Philo and the Law

Philo's view on the Law is important as a topic within the Philonic symbolic universe per se, but it is also interesting to see how his views on the Law are considered in the running debate on Paul and the Law in light of "the new perspective".
The announcement today of a review in the Review of Biblical Literature of the book of A. Andrew Das, Paul, the Law and the Covenant (Peabody, Mass.,Hendrickson, 2001), reminds me of these issues again. Das has a section on Philo in his book; unfortunately I don't have the book in my office, but as far as I remember, he does not find Philo to quite support the view of the Law in "the new perspective on Paul".
However, this is a complex matter. As the reviewer above also points out, we have a much more comprehensive account on the Law in various sectors of Judaism in the book edited by D. A. Carson , Peter T. O'Brien , Mark Seifrid , Peter T. OBrien, Justification and Variegated Nomism: I. The Complexities of Second Temple Judaism ([Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe, 140. Herausgegeben von Jorg Frey, Martin Hengel, Otfried Hosius] Edited by D. A. Carson, Peter T. O'Brien, & Mark A. Seifrid. Tubingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck; Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2001. Pp. 619. Paper, $44.99.) . This anthology has a more comprehensive chapter on Philo written by David M. Hay. Readers interested in this topic should consult this contribution too. There are several reviews of this book out on the Internett; you may read one here or here.

Addenda half an hour later...
I just found, to my surprise, that Hendrickson has a sample chapter out of Das' book on Paul, the Law and the Covenant, and this is the chapter that contains the section on Philo! You can access that chapter here. You will find the section on Philo on pp. 23-27. Great! Tolle lege! :-)