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Syllabus Tax Law and Jewish Law: Eqity and Efficiency Aspects - 62631
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Last update 16-10-2018
HU Credits: 4

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: Law

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Prof David Gliksberg

Coordinator Email: david.gliksberg@huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours:

Teaching Staff:
Prof David Gliksberg

Course/Module description:
The seminar deals with tax issues in Jewish law.

Course/Module aims:

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Analyze major tax law’s issues from the perspective of Jewish law

Attendance requirements(%):

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:

Course/Module Content:
1. History and Law
2. Tax regimes from modern perspective: difficulties and challenges
3. Paradigms for constructing distributive justice in the social order
4. Social stratification - Present and past
5. Religious paradigm and Civil paradigm
6. The power to impose taxes
7. Biblical taxation and its effects
8. Analysis of Talmudic tax issues
9. Tax policy: tax exemption for scholars as a case study
10. Responsa Literature Studies
11. charity and taxes: institutional and normative aspects.
12. Internal taxation and External taxation

Required Reading:
will be updated during the classes.

Additional Reading Material:

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 100 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

Additional information:
 
Students needing academic accommodations based on a disability should contact the Center for Diagnosis and Support of Students with Learning Disabilities, or the Office for Students with Disabilities, as early as possible, to discuss and coordinate accommodations, based on relevant documentation.
For further information, please visit the site of the Dean of Students Office.
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