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How to Evaluate Personalized Law
Omri Ben-Shahar
Omri Ben-Shahar is the Leo and Eileen Herzel Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Ariel Porat
Ariel Porat is the Alain Poher Professor of Law and President of Tel-Aviv University.

Personalized law is a new model of rulemaking where each person is subject to different legal rules and bound by their own personally tailored law.

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Tort Liability and the Risk of Discriminatory Government
Ehud Guttel
Bora Laskin Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law
Ariel Porat
President, Tel Aviv University

For their helpful comments, we thank Christopher Kutz, Meirav Furth-Matzkin, Lee Fennell, Daniel Hemel, Saul Levmore, Barak Medina, Jonathan Masur, Mitchell Polinsky, Yuval Procaccia, Weijia Rao, Re’em Segev, Stephen Sugarman, George Triantis, Eyal Zamir, and participants in the Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association and in faculty workshops at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, the University of Haifa, the University of Southern California, Stanford University, and Tel Aviv University. For superb research assistance, we thank Bar Dor and Niva Orion.

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Personalizing Mandatory Rules in Contract Law
Omri Ben-Shahar
Leo and Eileen Herzel Professor of Law, The University of Chicago.

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.

Ariel Porat
Alain Poher Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University and Fischel-Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at The University of Chicago.
Mandatory rules in contract law are meant to protect people from “bad” terms.

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