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The main argument in this BRP is that assisted reproduction in Israel gives expression to and develops the right to procreate. It is a complex right, and therefore at times no consensus has been reached on the form of its actual application (as in the case of surrogacy and egg donation, and, from a different direction, in that of posthumous sperm retrieval). This right, however, despite the debates on its boundaries, is widely accepted, practiced, and even encouraged in the Israeli context, with a constructive collaboration of three main elements: the Israeli civil legal system, religious law (which in the context of the Israeli majority is Jewish law), and Israeli society and culture.
Price: $94.00
Pages: 62
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Family Law in a Global Society
Publication Date:
22 March 2018
ISBN: 9789004346062
Format: Paperback
Avishalom Westreich is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) of Jewish Law, Family Law, and Jurisprudence, at the College of Law and Business in Ramat Gan and a Research Fellow at the Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought at Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, at Harvard Law School (Fall 2017), a Helen Gartner Hammer Scholar-in-Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University (Fall 2016), and a research fellow at the Agunah Research Unit at the University of Manchester (2007-2008).
His research deals primarily with the dramatic changes in the family during the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. His previous publications include No-Fault Divorce in the Jewish Tradition (2014 [Hebrew]) and Talmud-Based Solutions to the Problem of the Agunah (Agunah Research Unit, vol. 4, 2012).
His research deals primarily with the dramatic changes in the family during the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. His previous publications include No-Fault Divorce in the Jewish Tradition (2014 [Hebrew]) and Talmud-Based Solutions to the Problem of the Agunah (Agunah Research Unit, vol. 4, 2012).