Personalized Law: Different Rules for Different People

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Omri Ben-Shahar (Leo Herzel Professor of Law, Leo Herzel Professor of Law, University of Chicago) Ariel Porat (Alain Poher Professor of Law & President, Alain Poher Professor of Law & President, Tel Aviv University)

Personalized Law

Different Rules for Different People

Omri Ben-Shahar (Leo Herzel Professor of Law, Leo Herzel Professor of Law, University of Chicago), Ariel Porat (Alain Poher Professor of Law & President, Alain Poher Professor of Law & President, Tel Aviv University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
07 September 2021

Interdisciplinary studies; Systems of law; Law & society; Courts & procedure

We live in a world of one-size-fits-all law. People are different, but the laws that govern them are uniform.

By: Omri Ben-Shahar (Leo Herzel Professor of Law Leo Herzel Professor of Law University of Chicago), Ariel Porat (Alain Poher Professor of Law & President, Alain Poher Professor of Law & President, Tel Aviv University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 160mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780197522813
ISBN 10: 0197522815
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 07 September 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface CHAPTER 1: Introduction PART I: INTRODUCING PERSONALIZED LAW CHAPTER 2: What is Personalized Law -- Contextualization: The Old Precision Law -- Personalization: The New Precision Law -- Personalized Rules Everywhere -- Self Personalization -- Personalization & the Objectives of the Law -- Conclusion CHAPTER 3: The Precision Benefit -- Personalized Everything -- The Benefits of Personalization -- The Benefits of Personalized Law -- The Production Cost of Precision -- Conclusion PART II: PERSONALIZED LAW IN ACTION CHAPTER 4: Personalized Legal Areas -- Tort Law ' Unequal Impact CHAPTER 8: Personalized Law & Equal Protection -- The Constitutionality of Statistics -- Individualized Treatment -- Narrowly Tailored -- The Arguments for Differential Treatment -- Disparate Impact PART IV: IMPLEMENTATION OF PERSONALIZED LAW CHAPTER 9: Coordination -- Coordination of Group Activity -- Coordination of Individual Acts -- Coordination & Information -- Coordination as Participation CHAPTER 10: Manipulation -- Distorted Investment in Human Capital -- Pretending -- Arbitrage -- Ways to Restrain Manipulation ---- Immutable Characteristics ---- Hypothetical Characteristics ---- The Numerosity of Characteristics & Commands ---- Preventing Arbitrage CHAPTER 11: Governing Through Data -- Information is Required for Lawmaking -- Where Will the Information Come From? -- Obeying Personalized Commands -- Privacy & Data Protection ---- People>'s Interest in Privacy ---- Society>'s Interest in Data Protection CHAPTER 12: Legal Robotics -- Law & Artificial Intelligence -- The Human Design -- Tomorrow Morning

Omri Ben-Shahar is the Leo and Eileen Herzel Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, and the Kearny Director of the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics. He writes and teaches in the areas of contract law, consumer law, insurance law, trademark law, food law, and law-and-economics. Ben-Shahar is the co-author of More Than You Wanted To Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure (with Carl Schneider, Princeton Press 2014). Ben-Shahar is currently serving as a Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts. Ariel Porat is the Alain Poher Professor of Law, and the President of Tel Aviv University. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and the EMET Prize Laureate (2014). He teaches and writes in the areas of tort law, contract law, and remedies. Porat is the co-author of Getting Incentives Right - Improving Torts, Contracts, and Restitution (with Robert Cooter, Princeton Press, 2014) and Tort Liability under Uncertainty (with Alex Stein, Oxford University Press, 2001). In the years 2003-19, Porat was a Fischel-Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He was also a visiting professor at the universities of Columbia, Stanford, NYU, Berkeley, Virginia, and Toronto.

Reviews for Personalized Law: Different Rules for Different People

The authors offer a highly readable, carefully argued case for a most provocative thesis. Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. General readers. * J. A. Gauthier, CHOICE *