Water Law

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Water Slices and Water Lumps
Rhett B. Larson
Rhett B. Larson is the Richard Morrison Professor of Water Law at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

The author would like to thank Lee Anne Fennell, Omri Ben-Shahar, the University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics, and the participants in the Slices and Lumps Symposium at the University of Chicago Law School.

While reading Lee Fennell’s book Slices and Lumps, I was struck that the book could have been written using only examples from water law. Fennell’s framework describes nearly all challenges and aims inherent in water management, and connects these challenges to broader questions in life and law.