Very encouraging to see "Public sector automated decision-making" will be one of new projects at Law Commission (E&W) lawcom.gov.uk/news/law-com... We published Margaux McQuilton's pre-print report on ADM osf.io/a7jwc We see logic-driven systems taking human decision-makers to the right questions

We've made a demo video of how legislative drafters can produce simple if-then versions of drafts, for automatic conversion to L4. Legalese's visualiser (jl4.legalese.com) automatically turns the L4 into an interactive map of the logical structure of the draft provision. See youtu.be/_VZ4_FY_Nqo

Setting off to London tomorrow for the Statute Law Society's conference on the Renton report's 50th anniversary - www.statutelawsociety.co.uk/conference Meanwhile here is our note on Renton's specially prescient comment about computing (before PCs, WWW, AI) open.substack.com/pub/digitall...

This is a really good interview with the fabulous Matt Lynch on Lawmaker - start with imagination not code, he says. modparl.substack.com/p/lawmaker

A teatime treat for you guys. Yet more weeknotes from @anyaso.bsky.social and I: ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/m... All the latest news from the cutting edge of the procedural pedantic web. But don't let that put you off. If you think they're a hard read, try writing the blasted things

AustLII will host the 2025 Law Via Internet Conference lvi2025.org & meeting of the Free Access to Law Movement falm.info. Call for Papers: lvi2025.org/callforpapers/ Registration: secure.austlii.edu.au/cgi-egate/re.... We look forward to welcoming you to Sydney.

This just finished - it was a very good introduction to the many different projects using OpenFisca all across the globe. The Association sounds very well thought out too - taking care to preserve the open source approach.

Aujourd’hui : lancement officiel de l’association @openfisca.bsky.social au Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères, dans la salle où sont nées l’UIT et l’Union européenne.

🔸Demos of logic maps & other visualisations - work with SMU Centre for Digital Law 🔸Unique IDs for legislation paras (h/t Hamish Fraser) in Word & web, for pop-ups linking words to definitions (incl in Interpretation Law) 🔸Using "may", "may not" & "may only" #RulesAsCode substack.com/@digitallegi...

We're working with SMU Centre for Digital Law on using their L4 to code legislation in a way that is human-readable & gives visualisations. For demos & info so far see- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtq_... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq6m... osf.io/jauqb More later at crlp-jerseyldo.github.io/work/an-ide-...

Interested in formalising/digitising logical structures in legislation (& other law)? Here's a gold-mine - collected abstracts of Guido Governatori's work 1995-2024 - defeasible deontic logic - explainable AI in law - Prolog & other logic-driven computer systems… www.governatori.net/papers/2024/...

New blog on use & coding of "may". Lessons from formal logic & computing - * improving legislative drafters' use of "may", * & making logical structure of “may” computer-readable. Thanks to Keshav Soni & team at Law School Policy Review, Bengaluru, India lawschoolpolicyreview.com/2025/02/05/i...

Data is never ‘collected’, it is only *generated*. This isn’t merely a pedantic semantic gripe; by misrepresenting ‘data’ as something that exists in nature & has only to be scooped up, evasion of accountability for data harms has already begun Data doesn’t exist until someone constructs it

Our kanban practice suffered a slight wobble and our flow went out the window. On the bright side, two lots of notes in two days is quite the treat. More jottings from @anyaso.bsky.social and I, packed with things Young @robert-brook.com is unlikely to ever say ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/m...

Two 2024 articles on #RulesAsCode- Translating Law & Code in Government: Algorithmic Decisions & Their Legal Effects in Canada - Zajko journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... RaC & rule of law: ensuring effective judicial review of administration by software - Kennedy scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=b...

Thank you Jason Morris (@lexpedite.bsky.social) for generously sharing your insights on different ways of categorising #rulesascode languages, covering the computational paradigm, target markets, features and licensing at our last RaC Guild townhall. Find it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC65...

This Rules as Code Guild is an excellent way of keeping up with what is happening in this corner of computational law. There are videos of previous presentations to catch up with.

AustLII do all the usual LII (Legal Information Institute) things, but they also produced DataLex datalex.org with its yScript language & yLegis preprocessor austlii.community/wiki/DataLex . If you haven't yet tried their example apps, do give them a go datalex.org/app/?rulebas...

User guide with key linking, tagging, collaboration, versioning and annotation features here: docref.org/docref/userg...

The Policy2Code Demo Day at #BenCon2024 showcased 12 teams presenting experiments using generative AI to transform benefits policies into assistive chatbots, eligibility screeners, standardized logic and code & more! digitalgovernmenthub.org/publications... #RulesAsCode #govtech #civictech #AI

#RulesAsCode starter pack, reply if you're doing this and not on it! bsky.app/starter-pack...

"From pen to algorithm: optimizing legislation for the future with artificial intelligence" link.springer.com/article/10.1... - very pleased to see this published open access. Looks at using AI to back up logic-driven systems like DataLex, Blawx, OpenFisca and L4, to limit scope for hallucination.

Our big news - we've secured funding from Jersey Legal Information Board to work till June 2025 with Centre for Computational Law in Singapore Management University cclaw.smu.edu.sg/projects-pap... to see what their L4 (“domain specific language” for law) github.com/smucclaw can do with our project

After 4 months, I finally have a functioning reasoner and answer display in Blawx v2. A couple of bugs in the answer formatting, still, but I'm optimistic I can move on to other things next weekend. #RulesAsCode #LegalTech

Me and @tombcgh.bsky.social have a paper published on the home page of law.mit.edu - it's about governance of #RulesAsCode and AI systems and if that's of interest to you then *hat tip* why hello fellow nerd XD

We’re running a webinar next week to talk about the future we see for digital regulatory infrastructure, incl our tools and approaches for #rulesascode. We’ll also be touching on recent publications from the NZ Ministry for Regulation and PCO on publishing + stewardship. Join us! lu.ma/65rdychb

Our project has launched an interactive mock-up of a legislative drafting tool we would like to see, to make it easier to write & read Commonwealth legislation. Please try interacting with the demo & let me know what you think - open.substack.com/pub/digitall...

Hello BlueSky - now that there are plenty of lawyers (including plenty not from USA) and legal tech folk here, we will be using this account instead of our old one on X. We offer a legislative drafting take on "Rules as Code" crlp-jerseyldo.github.io digitallegislation.substack.com