Benjamin Porat
Biographic Data
| ID | 2528649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Porat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Porat |
| SIGNATURE | PORAT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Law As Religion, Religion As Law
Deciding Between Contradicting Norms
The concept of rights stands at the very center of our legal universe. An imaginary alternative legal universe might have similar legal norms to ours, except that they are centered on the concept of duty. Is there any significant difference between these two legal universes? The Hohfeldian assumption of complete correlativity between rights and duties might imply that the difference between these two universes is merely a matter of rhetoric. This…
Law As Religion
Ownership and Exclusivity
In recent years, many have come to consider the right to exclude as the Punctum Archimedis that the concept of property is based upon. In the present article, I seek to re-evaluate the relations between property and exclusivity from an unusual vantage point: a comparison between two deeply-rooted legal traditions – Anglo-American law and Jewish law. For this purpose, I analyze four fundamental doctrinal differences between these two legal traditi…
Contracts to the Detriment of a Third Party
When two parties enter into a contract, a third party often incurs losses as a result of that contract. Are there circumstances in which the harm the contract causes to the third party’s interest is actionable? The phenomenon of contracts to the detriment of a third party presents a significant legal challenge. It is one of those interesting border-line cases that sharpens the problematic confrontation between the principle of freedom of contract…
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Contracts to the Detriment of a Third Party
When two parties enter into a contract, a third party often incurs losses as a result of that contract. Are there circumstances in which the harm the contract causes to the third party’s interest is actionable? The phenomenon of contracts to the detriment of a third party presents a significant legal challenge. It is one of those interesting border-line cases that sharpens the problematic confrontation between the principle of freedom of contract…
Ownership and Exclusivity
In recent years, many have come to consider the right to exclude as the Punctum Archimedis that the concept of property is based upon. In the present article, I seek to re-evaluate the relations between property and exclusivity from an unusual vantage point: a comparison between two deeply-rooted legal traditions – Anglo-American law and Jewish law. For this purpose, I analyze four fundamental doctrinal differences between these two legal traditi…
Law As Religion, Religion As Law
Deciding Between Contradicting Norms
The concept of rights stands at the very center of our legal universe. An imaginary alternative legal universe might have similar legal norms to ours, except that they are centered on the concept of duty. Is there any significant difference between these two legal universes? The Hohfeldian assumption of complete correlativity between rights and duties might imply that the difference between these two universes is merely a matter of rhetoric. This…
Law As Religion
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Comparative law (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Human rights (2 works) · Judaism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works)