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by mengwong 5y ago
https://pythonforlaw.com/2020/09/27/mlang-compiled-python.ht... > As Merigoux explained more fully on his blog, this project became possible because the French government open-sourced the code that they u
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by mengwong 5y ago
Sure, but the intended user for a lot of this stuff isn't the lawyer – it's the end-user who's glad to have an alternative to the lawyer! Like, owning a bicycle means I don't need to call a taxi for some trips. Not all t
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by mengwong 5y ago
Yeah, the more black-and-white domains tend to be financial and commercial – and in those domains, there have been some pretty cool illustrations: http://complaw.stanford.edu/complaw/readings/sla.pdf
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by mengwong 5y ago
In these classic papers, lawyers excitedly discover formal logic. Worth a quick scroll just for the diagrams, which wil make you laugh. https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/4519/ https://repos
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by mengwong 5y ago
One of the most salutary responses to the ambition of bringing "digital transformation" to the legal industry comes from PaulG himself: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1384422654195683328 > In 2008
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by mengwong 5y ago
Thanks Pierre and Paul for the links! For folks who happen to be unreasonably interested in this stuff: there are research engineer positions open at the Centre for Computational Law at Singapore Management University where the bulk of the
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by mengwong 5y ago
Sorry about that! I'm adding a link to the PDF version which I think is tagged for accessibility. So you should be able to click on the image and go to the PDF. Give me a while, though, am fighting with Jekyll.
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by mengwong 6y ago
You're quite right. Garbage in, garbage out. And if the cost of generating garbage goes down, we're going to get a lot more of it! There are definite risks in misinterpretation and complexity and cruft. As Genesereth quoted: The L
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by mengwong 6y ago
Things are happening at the bleeding edge of computational law that move this debate into new territory. (TL;DR: yes, "law is code". And $10M of fresh funding says law should be open-source code, to be precise. Hackers wanted.) Ba
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by mengwong 6y ago
Technology innovation: "Can it be done?" Market innovation: "Should it be done?" Regulatory innovation: "May it be done?"
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by mengwong 10y ago
Maybe. Maybe not. What if the model changes? Today's model of contracting is fire-and-regret: spec out as much as you can of the next five or ten years, and when the world changes, litigate. That's not very agile. Hart and Holstro
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by mengwong 10y ago
Contracts are similar to software in many ways, but a few crucial differences justify a whole new programming language custom-made for the task. Not a markup language: a full-blown strongly typed specification language with first-class func
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by mengwong 11y ago
Nice work! Other projects in this space include http://www.commonaccord.org/ and http://www.contractstandards.com/clause I am tracking instances of this genre at http://www.legalese.io/#pri