Publication Type
Report
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
4-2020
Abstract
A guide intended to accelerate sensemaking in discussions involving Rules as Code. Without a common frame of reference, project stakeholders risk talking at cross purposes. Stakeholders contemplating a “digital transformation” project in the legal domain, such as a “Rules as Code” exercise or a RegTech / SupTech proof-of-concept, may find this document useful to agree on a common vocabulary to facilitate discussion and planning. To that end, this document classifies “digital transformation” of legal rules into a hierarchy of levels which can be included as terms of reference in planning discussions. While this document is informed by academic discourse, it is intended for practitioners and foregoes the usual citation / footnote style in favour of direct applicability by legal engineers. In the context of work planning, management can say, “we want to build a Level 3.2 RaC prototype”, and the product engineering team would be able to say, “OK, here is roughly the time, resource, and process required for that.” Scope: The legal rules envisaged by this document include relatively black-and-white legislative acts and secondary regulations. They do not include “fuzzier” rules originating in the judiciary, which are often phrased in the form of legal principles and doctrines. Think “your dwelling can have 2.5 storeys of no more than 8 meters in height each”, not “equity must come with clean hands”.
Keywords
computational law, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, legal formalisation, legaltech
Discipline
Computer Law | Rule of Law | Science and Technology Law
Research Areas
Innovation, Technology and the Law
First Page
1
Last Page
24
Publisher
Singapore Management University Centre for Computational Law
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
WONG, Meng Weng.
Rules as code: Seven levels of digitisation. (2020). 1-24.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3093
Copyright Owner and License
Singapore Management University
Creative Commons License
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