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The bottleneck is always going to be that legislators need to be able to understand and modify the law. Although arguably stating law in natural language might
by contravariant 5y ago
The bottleneck is always going to be that legislators need to be able to understand and modify the law.
Although arguably stating law in natural language might not help much with that either.
- jacques_chester 5y agoLegislators are not the sole source of law in common law countries. There is also case law. Legislation is typically drafted in a structured way, with deliberate norms and forms. There are professional drafters who do exactly that on behalf of legislators, and a body of case law on the interpretation of legislation that guides their work.