Hope Times Online Professor Bernard Jackson Featured Speaker at New York Conference Professor Bernard Jackson Featured Speaker at New York Conference |
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 Hope's recently appointed Professor of Law & Jewish Studies, Bernard Jackson, is the featured speaker at a New York conference on 'Jewish Family Law, the Agunah and General Issues in Jewish Law' next Sunday 7th and Monday 8th February.
The conference is organised by the Fordham Law School Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer's Work, in association with The Jewish Law Association (of which Professor Jackson is the current Chairman). On the first day, Professor Jackson will present the research findings and recommendations of the Agunah Research Unit at The University of Manchester, which he directed between 2004 and 2009. The Unit sought to find a solution to the problem of a wife whose husband refuses to co-operate in the Jewish divorce proceedings. A panel of leading American Rabbis will respond to Professor Jackson's presentation. On the second evening, Professor Jackson will close the conference by delivering the Law School's annual Wolff Lecture, on the topic of 'Jewish Law and State Law: Some Comparative Perspectives from England'. This develops his earlier work on the controversy provoked by the Archbishop of Canterbury's 2008 remarks about English law and shari'a law, adding an analysis of the December 2009 Supreme Court decision which required the Jewish Free School in London to rewrite its admission rules. |
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| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 February 2010 ) |
