Personalized Law: Different Rules for Different People

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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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But What Is Personalized Law?
Sandra G. Mayson
Sandra G. Mayson is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law.

She thanks Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat for including her in a fantastic conference and symposium issue; Maron Deering, Kim Ferzan, Mitch Berman, and Fred Schauer for very helpful input; and the staff of the University of Chicago Law Review for their excellent editorial assistance.

Personalized law is on-trend.

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Personalized Law: Distinctions and Procedural Observations
Hans Christoph Grigoleit
Hans Christoph Grigoleit is a Professor at the University of Munich, where he holds a Chair for Private Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Law and Theory of Private Law. Grigoleit obtained his doctorate and his habilitation at the University of Munich. In his Ph.D. thesis, he dealt with “Pre-Contractual Information Liability”, while his habilitation study concerned “Shareholder Liability”. After a call to the University of Regensburg, he returned to the University of Munich.

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.

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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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