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Tailoring ex Machina: Perspectives on Personalized Law
Gregory Klass
Gregory Klass is the Agnes N. Williams Research Professor and Associate Dean for External Programs at Georgetown University Law Center.
Personalized Law: Different Rules for Different People describes a type of law that does not today exist.
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Personalized Damages
Catherine M. Sharkey
Catherine M. Sharkey is the Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy at New York University School of Law.

She thanks Zachary Garrett (NYU School of Law 2023) for providing excellent research assistance.

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.

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Implementing Personalized Negligence Law
Jared I. Mayer
Jared I. Mayer is a law clerk at the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

He thanks Omri Ben-Shahar, Ariel Porat, and the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics for inviting him to make this contribution. He thanks as well the participants in the Personalized Law Conference, the participants in the Junior Scholars Colloquium, and the Canonical Ideas seminar for their helpful feedback on earlier drafts, and gives special thanks to Ryan Sakoda for extremely helpful conversations on the ideas contained within this Essay. Lastly, he thanks the University of Chicago Law Review editorial team for their excellent editorial work. Nothing herein represents the views of the Supreme Court of New Jersey or the New Jersey Judiciary.

Negligence law seldom accounts for a person’s idiosyncrasies.

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Personalized Law, Political Power, and the Dangerous Few
Adam Davidson
Adam Davidson is a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

He thanks Omri Ben-Shahar, Ariel Porat, and the participants in the Personalized Law Symposium for their discussion and suggestions. He also thanks Aneil Kovvali and Elizabeth Reese for their suggestions on an earlier draft and the University of Chicago Law Review Online editors for their work on the piece.

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.

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Personalization and the Constitution
Netta Barak-Corren
Netta Barak-Corren is a professor of law and a member of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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.

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Complex Algorithmic Law
Peter N. Salib
Peter N. Salib is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center and an Associated Faculty Member at the Hobby School of Public Affairs. Before coming to the University of Houston, Peter was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.

Peter would like to thank the other symposium participants for their insightful comments on this Essay. He would also like to thank the editors of the University of Chicago Law Review for their excellent work on the piece.

Less obviously, though, the book is not mostly about technology.

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Two Cheers for Cyborgs
Lauren Henry Scholz
Lauren Henry Scholz is the McConnaughhay and Rissman Professor of Law at Florida State University College of Law.

In Personalized Law: Different Rules for Different People, Professors Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat defend the desirability and justice of personalized law.

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Personalized Enfranchisement
H. Javier Kordi
H. Javier Kordi received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2020. After graduating, he clerked for Judge Diane Wood on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and now clerks for Senior Judge Susan Illston on the Northern District of California. In law school, his writing focused on distributive justice in tort law. His works received recognition as the most creative legal paper during his 2L year and the Ephraim Prize in Law and Economics.

Javier thanks Omri Ben-Shahar for his endless mentorship, Niki Sabetfakhri for her tireless support, and the participants of the University of Chicago Law School’s 2021 Symposium on Personalized Law for their insightful comments and discussions during our time in Hyde Park.

Should people be allowed to vote before the age of eighteen?

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The Ancient Alien: Good Faith as the Facilitator of Personalized Law
Catalina Goanta
Catalina Goanta is the Associate Professor in Private Law and Technology at Utrecht University and the Principal Investigator of HUMANads, a Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council. She also is one of the editors of the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law and the main legal expert for the consortium organizing the activities of the European Commission’s E-Enforcement Academy.

Catalina would like to thank the participants of the book-launching event hosted by the University of Chicago for their valuable comments.

As society becomes more measurable, our reliance on unmeasurable legal rules has been brought into question.

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Moving Toward Personalized Law
Cary Coglianese
Cary Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania.

Part 121 of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations provides rules for operating commercial air transportation services.

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Why Personalized Law?
Horst Eidenmüller
Horst Eidenmüller is a Statutory Professor for Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of St. Hugh’s College, Oxford. He is also a Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

In 1980, the Hofstra Law Review ran a symposium on “Efficiency as a Legal Concern.”

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Race and the History of International Investment Law
Felipe Ford Cole
Felipe Ford Cole is a Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

He thanks Jay Butler, Melissa Murray, Guy Charles, Gina-Gail Fletcher, Craig Konnoth, and The University of Chicago Law Review Online editors for their helpful comments and feedback.

Over the last decade, new contributions to the history of international investment law (IIL) have begun to redefine the field’s origins.