The Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School hosted a symposium in November 2019 on Professor Lee Fennell’s new book, Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life. That conference expanded on the book’s theme by exploring the relevance of configuration in many areas of law. This symposium collection showcases the fourteen papers presented at that conference, along with an introduction by Professor Fennell:
Go Configure
Lee Anne Fennell
The Smooth Value of Lumpy Goods
Matthew D. Adler
Slicing Defamation by Contract
Yonathan Arbel
Indivisibility in Technology Regulation
Lauren Henry Scholz
Getting People to Lump or Split Themselves: Pooling vs Separation
Peter Siegelman
Paying with Lumps
Brian Galle
Lumpy Work
Deepa Das Acevedo
Water Slices and Water Lumps
Rhett B. Larson
Ownership Work and Work Ownership
Hiba Hafiz
Lumps in Antitrust Law
Sean P. Sullivan
Agency Lumping and Splitting
Jennifer Nou
From Slices to Lumps and Back Again: Aggregation and Division in U.S. Federal Income Tax Law
Sarah B. Lawsky
Co-Location Covenants
Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
Lumping, Fairness, and Single People
Michael C. Pollack
Slicing (and Transferring) Development
John Infranca