Maimonides and contemporary tort theory : law, religion, economics, and morality / Yuval Sinai, Netanya College Law School & Orot Israel College; Benjamin Shmueli, Bar-Ilan University, Israel ; with Guido Calabresi, Yale Law School

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Initial Presentation -- Tort liability in Maimonides' Code : The Downside of the Common -- Interpretation -- The Foundations of the Maimonidean Theory : Different Goals for Different -- Categories of Damage -- The Deontological and Religious Elements of Maimonides' Tort Theory -- Consequentialist Considerations in the Guide for the Perplexed : -- Appendix to chapter 5: The Rules of Liability and Contributory Negligence -- according to Maimonides in the Guide 3:40 compared with Calabresi and -- Posner -- Revisiting the Problematic Texts of the Code in Light of the Guide and -- Contemporary Scholarship -- Maimonides' Standard of Care : A Differential Liability Model -- Maimonides as a Pluralistic-Differential Scholar and Contemporary Tort Law -- Theories : A Dialogue and Lessons -- Reflections on Maimonides' Tort Theory / Guido Calabresi)

"Maimonides lived in Spain and Egypt in the 12th century and is perhaps the most widely studied figure in Jewish history. This book presents, for the first time, Maimonides' complete tort theory and how it compares with other tort theories both in the Jewish world and beyond. Drawing on sources old and new as well as religious and secular, Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory offers fresh interdisciplinary perspectives on important moral, consequentialist, economic, and religious issues that will be of interest to both religious and secular scholars. The authors mention several surprising points of similarity between certain elements of theories recently formulated by North American scholars and the Maimonidean theory. Alongside these similarities significant differences are also highlighted, some of them deriving from conceptual-jurisprudential differences and some from the difference between religious law and secular-liberal law"-- Provided by publisher.