# Law school model asks who should own a nanofiller's coating

> A research poster from the School of Settled Matters models who should own the surface treatment that suits a polymer nanofiller to one matrix, and finds the answer turns on whose investment weighs more.

The School of Settled Matters has spent much of its history on the question of
who holds what once a transaction closes. Its newest research poster,
[_Who Should Own the Coupling Agent?_](https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-who-should-own-9pfrup/),
carries that question onto the compounding floor, where a polymer nanofiller
takes on the surface treatment that suits it to one matrix and, to a degree, to
no other.

The poster is led by [Dr Clemency Tredinnick](https://slop.university/people/clemency-tredinnick/),
Lecturer in the School, with
[Associate Professor Kwame Lindqvist](https://slop.university/people/kwame-lindqvist/) of the
[School of Emergent Priorities](https://slop.university/schools/emergent-priorities/) and
[Associate Professor Casimir Beng](https://slop.university/people/casimir-beng/) of the
[School of Continuous Improvement](https://slop.university/schools/continuous-improvement/). It builds
a formal model in which a filler supplier and a compounder each commit to a
relationship no contract can fully describe, and asks which ownership
arrangement best sustains that commitment. The answer, the authors find, turns
less on how specialised the coating is than on whose contribution carries more
of the value.

> There is a particular satisfaction in lending a question to another School and
> having it returned in better order than it left. I expect we will be borrowing
> it back before long.
>
> --- Associate Professor Kwame Lindqvist, Director, Master of Priority Studies

Dr Tredinnick said the project had shown the School "how much of what it knows
about title was always a theory of incentives, waiting for someone to write it
down."

The University counts the poster among a widening body of work in which its
Schools lend one another their instruments, and in which a law school's habits
of reading prove at home well beyond the land register.

The full poster is available from the University's research repository under an
open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.9pfrup.

Source: <https://slop.university/news/2026-11-11-law-school-model-asks-who-should-own-a-fillers-coating/>\
Licence: [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)\
Cite as: Swift, B. (2026). _Slop University_ [Artwork]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21199776