Symposium on Personalized Law

With the rise of big data, the costs associated with creating and administering personalized legal rules tailored to specific individuals or circumstances have decreased significantly. Rules that currently apply uniformly—property rights; standards of care; default and mandatory rules in contract law; disclosure mandates; sentencing rules; tax laws; and legal procedures—now face the possibility of becoming personalized.  The Symposium on Personalized Law will feature diverse expert viewpoints on the value, feasibility, and implementation of personalization in various legal areas. Panelists will discuss whether a personalized system is moral or democratic, how such a system could be implemented, and the benefits and drawbacks of shifting from uniform to personalized law. Others will explore how the increased granularity of legal norms would affect the legal system as a whole, whether personalization will make the legal system more efficient, fair, or equal, or instead serve to undermine the legitimacy of the legal system and infringe on individual privacy.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, April 27

INTRODUCTION
8:30 – 9:15 a.m.

Welcome Remarks
Dean Thomas J. Miles;  Jordan Golds, Editor-in-Chief, and Elizabeth Nielson, Symposium and Reviews Editor, University of Chicago Law Review

Introductory Lecture: A Framework for the New Personalization of Law
Anthony Casey and Anthony Niblett

PANEL I: PERSONALIZED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
Chair: Daniel Hemel
9:15 – 10:45 a.m.

Toward the Personalization of Copyright Law
Gideon Parchomovsky and Adi Libson

Algorithmic Fair Use
Dan Burk

COFFEE BREAK
10:45 a.m.

PANEL II: PERSONALIZED CONTRACT LAW
Chair: Geneviève Helleringer
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  

Personalized Mandatory Rules in Contract Law
Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat

Implementing Personalization: Personalized Disclosures in Consumer and Data Privacy Law
Christoph Busch

LUNCH
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.

PANEL III: CHALLENGES TO PERSONALIZED LAW
Chair: Florence G'Sell
1:45 – 3:15 p.m.

Governance by Data: Personalized Law and Data Capitalism
Niva Elkin-Koren and Michal Gal

Big Data, Personalization, and Discrimination
Talia Gillis and Jann Spiess

COFFEE BREAK
3:15 p.m.

PANEL IV: PRODUCING PERSONALIZED LAW
Chair: Mathilde Hallé   
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Personalizing Precommitment
Lee Fennell

Privatizing Personalized Law
Andrew Verstein

DINNER
6:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 28
Panel V: PERSONALIZED TRANSACTIONS
Chair: Mateusz Grochowski
8:45 – 10:15 a.m.

Down by Algorithms? The Dark Side of Personalized Transactions: Siphoning Rents, Exploiting Biases, and Shaping Preferences
Horst Eidenmüller and Gerhard Wagner

Algorithmic Price Discrimination
Oren Bar-Gill

PANEL VI: PERSONALIZED CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Chair: Filippo Lancieri
10:15 – 11:45  a.m.

Should Criminal Procedure Be Personalized?
Matthew Kugler and Lior Strahilevitz

Neuroscience and the Personalization of Criminal Law
Deborah Denno

SPEAKERS

PANEL CHAIRS

Sponsored by: The University of Chicago Law Review and The Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics

Organized by: Omri Ben-Shahar, Anthony Casey, Ariel Porat, Lior Strahilevitz, and The University of Chicago Law Review

This event is free and open to the public, but seating may be subject to registration. REGISTER

Please direct any inquiries to Elizabeth Nielson, Symposium & Reviews Editor (enielson@uchicago.edu) and Professor Omri Ben-Shahar, Director, Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics (omri@uchicago.edu).