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Tim­o­thy D. Lytton

Tim­o­thy D. Lyt­ton | Jew­ish Book Coun­cil Tim­o­thy D. Lyt­ton is the Albert & Angela Farone Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor of Law at Albany Law School. He holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from Yale Uni­ver­si­ty and has served as a fel­low in the Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty Pro­gram in Ethics and the Pro­fes­sions as well as the Hart­man Insti­tute for Advanced Jew­ish Stud­ies in Jerusalem. He is the author ofKosher: Pri­vate Reg­u­la­tion in the Age of Indus­tri­al Food recent­ly pub­lished by Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty Press (2013) and Hold­ing Bish­ops Account­able: How Law­suits Helped the Catholic Church Con­front Cler­gy Sex­u­al Abuse also pub­lished by Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty Press (2008). In addi­tion, he has pub­lished book chap­ters and arti­cles on the roots of law and jurispru­dence in bib­li­cal and rab­binic texts.

Orga­nized Crime and Kosher Food Certification

Scan­dal and Self-Cor­rec­tion in Kosher Food Certification

Con­sumer Vig­i­lance and the Kosher Cook­ies-and-Cream Ice Cream Caper
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Con­sumer Vig­i­lance and the Kosher Cook­ies-and-Cream Ice Cream Caper

Ear­li­er this week Tim­o­thy D. Lyt­ton wrote about a recent scan­dal at a kosher meat mar­ket in L.A. and orga­nized crime and kosher food…
Tim­o­thy D. Lytton
June 27, 2013
Essay

Scan­dal and Self-Cor­rec­tion in Kosher Food Certification

Ear­li­er this week Tim­o­thy D. Lyt­ton wrote about orga­nized crime and kosher food cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
Tim­o­thy D. Lytton
June 26, 2013
Essay

Orga­nized Crime and Kosher Food Certification

Tim­o­thy D. Lyt­ton is the author of the recent­ly pub­lished Kosher: Pri­vate Reg­u­la­tion in the Age of Indus­tri­al Food (Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty Press). He…
Tim­o­thy D. Lytton
June 24, 2013
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Kosher: Pri­vate Reg­u­la­tion in the Age of Indus­tri­al Food
Tim­o­thy D. Lytton

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