> Well, that's incompatible with a common law legal system. Common law literally means that we respect legal traditions that aren't always codified and are instead established by precedent and/or consensus via tradition.
> Engineers want to think about the law the way they think about code - it may not always do what you expect, but Von Neumann architecture means that it's at least consistent.
Well, that’s why Civil Law might be better – and why most Civil Law countries already have fulltext searchable archives of all laws and decisions. (the dejure indexing engine for Germany, for example, is quite awesome).
> Engineers want to think about the law the way they think about code - it may not always do what you expect, but Von Neumann architecture means that it's at least consistent.
Well, that’s why Civil Law might be better – and why most Civil Law countries already have fulltext searchable archives of all laws and decisions. (the dejure indexing engine for Germany, for example, is quite awesome).