Omri Ben-Shahar
We thank Oren Bar-Gill and participants in The University of Chicago Law Review Symposium on Personalized Law for their comments, and Tal Abuloff and Tom Zur for excellent research assistance.
I am grateful to Russell Korobkin, Saul Levmore, and Eric Posner for helpful comments.
I am grateful to Lee Fennell, Saul Levmore, Ariel Porat, David Schwartz, and participants at two workshops in Chicago for helpful discussions.
For helpful comments and suggestions, we thank Lewis Kornhauser, Richard Revesz, participants in The University of Chicago Law Review’s symposium on “Developing Best Practices for Legal Analysis,” and participants in the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts project.
Introduction
Applying a precedent is the fundamental craft of a common-law judge. Judges do not go back to general principles to derive novel solutions to each case at hand, along with novel justifications and renewed persuasion efforts.
I am grateful to Michael Abramowicz, Oren Bar-Gill, Ryan Bubb, William Hubbard, Adam Levitin, Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz, Barak Richman, Raaj Sah, Sonja Starr, David Weisbach, Lauren Willis, Kathy Zeiler, and workshop participants at Boston University, The University of Chicago, the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Northwestern University, Sciences Po in Paris, and the University of Toronto for commenting on an earlier draft, and to Irit Brodsky and Holly Newell for research assistance.
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