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Ask HN: Online Contract Law?
1 point by bertm on June 8, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Is there a way to make contract law more straight forward? Something like computer code with explicit syntax.

And the natural segue would be, could one imagine a way to enforce these contracts online outside of any given court system? Perhaps a social contract abstraction on top of a given judicial jurisdiction.

I can't imagine this is a new idea.




Explore the field of computational legal studies, especially the research coming out U. of Michigan from Dean Katz.


Great! Thanks. It looks like his name may in fact be Daniel Katz. Is that the same guy?


Yes, I misremembered, it's been a couple of years since I met him. Here's his blog, though you've probably found it already: http://computationallegalstudies.com/




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