Zvenyach: The New Codification Movement

V. David Zvenyach gave a presentation entitled The New Codification Movement , 11 September 2014 for the MIT Legal Physics Research Team, led by Dazza Greenwood .

Here are selected notes about the presentation, from the hackpad for the event, written by Dazza and William P. Li :

Codification: put all the laws in one place [...]

within the next two years, “the new codification movement” — laws will be codified in digital format

What is required? Three Stages:

1. UELMA (Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act)

• Authentication: Provenance, ensuring that the document is authentic/has not been tampered with


• Preserved: documents need to be kept/preserved (need a solution for primary legal materials)


• Accessible: no arbitrary walls between public and the law

2. Law as Data

• Data Model: what happens when a law is amended, then the original law is repealed?


• Data Presentation: how should data be made available? bulk downloads, APIs, viewing in different formats

3. Legal Data Science

Once you have the law in a machine-readable form, what can you do with it?

• Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Law [...]


• Version Control [...]


• Reality Mining [...]


• Algorithmic Law [...]

Call to Action:

• DC, NY, Chicago, Boston, others — “open democracy platform” for laws to be published in an open format (http://ift.tt/1kzsLxq) (and http://ift.tt/1sz0oEw)


• Boston/Cambridge — to make codes available online: See: http://ift.tt/X5KNQH

[...]

For more details, please see the complete presentation.

HT @Colarusso

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