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This case raises some difficult theoretical questions about what harms insider trading laws are supposed to prevent and what benefits they are supposed to provide to the marketplace.
The area of law colloquially known as compassionate release—which allows prisoners to seek sentence reductions or early release from incarceration under limited circumstances—garnered heightened attention at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As Professor Eric A.
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.