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Washington Internet Daily reports on Stanford's Center for Computers and Law (CodeX), which is developing the Intellectual Property Exchange, an "automated online marketplace to license content for use on the Web." Stanford Law School Fellow Harry Surden is quoted:
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Only 10 or 20 percent of U.S. law may be clear enough to be automated, said Genesereth and center fellow Harry Surden. The former Cisco and Bloomberg software engineer and lawyer is headed to a teaching job at the University of Colorado's law school. Still, it's worth mechanizing these "easy cases," Surden said.
As the effort progresses, policymakers could be lobbied to use bright-line rules, like speed limits, in place of vaguer ones, such as general bans on driving "unsafely," Surden said. But that would have tradeoffs in reduced flexibility, he said.