Ask HN: Online Contract Law?

1 points by bertm 13y ago ↗ HN

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.

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anigbrowl 13y ago ↗

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

bertm 13y ago ↗

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

anigbrowl 13y ago ↗

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/