Pnina Lahav
Boston University School of Law.

This Article was written during my fellowship with the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and I wish to express my gratitude to the IAS and its staff for their gracious hospitality. I also wish to thank members of the Legal History workshop at Tel Aviv
University, members of the workshop at the Faculty of Law of the Netanya College, members of the workshop at Boston University School of Law, and members of my research group at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University for valuable comments and suggestions. I also wish to thank Olga Frishman for her research assistance, and Ron Harris, Assaf Likhovski, Roy Kreitner, Leora Bilsky, Dafna Hacker, Sandy Kedar, Celia Wasserstein-Fassberg, Daphne Barak-Erez, Laura
Kalman, David Sugarman, Yifat Gazit Holzman, Ori Shwartz, and Gail Hupper for their specific comments. The responsibility for the contents of this Article is mine alone.