Technology,
Law Practice
Mar. 10, 2021
Straight talk on the law as code
Law as code is bandied around as a crucial determiner of the future for lawyers and the practice of law. Depending upon which interpretation you side with, the law as code suggests that we ought to find a means to convert the laws into programming code. On the surface, this seems easy to do, but the reality is that semantic indeterminism makes this into a seemingly (nearly) unsolvable puzzle.
Lance Eliot
Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.
One of the most popularly repeated and ostensibly overly optimistic statements about the law and computing has got to be the refrain of "law as code" (often heralded in headlines about LegalTech related breakthroughs).
Generally, the notion underlying law as code is that we ought to embody the law into some form of computer program coding and thus we will more readily be able to utilize and leverage the law via digital capabilities.<...
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