While reading Lee Fennell’s book Slices and Lumps, I was struck that the book could have been written using only examples from water law. Fennell’s framework describes nearly all challenges and aims inherent in water management, and connects these challenges to broader questions in life and law.
One of the many virtues of Lee Fennell’s terrific new book, Slices & Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life, is her insistence that property scholars vigilantly seek out gaps in existing arrangements. Where there’s a gap, there’s an opportunity to unlock suppressed value.
Spend too long within the pages of Lee Fennell’s Slices and Lumps and you begin to see slices and lumps everywhere.
Water is pretty important. There’s a reason why people have been fighting over it for over a thousand years.
