About the jla

Founded in 1978, the Jewish Law Association seeks to promote study and research in Jewish Law. It provides a major interdisciplinary meeting point for scholars and practitioners in both Law and Jewish Studies. Its membership represents diverse religious, philosophical and intellectual perspectives, and is drawn from many nations, from Israel to Argentina, from Canada and the United States to Australia, from Western Europe to South Africa. The Association has now held 20 biennial conferences, as well as regional conferences in North America, Israel and Europe. The Association's peer reviewed journal, Jewish Law Association Studies, includes special thematic volumes on subjects ranging from Jewish Identity, Jewish Family Law in Israel, and Jewish Commercial Law, to Jewish Bioethics and Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State.

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