Personalized Law: Different Rules for Different People

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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.”