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Legal codification by software methods
It is common to insist that software code and legal code are fundamentally different. It is true that interests systematically oppose in legal text, while many aspects of software do not involve opposing interests. But this difference is of degree and not fundamentally an obstacle. In both cases, texts readable by humans with special training, are used to manage something. In both cases, it is better to start with a text that has a history of success and a community of users. In the case of law, there is an additional reason, of great importance. The text does not run "deterministically" on a machine, it "runs" in the minds of people, and the people whose minds count most are strangers to the transaction - judges, litigators, management, insurers, creditors. Legal text runs socially.