Join us for the #RulesAsCode Community of Practice Roundtable Meeting on March 19, 2025 from 1-2pm ET.
📜 AI for SNAP & Medicaid RaC translation
💞 Insights from the community
🔮 Discussion on the year ahead
Please join RaC CoP to receive the invite!
beeckcenter.org/raccop
📜 AI for SNAP & Medicaid RaC translation
💞 Insights from the community
🔮 Discussion on the year ahead
Please join RaC CoP to receive the invite!
beeckcenter.org/raccop
February 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Join us for the #RulesAsCode Community of Practice Roundtable Meeting on March 19, 2025 from 1-2pm ET.
📜 AI for SNAP & Medicaid RaC translation
💞 Insights from the community
🔮 Discussion on the year ahead
Please join RaC CoP to receive the invite!
beeckcenter.org/raccop
📜 AI for SNAP & Medicaid RaC translation
💞 Insights from the community
🔮 Discussion on the year ahead
Please join RaC CoP to receive the invite!
beeckcenter.org/raccop
As of tonight, v2.0.0 of Blawx is feature and content complete.
Just QA and bug testing left before it can go live.
Looking forward to switching from making it exist to making it better. Has been years, at this point
#RulesAsCode
Just QA and bug testing left before it can go live.
Looking forward to switching from making it exist to making it better. Has been years, at this point
#RulesAsCode
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
As of tonight, v2.0.0 of Blawx is feature and content complete.
Just QA and bug testing left before it can go live.
Looking forward to switching from making it exist to making it better. Has been years, at this point
#RulesAsCode
Just QA and bug testing left before it can go live.
Looking forward to switching from making it exist to making it better. Has been years, at this point
#RulesAsCode
Can coding the law make justice more accessible? ⚖️💻
In our new podcast episode, 🇨🇦 lawyer & developer Martin Perron explains how Rules as Code can speed up access to justice & democratize legal knowledge.
🎧 Listen here 👉 shows.acast.com/6666be8ab6f3...
#AccessToJustice #LegalTech #RulesAsCode
In our new podcast episode, 🇨🇦 lawyer & developer Martin Perron explains how Rules as Code can speed up access to justice & democratize legal knowledge.
🎧 Listen here 👉 shows.acast.com/6666be8ab6f3...
#AccessToJustice #LegalTech #RulesAsCode
Just Access
Your Gateway to Global Human Rights Conversations
shows.acast.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Can coding the law make justice more accessible? ⚖️💻
In our new podcast episode, 🇨🇦 lawyer & developer Martin Perron explains how Rules as Code can speed up access to justice & democratize legal knowledge.
🎧 Listen here 👉 shows.acast.com/6666be8ab6f3...
#AccessToJustice #LegalTech #RulesAsCode
In our new podcast episode, 🇨🇦 lawyer & developer Martin Perron explains how Rules as Code can speed up access to justice & democratize legal knowledge.
🎧 Listen here 👉 shows.acast.com/6666be8ab6f3...
#AccessToJustice #LegalTech #RulesAsCode
Other talks by-
✅Andy Neale “Open Legislative Data Services”, from NZ Parliamentary Counsel's Office
✅Sarah Sutherland, with interesting take on limits of #RulesAsCode
✅AustLII on their experiments in using RAG on their huge body of legal data
✅Lexum & CanLII, incl on AI-assisted search on CanLII
✅Andy Neale “Open Legislative Data Services”, from NZ Parliamentary Counsel's Office
✅Sarah Sutherland, with interesting take on limits of #RulesAsCode
✅AustLII on their experiments in using RAG on their huge body of legal data
✅Lexum & CanLII, incl on AI-assisted search on CanLII
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Other talks by-
✅Andy Neale “Open Legislative Data Services”, from NZ Parliamentary Counsel's Office
✅Sarah Sutherland, with interesting take on limits of #RulesAsCode
✅AustLII on their experiments in using RAG on their huge body of legal data
✅Lexum & CanLII, incl on AI-assisted search on CanLII
✅Andy Neale “Open Legislative Data Services”, from NZ Parliamentary Counsel's Office
✅Sarah Sutherland, with interesting take on limits of #RulesAsCode
✅AustLII on their experiments in using RAG on their huge body of legal data
✅Lexum & CanLII, incl on AI-assisted search on CanLII
#RulesAsCode
You can use an LLM to express an answer, but not to generate one. Public sector ADS needs transparency, authority, and causal explainations linked to the rules applied.
Prediction is not causal, so LLMs will never get there.
Rules as Code can do it.
You can use an LLM to express an answer, but not to generate one. Public sector ADS needs transparency, authority, and causal explainations linked to the rules applied.
Prediction is not causal, so LLMs will never get there.
Rules as Code can do it.
March 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM
#RulesAsCode
You can use an LLM to express an answer, but not to generate one. Public sector ADS needs transparency, authority, and causal explainations linked to the rules applied.
Prediction is not causal, so LLMs will never get there.
Rules as Code can do it.
You can use an LLM to express an answer, but not to generate one. Public sector ADS needs transparency, authority, and causal explainations linked to the rules applied.
Prediction is not causal, so LLMs will never get there.
Rules as Code can do it.
Want a job doing #RukesAsCode?
December 11, 2024 at 8:09 PM
The last day of ICAIL had a lot of papers directly relevant to #RulesAsCode, and at least three papers about getting LLMs to do the encoding.
A lot of unanswered questions, still, but it seems like some of the design choices I made about Blawx v2 to help codegen were well founded.
A lot of unanswered questions, still, but it seems like some of the design choices I made about Blawx v2 to help codegen were well founded.
June 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The last day of ICAIL had a lot of papers directly relevant to #RulesAsCode, and at least three papers about getting LLMs to do the encoding.
A lot of unanswered questions, still, but it seems like some of the design choices I made about Blawx v2 to help codegen were well founded.
A lot of unanswered questions, still, but it seems like some of the design choices I made about Blawx v2 to help codegen were well founded.
If you are interested in the latest re §Blawx v2, check out this video I submitted as part of the G7 GovAI Grand Challenge today. The demo shows the version on which I'm currently doing QA.
youtu.be/2cnSEnwI9Nc?...
#LegalTech #RulesAsCode #GovTech #RegTech #ComputationalLaw #LawSky
youtu.be/2cnSEnwI9Nc?...
#LegalTech #RulesAsCode #GovTech #RegTech #ComputationalLaw #LawSky
G7 GovAI Grand Challenge Submission
YouTube video by LEXpedite
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
If you are interested in the latest re §Blawx v2, check out this video I submitted as part of the G7 GovAI Grand Challenge today. The demo shows the version on which I'm currently doing QA.
youtu.be/2cnSEnwI9Nc?...
#LegalTech #RulesAsCode #GovTech #RegTech #ComputationalLaw #LawSky
youtu.be/2cnSEnwI9Nc?...
#LegalTech #RulesAsCode #GovTech #RegTech #ComputationalLaw #LawSky
For those interested in #rulesascode, consider joining racguild.org. Check out what it's about at www.racguild.org/charter
Rules as Code (RaC) Guild | RaC Guild
racguild.org
November 28, 2024 at 6:50 AM
For those interested in #rulesascode, consider joining racguild.org. Check out what it's about at www.racguild.org/charter
Here is the recording of the last Rac Guild Townhall from Feb 5 showcasing DocRef youtu.be/gG6ARhgx7L8. This is a project by Tom Barraclough (@tombcgh.bsky.social ) & Hamish Fraser (@verbman.bsky.social) from Syncopate Lab, aimed at building Digital Legal Infrastructure. #rulesascode
RaC Guild Townhall (Jan 2025) - Building Digital Legal Infrastructure w/ DocRef Demo & Discussion
YouTube video by RaC Guild
youtu.be
March 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Here is the recording of the last Rac Guild Townhall from Feb 5 showcasing DocRef youtu.be/gG6ARhgx7L8. This is a project by Tom Barraclough (@tombcgh.bsky.social ) & Hamish Fraser (@verbman.bsky.social) from Syncopate Lab, aimed at building Digital Legal Infrastructure. #rulesascode
Join the Association official Launch Event to meet other members from around the world, hear about the state of OpenFisca across countries and discover how you can benefit from the rising global interest in #RulesAsCode!
Register on opencollective.com/openfisca/ev...
Register on opencollective.com/openfisca/ev...
March 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Join the Association official Launch Event to meet other members from around the world, hear about the state of OpenFisca across countries and discover how you can benefit from the rising global interest in #RulesAsCode!
Register on opencollective.com/openfisca/ev...
Register on opencollective.com/openfisca/ev...
"...when standardisation moves from “standardise what already exists” to “standardise things that we think would be good but don’t yet exist” it enters dangerous territory."
#RulesAsCode
tratt.net/laurie/blog/...
#RulesAsCode
tratt.net/laurie/blog/...
Laurence Tratt: UML: My Part in its Downfall
tratt.net
February 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"...when standardisation moves from “standardise what already exists” to “standardise things that we think would be good but don’t yet exist” it enters dangerous territory."
#RulesAsCode
tratt.net/laurie/blog/...
#RulesAsCode
tratt.net/laurie/blog/...
Is #rulesascode the answer or a recipe for disaster? Phillipa Martin's #RaCGuild presentation uncovers the use cases that either thrive or dive with RaC. The presentation draws oj her experience working with #OpenFisca & Drupal on 12 govt PoCs over the past 12 months
March 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Is #rulesascode the answer or a recipe for disaster? Phillipa Martin's #RaCGuild presentation uncovers the use cases that either thrive or dive with RaC. The presentation draws oj her experience working with #OpenFisca & Drupal on 12 govt PoCs over the past 12 months
I'm very curious to know what they mean when they say they have "coded the logic" of the employment laws. Is this an example of #RulesAsCode where the encoding is executable? What reasoning is possible over this logic?
Anyone know?
Anyone know?
November 26, 2024 at 6:41 AM
I'm very curious to know what they mean when they say they have "coded the logic" of the employment laws. Is this an example of #RulesAsCode where the encoding is executable? What reasoning is possible over this logic?
Anyone know?
Anyone know?
L4 has been a topic of conversation in #RulesAsCode for more than 5 years, but now it can become an object of study, and that's an important step forward.
We can finally see if this architecture, a functional programming style DSL for law & contracts built in Haskell, is justified, or not.
We can finally see if this architecture, a functional programming style DSL for law & contracts built in Haskell, is justified, or not.
August 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
L4 has been a topic of conversation in #RulesAsCode for more than 5 years, but now it can become an object of study, and that's an important step forward.
We can finally see if this architecture, a functional programming style DSL for law & contracts built in Haskell, is justified, or not.
We can finally see if this architecture, a functional programming style DSL for law & contracts built in Haskell, is justified, or not.
Thank you Jason Morris (@lexpedite.bsky.social) for generously sharing your insights on different ways of categorising #rulesascode languages, covering the computational paradigm, target markets, features and licensing at our last RaC Guild townhall. Find it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC65...
RaC Guild Townhall (Nov 2024) - Benefitme.nz project and presentation & Rules as Code tools
YouTube video by RaC Guild
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2024 at 6:56 AM
Thank you Jason Morris (@lexpedite.bsky.social) for generously sharing your insights on different ways of categorising #rulesascode languages, covering the computational paradigm, target markets, features and licensing at our last RaC Guild townhall. Find it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC65...
President Biden ordered the US federal government to start a #RulesAsCode pilot project for cybersecurity laws and regulations.
I am beginning to think 2025 may be a tipping point for RaC.
#legaltech
I am beginning to think 2025 may be a tipping point for RaC.
#legaltech
January 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
President Biden ordered the US federal government to start a #RulesAsCode pilot project for cybersecurity laws and regulations.
I am beginning to think 2025 may be a tipping point for RaC.
#legaltech
I am beginning to think 2025 may be a tipping point for RaC.
#legaltech
If the only long term benefit is that a handful of people become as insistent about lowering the threshold of entry for #RulesAsCode as I have been for the last 8 years, that would be a huge win.
And if not, I had fun. And that's not nothing.
4/
And if not, I had fun. And that's not nothing.
4/
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If the only long term benefit is that a handful of people become as insistent about lowering the threshold of entry for #RulesAsCode as I have been for the last 8 years, that would be a huge win.
And if not, I had fun. And that's not nothing.
4/
And if not, I had fun. And that's not nothing.
4/
As of Sunday I'm headed to 🇦🇺, Adelaide and Melbourne, meeting with #LegalTech and #RulesAsCode colleagues in both cities.
If you're in the neighborhood, let me know.
And if you have recommendations for ice cream in either city or places between, I need 'em.
Up the Crows.
If you're in the neighborhood, let me know.
And if you have recommendations for ice cream in either city or places between, I need 'em.
Up the Crows.
March 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
As of Sunday I'm headed to 🇦🇺, Adelaide and Melbourne, meeting with #LegalTech and #RulesAsCode colleagues in both cities.
If you're in the neighborhood, let me know.
And if you have recommendations for ice cream in either city or places between, I need 'em.
Up the Crows.
If you're in the neighborhood, let me know.
And if you have recommendations for ice cream in either city or places between, I need 'em.
Up the Crows.
www.think7.org/publications... Happy to have contributed to this forward-thinking policy encouraging the G7 to follow Canada's lead in experimenting with #RulesAsCode. Thanks very much to the T7 organizers and my co-authors!
Rules as Code for a More Transparent and Efficient Global Economy
www.think7.org
April 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
www.think7.org/publications... Happy to have contributed to this forward-thinking policy encouraging the G7 to follow Canada's lead in experimenting with #RulesAsCode. Thanks very much to the T7 organizers and my co-authors!
After 4 months, I finally have a functioning reasoner and answer display in Blawx v2. A couple of bugs in the answer formatting, still, but I'm optimistic I can move on to other things next weekend. #RulesAsCode #LegalTech
November 17, 2024 at 5:58 PM
After 4 months, I finally have a functioning reasoner and answer display in Blawx v2. A couple of bugs in the answer formatting, still, but I'm optimistic I can move on to other things next weekend. #RulesAsCode #LegalTech
Glad to see my article on #RulesAsCode is now published: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 15, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Glad to see my article on #RulesAsCode is now published: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It is a myth that you can't encode vague terms.
You can't (easily) compute them, and that is a real but different problem. Not every use case requires computing.
With the right tooling, uncertain inputs can generate conditional answers.
Code can say "it depends" too. 😅
#RulesAsCode
You can't (easily) compute them, and that is a real but different problem. Not every use case requires computing.
With the right tooling, uncertain inputs can generate conditional answers.
Code can say "it depends" too. 😅
#RulesAsCode
December 7, 2024 at 3:05 PM
It is a myth that you can't encode vague terms.
You can't (easily) compute them, and that is a real but different problem. Not every use case requires computing.
With the right tooling, uncertain inputs can generate conditional answers.
Code can say "it depends" too. 😅
#RulesAsCode
You can't (easily) compute them, and that is a real but different problem. Not every use case requires computing.
With the right tooling, uncertain inputs can generate conditional answers.
Code can say "it depends" too. 😅
#RulesAsCode
Here are some results from our work with the L4 team at SMU - getting legislative drafters to produce basic visualisations by showing how to make propositional logic versions of their drafts
#RulesAsCode
#RulesAsCode
We've made a demo video of how legislative drafters can produce simple if-then versions of drafts, for automatic conversion to L4. Legalese's visualiser (jl4.legalese.com) automatically turns the L4 into an interactive map of the logical structure of the draft provision. See youtu.be/_VZ4_FY_Nqo
Logic maps for legislative drafters, CRLP2025
YouTube video by Jersey LDO
youtu.be
August 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Here are some results from our work with the L4 team at SMU - getting legislative drafters to produce basic visualisations by showing how to make propositional logic versions of their drafts
#RulesAsCode
#RulesAsCode
Me and @tombcgh.bsky.social have a paper published on the home page of law.mit.edu - it's about governance of #RulesAsCode and AI systems and if that's of interest to you then *hat tip* why hello fellow nerd XD
MIT Computational Law Report
law.mit.edu
October 29, 2024 at 6:33 AM
Me and @tombcgh.bsky.social have a paper published on the home page of law.mit.edu - it's about governance of #RulesAsCode and AI systems and if that's of interest to you then *hat tip* why hello fellow nerd XD