ROBERTO ARON is listed in Whos Who In American Law as Author, Teacher and He received his LL.B. degree from the University of Chiles Faculty of Law. He began his career as a trial attorney in Chile where he practiced law and taught a course in Forensic Oratory. In 1957 he moved to Israel and became a member of that countrys Bar. Mr. Aron has three Master of Law degrees from New York University in International Legal Studies, in Corporate and Commercial Law and from NYUs Skirball Department a Master of Arts Degree (Talmudic Law). He has participated in two National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) workshops held at Harvard Law School and in the Oxford Trial Advocacy Program, held at Oxford University Law School in England. For fourteen years Mr. Aron has been the chair of Trial Advocacy at the Law School of Tel Aviv University. He has also been a guest teacher at New York Universitys School of Law in courses directed by Professor Chester L. Mirsky and Anthony G. Amsterdam. In 1975 Mr. Aron was designated by the Israeli Government as adviser to the Israeli Mission to the United Nations and moved to New York where he began his work as a writer, co-authoring four books for Shepards/McGraw- Hill and West Group How to Prepare Witnesses for Trial, Cross Examination Skills- the Litigator Puzzle, Impeachment of Witnesses and Trial Communications Skills. Influence of Jewish Law in Some American Constitutional Amendments By Roberto Aron AuthorHouse Copyright © 2012 Roberto Aron All right reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4389-6457-7 Contents Dedication........................................................................................................................................................................ixWords of Oscar S. Straus..........................................................................................................................................................xiForeword: Pynchas Brener..........................................................................................................................................................xiiiForeword: Professor Jacob Zighelboim..............................................................................................................................................xvIntroduction......................................................................................................................................................................xviiChapter One: Influences of Other Systems of Law on Jewish Law and Vice Versa......................................................................................................1S.1.01—The Code of Hammurabi................................................................................................................................................2S. 1.02—The Influence of Jewish Law on the Development of Jurisprudence in the Christian Orient.............................................................................4S. 1.03—Greek Influence on Jewish Law.......................................................................................................................................6S. 1.04—Comparison of Roman and Jewish Law..................................................................................................................................7S. 1.05—Resemblances Between Jewish and English Law.........................................................................................................................10Chapter Two: Two Settings of Laws: The Jewish Setting, A Religious One; The American Setting, A People's Law......................................................................14S. 2.01—The Bible and the American Constitution.............................................................................................................................14S. 2.02—Structure of the Hebrew Bible.......................................................................................................................................15S. 2.03—Structure of the American Constitution..............................................................................................................................16S. 2.04—The Powers of the Presidency........................................................................................................................................17S. 2.05—The Extent of Democracy in the Constitution.........................................................................................................................17S. 2.06—Government As the Servant of the People.............................................................................................................................17S. 2.07—Checks and Balances Provided by the Constitution....................................................................................................................18S. 2.08—The Bible, A Religious Law; The American Constitution, A People's Law.........