Lippe, Katz, and Jackson: Legal by Design: A New Paradigm for Handling Complexity in Banking Regulation and Elsewhere in Law

Paul Lippe , Daniel Martin Katz , and Daniel H. Jackson have posted a working paper entitled Legal by Design: A New Paradigm for Handling Complexity in Banking Regulation and Elsewhere in Law , on SSRN .

Here is the abstract:

On August 5, 2014, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation criticized shortcomings in the Resolution Plans of the first Systematically Important Financial Institution (SIFI) filers. […]

The Fed and FDIC identified two common shortcomings across the first 11 SIFI filers: “(i) assumptions that the agencies regard as unrealistic or inadequately supported, such as assumptions about the likely behavior of customers, counterparties, investors, central clearing facilities, and regulators, and (ii) the failure to make, or even to identify, the kinds of changes in firm structure and practices that would be necessary to enhance the prospects for orderly resolution.” We believe this regulatory response highlights, in part, the need for lawyers (and other advisors) to develop approaches that can better manage complexity, encompassing modern notions of design, use of technology, and management of complex systems.

In this paper, we will describe the information mapping aspects of the Resolution Planning challenge as an exemplary “Manhattan Project” of law: a critical enterprise that will require — and trigger — the development of new tools and methods for lawyers to apply in their work handling complex problems without resort to unsustainably swelling workforce, and wasteful diversion of resources. Fortunately, much of this approach has already been developed in innovative Silicon Valley legal departments and has been applied by leading banks. Although much of the focus of the Dodd-Frank Act is on re-organizing and simplifying banks, we will focus here on the information architecture issues which underlie much of what should — and will — change about how law is delivered, not just for Resolution Planning, but more broadly.

Among the topics discussed in the paper are the development of a new type of electronic contract, and the application of IBM Watson to complex legal information.

Filed under: Applications, Articles and papers, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged: Artificial intelligence and law, Banking law information systems, Daniel H. Jackson, Daniel Martin Katz, Digital contracts, Electronic contracts, Financial law information systems, IBM Watson and law, Legal complexity, Paul Lippe



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