philosophical and intellectual perspectives, and draws scholars from Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Israel, North America, Argentina and Australia. The Association has now held 20 international conferences, as well as regional conferences in North America, Israel and Europe.
The Association's peer reviewed journal, Jewish Law Association Studies, includes thematic volumes on subjects ranging from Jewish Identity, Family Law, and Commercial Law, to Jewish Biomedical Law, Bioethics, Medieval Halakhah, and Jewish Law as an Academic Discipline. The JLA also publishes a thrice-yearly newsletter JLA International and a review of books, JLA Review.

Miryam Segal, Chair
Associate Professor, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Beth Berkowitz, Vice Chair
Professor and Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies, Barnard College

Emmanuel Bloch, Treasurer
Visiting Research Scholar, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Rachel Slutsky, Secretary
Monsignor John Oesterreicher Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity, Seton Hall University