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Pattern Recognition in Tyus v Urban Search Management
Lee Anne Fennell
Max Pam Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School.

I thank the Harold J. Green Faculty Fund and the SNR Denton Fund for research support and Christopher Fennell, Lior Strahilevitz, and Ryan Walsh for helpful comments and insights.

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Go Configure
Lee Anne Fennell
Lee Anne Fennell is the Max Pam Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School.

Research support from the Harold J. Green Faculty Fund and the SNR Denton Fund is gratefully acknowledged.

In Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life, I argue that the future depends on configuration. Putting together resources and cooperation in the right combinations is essential to human flourishing in multiple domains: the environment, the city, the workplace, the market, and the home.

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Inversion Aversion
Lee Anne Fennell
Max Pam Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School. I am grateful for research support from the Harold J. Green Faculty Fund and the SNR Denton Fund.

For conversations about this Essay, we thank Anupam Chander, Victor Fleischer, Jerry Frug, Calvin Johnson, Michael Knoll, Steven Medema, Richard Schragger,Sloan Speck, Andrew Verstein, and participants in the Harvard Law School conference Celebrating Jerry Frug’s Work on Cities. We also thank Reeves Jordan for excellent research assistance. An earlier, longer draft of this Essay circulated under the title Inverted Theoriesand remains available on Chicago Unbound at http://perma.cc/XB7Q-TXYE.

Richard H. McAdams
Deputy Dean and Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School.

Some objects, like Weebles and lawn darts, resist inversion. The same is true of certain popular legal theories—or so we argue.

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Lee Anne Fennell
Max Pam Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School. I am grateful for research support from the Harold J. Green Faculty Fund and the SNR Denton Fund.
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Personalizing Precommitment
Lee Anne Fennell
Max Pam Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School.

I thank Ellen Aprill, Adam Hirsch, and participants in The University of Chicago Law Review Symposium on Personalized Law and in the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association for helpful comments and questions. Research support from the Harold J. Green Faculty Fund and the SNR Denton Fund is also gratefully acknowledged. Some of the analysis contained here will appear in Lee Anne Fennell, Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life (Chicago, forthcoming 2019).

Many people experience self-control problems in domains from saving money to losing weight.

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Controlling Residential Stakes
Lee Anne Fennell
Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School
Julie A. Roin
Seymour Logan Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School

We thank Amnon Lehavi, Lior Strahilevitz, participants in The University of Chicago Law School’s Symposium, Reassessing the State and Local Government Toolkit, and participants in the 2009 Property Works in Progress conference held at the University of Colorado School of Law for helpful comments and questions on this project. Prisca Kim and Eric Singer provided excellent research assistance.

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