Elimelech Westreich (Tel Aviv University – Buchmann Faculty of Law) & Avishalom Westreich (College of Law and Business – Ramat Gan Law School) have posted Jewish Law: Marriage (Routledge Handbook of Religious Law (2019)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
In this essay, we introduce the basic Jewish law (halakhic) regulations and doctrines regarding key legal institutions related to marriage.
One way of understanding legal institutions is to shed light on turning points in their development or on times of change. We focus mainly on changes that took place over time in Jewish law concerning marriage and divorce, primarily on those that are relevant to the status of the wife within this regime.
This includes the following topics:
1. The formation of marriage, which affects the conditions under which the partners enter into the marriage contract,
2. Bigamy, which affects both the marriage contract and the course of the marriage,
3. Mutually-agreed and coerced divorce, which affects the end of the marriage; and
4. Levirate marriage, which affects both the beginning and the end of the marriage.