Today I released §Blawx, a hybrid AI web app for #RulesAsCode. Try it for free at app.blawx.dev. #LegalTech
December 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Today I released §Blawx, a hybrid AI web app for #RulesAsCode. Try it for free at app.blawx.dev. #LegalTech
...ist langwierig. Mit #LawAsCode oder #RulesAsCode können Gesetze und Vorschriften in eine maschinenlesbare Form gebracht werden, die von Computern verarbeitet werden kann.
💡 Einwohner:innen können bspw. einfach herausfinden, inwiefern sie anspruchsberechtigt sind für staatliche Leistungen...
💡 Einwohner:innen können bspw. einfach herausfinden, inwiefern sie anspruchsberechtigt sind für staatliche Leistungen...
December 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
...ist langwierig. Mit #LawAsCode oder #RulesAsCode können Gesetze und Vorschriften in eine maschinenlesbare Form gebracht werden, die von Computern verarbeitet werden kann.
💡 Einwohner:innen können bspw. einfach herausfinden, inwiefern sie anspruchsberechtigt sind für staatliche Leistungen...
💡 Einwohner:innen können bspw. einfach herausfinden, inwiefern sie anspruchsberechtigt sind für staatliche Leistungen...
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.
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And if not, I had fun. And that's not nothing.
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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/
Whoops... I changed the link for the new §Blawx v2 video, and forgot to tell #Lawsky #Law #LegalTech #RulesAsCode #RegTech #GovTech. Sorry, my bad.
youtu.be/LZQUprbbmUU?...
youtu.be/LZQUprbbmUU?...
G7 GovAI Grand Challenge Submission v2
YouTube video by LEXpedite
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Whoops... I changed the link for the new §Blawx v2 video, and forgot to tell #Lawsky #Law #LegalTech #RulesAsCode #RegTech #GovTech. Sorry, my bad.
youtu.be/LZQUprbbmUU?...
youtu.be/LZQUprbbmUU?...
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
A variety of people with a variety of use-cases who self-identity as motivated to explore the future of #RulesAsCode and legal knowledge representation and automation, interested in giving feedback, willing to learn an innovative new tool while it is still being built...
That would be awesome. 2/
That would be awesome. 2/
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
A variety of people with a variety of use-cases who self-identity as motivated to explore the future of #RulesAsCode and legal knowledge representation and automation, interested in giving feedback, willing to learn an innovative new tool while it is still being built...
That would be awesome. 2/
That would be awesome. 2/
Blawx v2 has reached the testing stage.
Unless testing reveals large issues, it looks like it will be live by the end of the year.
#LegalTech #RulesAsCode #Bootstrap #Solo #WhoNeedsVC #HashTagBrag
Unless testing reveals large issues, it looks like it will be live by the end of the year.
#LegalTech #RulesAsCode #Bootstrap #Solo #WhoNeedsVC #HashTagBrag
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Blawx v2 has reached the testing stage.
Unless testing reveals large issues, it looks like it will be live by the end of the year.
#LegalTech #RulesAsCode #Bootstrap #Solo #WhoNeedsVC #HashTagBrag
Unless testing reveals large issues, it looks like it will be live by the end of the year.
#LegalTech #RulesAsCode #Bootstrap #Solo #WhoNeedsVC #HashTagBrag
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
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
Getting very close to a Blawx v2 release candidate. Maybe next week. Then it's time for some intensive QA and debugging. Depending on how testing goes, v2 should be live by the end of the year. #RulesAsCode.
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Getting very close to a Blawx v2 release candidate. Maybe next week. Then it's time for some intensive QA and debugging. Depending on how testing goes, v2 should be live by the end of the year. #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
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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
So for you, an undertaking that improves drafting at all, and does nothing else, is mission accomplished. For me, choosing to do that instead of something that would improve drafting more, and would also have those other benefits of #RulesAsCode, even if it is harder, is a wasted opportunity.
August 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
So for you, an undertaking that improves drafting at all, and does nothing else, is mission accomplished. For me, choosing to do that instead of something that would improve drafting more, and would also have those other benefits of #RulesAsCode, even if it is harder, is a wasted opportunity.
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.
That said, I am very curious what features the full L4 language has, and very encouraged that after five years there is finally an easy way to try it! That's a huge step forward.
People interested in #RulesAsCode should give it a spin and share their reactions. I certainly will.
People interested in #RulesAsCode should give it a spin and share their reactions. I certainly will.
August 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
That said, I am very curious what features the full L4 language has, and very encouraged that after five years there is finally an easy way to try it! That's a huge step forward.
People interested in #RulesAsCode should give it a spin and share their reactions. I certainly will.
People interested in #RulesAsCode should give it a spin and share their reactions. I certainly will.
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
Trying to imagine how this might work for #RulesAsCode. Gamified tutorials, maybe? Has that been tried?
July 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Trying to imagine how this might work for #RulesAsCode. Gamified tutorials, maybe? Has that been tried?
You can now watch in replay the official launch event of the OpenFisca Association and discover the path for further adoption of #RulesAsCode, the governance of transformative #DigitalCommons and the state of OpenFisca adoption around the world.
videos.lescommuns.org/w/3w9FrFgKFE...
videos.lescommuns.org/w/3w9FrFgKFE...
OpenFisca Association Official Launch Event
Members joined the official launch event of the Association on the 19th of March in Paris. With interventions in person but also live from Oslo, Canberra and Wellington, discover the path for further ...
videos.lescommuns.org
July 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
You can now watch in replay the official launch event of the OpenFisca Association and discover the path for further adoption of #RulesAsCode, the governance of transformative #DigitalCommons and the state of OpenFisca adoption around the world.
videos.lescommuns.org/w/3w9FrFgKFE...
videos.lescommuns.org/w/3w9FrFgKFE...
A subset of the 🇺🇸 tax system as of 2024 is available as declarative XML as part of the IRS opening the source code of DirectFile (an app enabling filing tax returns online, stopped by the Trump administration).
github.com/IRS-Public/d...
#RulesAsCode
github.com/IRS-Public/d...
#RulesAsCode
July 7, 2025 at 5:50 AM
A subset of the 🇺🇸 tax system as of 2024 is available as declarative XML as part of the IRS opening the source code of DirectFile (an app enabling filing tax returns online, stopped by the Trump administration).
github.com/IRS-Public/d...
#RulesAsCode
github.com/IRS-Public/d...
#RulesAsCode
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.
On the #RulesAsCode front, I did a test today comparing GPT-4.1 to o1 and o3, and the difference in what GPT 4.1 can do generating symbolic representations of legal text is pretty remarkable.
The threshold of what is possible and cost effective in neuro-symbolic AI has pretty clearly shifted again.
The threshold of what is possible and cost effective in neuro-symbolic AI has pretty clearly shifted again.
April 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
On the #RulesAsCode front, I did a test today comparing GPT-4.1 to o1 and o3, and the difference in what GPT 4.1 can do generating symbolic representations of legal text is pretty remarkable.
The threshold of what is possible and cost effective in neuro-symbolic AI has pretty clearly shifted again.
The threshold of what is possible and cost effective in neuro-symbolic AI has pretty clearly shifted again.
Could we test laws like software before they affect millions? In my article on "PolOps," I explore applying DevOps principles to policy-making. Imagine catching unintended consequences *before* laws go live.
Read more: medium.com/p/2fba8bbdb378
#PolOps #LegalTech #AI #Law #RulesAsCode #OpenFisca
Read more: medium.com/p/2fba8bbdb378
#PolOps #LegalTech #AI #Law #RulesAsCode #OpenFisca
What if we could test laws like we test software, before they affect millions of lives?
Imagine a world where policies are tested against thousands of scenarios before implementation, where regulations update themselves based…
medium.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Could we test laws like software before they affect millions? In my article on "PolOps," I explore applying DevOps principles to policy-making. Imagine catching unintended consequences *before* laws go live.
Read more: medium.com/p/2fba8bbdb378
#PolOps #LegalTech #AI #Law #RulesAsCode #OpenFisca
Read more: medium.com/p/2fba8bbdb378
#PolOps #LegalTech #AI #Law #RulesAsCode #OpenFisca
Could we test laws like software before they affect millions? In my article on "PolOps," I explore applying DevOps principles to policy-making. Imagine catching unintended consequences *before* laws go live.
Read more: medium.com/p/2fba8bbdb378
#PolOps #LegalTech #AI #Law #RulesAsCode
Read more: medium.com/p/2fba8bbdb378
#PolOps #LegalTech #AI #Law #RulesAsCode
What if we could test laws like we test software, before they affect millions of lives?
Imagine a world where policies are tested against thousands of scenarios before implementation, where regulations update themselves based…
medium.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Could we test laws like software before they affect millions? In my article on "PolOps," I explore applying DevOps principles to policy-making. Imagine catching unintended consequences *before* laws go live.
Read more: medium.com/p/2fba8bbdb378
#PolOps #LegalTech #AI #Law #RulesAsCode
Read more: medium.com/p/2fba8bbdb378
#PolOps #LegalTech #AI #Law #RulesAsCode
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!
In these #RulesAsCode recommendations for the #G7, we promote #OpenSource, #BetterRules (RaC from the drafting phase), suggest to start with social benefits assessment for high impact.
www.think7.org/publications...
Thanks again to Jess Rapson for all the writing & coordination work as lead author!
www.think7.org/publications...
Thanks again to Jess Rapson for all the writing & coordination work as lead author!
Rules as Code for a More Transparent and Efficient Global Economy
Rules as Code (RaC) is the process of encoding legislation into machine-executable formats to enhance public service delivery by improving non-expert access to complex laws, automating the downstream…
www.think7.org
April 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
In these #RulesAsCode recommendations for the #G7, we promote #OpenSource, #BetterRules (RaC from the drafting phase), suggest to start with social benefits assessment for high impact.
www.think7.org/publications...
Thanks again to Jess Rapson for all the writing & coordination work as lead author!
www.think7.org/publications...
Thanks again to Jess Rapson for all the writing & coordination work as lead author!
✨New research✨
beeckcenter.org/AI_RaC_social
Can #AI be used to expedite the translation of #SNAP and #Medicaid policies into software code for implementation in public benefits eligibility and enrollment systems under a #RulesasCode approach?
We share methodologies, materials, findings & ideas.
beeckcenter.org/AI_RaC_social
Can #AI be used to expedite the translation of #SNAP and #Medicaid policies into software code for implementation in public benefits eligibility and enrollment systems under a #RulesasCode approach?
We share methodologies, materials, findings & ideas.
March 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
✨New research✨
beeckcenter.org/AI_RaC_social
Can #AI be used to expedite the translation of #SNAP and #Medicaid policies into software code for implementation in public benefits eligibility and enrollment systems under a #RulesasCode approach?
We share methodologies, materials, findings & ideas.
beeckcenter.org/AI_RaC_social
Can #AI be used to expedite the translation of #SNAP and #Medicaid policies into software code for implementation in public benefits eligibility and enrollment systems under a #RulesasCode approach?
We share methodologies, materials, findings & ideas.