Computational Law The Cop in the Backseat (Startup Article)

Computational Law The Cop in the Backseat (Startup Article)


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Computational Law is that branch of legal informatics concerned with the mechanization of legal analysis (whether done by humans or machines). It emphasizes explicit behavioral constraints and eschews implicit rules of conduct. Importantly, there is a commitment to a level of rigor in specifying laws that is sufficient to support entirely mechanical processing. While the idea of mechanized legal analysis is not new, its prospects are better than ever due to recent technological developments - including progress in Computational Logic, the growth of the Internet, and the proliferation of autonomous systems (such as self-driving cars and robots). Legal technology based on Computational Law has the potential to dramatically change the legal profession, improving the quality and efficiency of legal services and possibly disrupting the way law firms do business. More broadly, the technology has the potential to bring legal understanding and legal tools to everyone in society, not just legal professionals, thus enhancing access to justice
and improving the legal system as a whole.

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