Lectures to focus on interplay of Jewish and American law

Michigan State University College of Law will host two lectures this month by Rabbi and Professor Samuel J. Levine, director of the Jewish Law Institute at Touro College Jacob D.Fuchsberg Law Center in New York.

Levine will discuss Jewish law and the American legal system in a lecture titled “From Talmud to Constitution: The Comparative Evolution of Legal Systems.”

Both events are open to the public, and reservations can be made online. The lecture is sponsored by the Beznos Family in memory of Fay and Samuel Beznos.

The first lecture is scheduled Thursday, June 23, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts at the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit in West Bloomfield Township, and will feature a special guest —Michigan Supreme Court Justice Stephen Markman, who will offer closing remarks.

The second lecture will take place on Wednesday, June 29, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.  at MSU Law in East Lansing.

For additional information or to register online, visit www.law.msu.edu.