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Broyde lectures on religious courts at Stanford
By CSLR | Emory Law | Oct 31, 2017 11:10:00 AM

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Michael J. Broyde lectures at Stanford :
"Religious Courts and the Rule of Law: Friends of Foes?"

Michael J. Broyde lectured at Stanford Law School on "Religious Courts and the Rule of Law: Friends of Foes?" In opening his lecture, he said the Jewish tradition decided a long time agon to be a diasporic tradition. "It was for 2,000 years almost exclusively a minority diasporic tradition. Yet it did not give up on the doctrine of law. Not only didn't it give up on the doctrine of law, it doubled down and insisted there was something called Jewish law, which it would seek to make binding on people who identified with the Jewish community." This inevitably gave rise to problems with enforcement mechanisms. "It's nice to have law, but unless it has teeth, it's not really law." View the lecture here.