Future Law

Future law is law - but not as you know it Jim. It is a pragmatic system, or Legal Hack that we are able to compose partly out of code, and partly out of real-world legal elements.

This thought should be qualified in the recognition that future law is something we can create and use today. We refer to the future in part to distinguish it from law, but also because we see this form growing and shaping the future. We see it as important.

# Future law in education

There is a recent movement in law schools that is beginning to introduce interdisciplinary discussions around law and technology that is promising.

https://www.listennotes.com/e/p/83b972f3ddb94ffba15a5901a0bd308a#t=19:44,20:59 Dan Linna, discusses Teaching Spaces related to future law on the Future Law Podcast - listen

# Johann Gevers

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# Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks (1997)

Our institutions still take for granted that we live in a world of paper. We formalize our relationships with written contracts, written laws, and forms designed for paper.
Smart contracts reduce mental and computational transaction costs imposed by either principals, third parties, or their tools. The contractual phases of search, negotiation, commitment, performance, and adjudication constitute the realm of smart contracts.

- Smart Contracts in Future Law - Future Law - Next Slide Distributed Contracts - Other Resources on Future Law - Distributed Contracts - Legal Markdown

We expect law and legal practices to change over time. I don't intend to be technologically deterministic. I do perceive these potential and actual transformation as systematic, affecting all expressions of a relationship between individuals, legal entities and a state in all it's complexity....

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Liquid Law is a Domain Specific Legal Language, that enables the easy and flexible creation of the Terms of Reference of a legally defined entity to participate in the political process.

Clive Anderson ask how our legal system will cope in a fast-approaching world of autonomous cars, care-bots and other machines using artificial intelligence to make judgments normally made by humans. - bbc

Probably most well known work on the future of legal services is Richard Susskind "End of Lawyers?" Point of departure is that costs versus efficiency of legal services are too high and should be reduced. His aim is to deconstruct the idea of legal services in the context of digital age. The way he does that is by splitting complex legal services into smaller parts, which, he claims allows more efficient outsourcing.

Ksenya's notes:

Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals. The defining characteristic of “common law” is that it arises as precedent. In cases where the parties disagree on what the law is, a common law court looks to past precedential decisions of relevant courts, and synthesizes the principles of those past cases as applicable to the current facts. If a similar dispute has been resolved in the past, the court is usually bound to follow the reasoning

Since 'political economy' became a subject in the 18th century, the predominant political dichotomy has been framed as labour versus capital. Marx talked about 'control of the means of production' as the essential political power that the workers needed to wrest from the capitalists. A great deal of activism and political theory continues in that vein: Gar Alpowitz work What then must we do? is all about rebuilding worker-owned coops and similar institutions. We have 150 years of history testifying to their effectiveness.

# Constitution of the Iroquois Nations

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Here we describe the Life-like Pattern / Story - calling for governance structures to 'feel like life'.

The nature of holistic organisation, courtesy of my friend, Claudius van Wyk :

In 1522, rats were cited before the court of Autun. They were accused of the offense of eating and wantonly destroying crops in the court district.

According to ChatGPT we can define law as:

Performative code, is code that embodies motivated purpose. It is not your regular code, but rather an expression of what we can call Law.

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- Background

Daniel W. Linna Jr. has a joint appointment at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and McCormick School of Engineering as the Director of Law and Technology Initiatives and a Senior Lecturer. Dan is also an affiliated faculty member at CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. Previously, Dan was an equity partner in the litigation department at Honigman. Dan joined Honigman after clerking for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James L. Ryan. Before law school, he was an information technology manager, developer, and consultant. Dan is a co-founder and

Line between notions of code and law is blurry in many ways, just look at the Definitions. Code is Law exprssion was cointed by Lawrence Lessig. This is keynote briefly covering law and tools, mainly areas of document automation and distributed consensus systems.

The New State (1918) by Mary Parker Follett

There are many facilitation processes practised in the world today aimed at capturing and channelling diverse collective intelligence for realising faster better progress and greater collective benefit.