The Jewish Law Association is seeking papers on the topic of Canon, Authority, and the Creation of Halakhah. The JLA International 2024 Conference will take place at the Harvard Law School and will be co-hosted by the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law. This conference seeks to expose and to explore the myriad ways that ideas, definitions, and rhetoric of canon and authority provide the impression of inevitability in halakhic decision-making. We aim to explore both the ways in which halakhic decision-making establishes ideas of canonicity (what is “inside” what is “outside” the canon) and the ways in which the establishment of a canon, as well as its sometimes-unclarified border, shapes halakhic decision-making. We seek papers that interrogate a variety of historical periods (ancient to contemporary), geographic locations, genres and literatures from a wide range of academic perspectives. We also encourage papers that tackle these questions from a pedagogical perspective.https://jewishlawassociation.org/