Frankel Center for Judaic Studies

Bridging Legal Worlds: Jewish Women as Litigants before a German Imperial Supreme Court Guest Speaker: Tamar Menashe (Emory University) In 1495, Germany’s Imperial Chamber Court (Reichskammergericht) was founded as the institution that oversaw the adoption of Roman law as Germany’s imperial civil law. In 1511, a Jewish woman named Elena, who sued her husband and […]