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Ieshia Townsend was scared to return home after her job at a South Side McDonald’s, she said at a rally for frontline workers in downtown Chicago: she could infect her children with coronavirus.
When British authorities dragged Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London in April 2019, the Australian-born founder of the whistleblowing platform, WikiLeaks, was no stranger to displacement.
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.
Personalized law is on-trend.
The potential of adjusting legal rules to personal characteristics is obvious: while the reason of law coincides with the purposes of its norms, the fulfillment of these very purposes depends, in many ways, on personal characteristics of the individuals to which legal provisions relate.
In Personalized Law: Different Rules for Different People, Professors Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat imagine a brave new tort world wherein the ubiquitous reasonable person standard is replaced by myriad personalized “reasonable you” commands.
Negligence law seldom accounts for a person’s idiosyncrasies.
Professors Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat paint a fascinating picture of a potentially very different legal future in Personalized Law: Different Rules for Different People.
Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat wrote an exciting and provocative book that manages to stir your imagination and occupy your thoughts long after you’re done reading it.
Less obviously, though, the book is not mostly about technology.
In Personalized Law: Different Rules for Different People, Professors Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat defend the desirability and justice of personalized law.