This online symposium sponsored by the Southwestern Journal of International Law examines how “loopholes” operate in Jewish, Islamic, and secular legal traditions, taking as its point of departure Elana Stein Hain’s Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024).

The program will explore how different traditions distinguish between legitimate circumventions and evasions that threaten the spirit of the law, and what these debates reveal about authority, intent, and integrity in legal systems.

Featured speakers:

• Deborah Barer, Senior Faculty at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America
• Rabea Benhalim, Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School
• Mark Cammack, Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School
• Adam Chodorow, Jack E. Brown Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
• Leo Katz, Frank Carano Professor of Law at Penn Carey Law, University of Pennsylvania
• Arif Maftuhin, Dean of the Faculty of Dakwah and Communication at UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• Elana Stein Hain, Rosh Beit Midrash and Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

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