my favorite quote in this space has always been:<p>the prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more profound, are what i mean by the law.
In an entirely different qualitative sense, this post reminded me of the short story by Kafka, <i>Before the Law.</i> I won’t paste the whole thing here, but it’s a really short read:<p><a href="https://homepage.univie.ac.at/st.mueller/kafka_english.html" rel="nofollow">https://homepage.univie.ac.at/st.mueller/kafka_english.html</a>
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Audrey Tang did a lot of things related to this whilst they were Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang</a>
I guess this is not meant as a general introduction, but it would have been useful to acknowledge the differences between different legal systems somewhere at the start?<p>(Even if it's only to argue that they aren't all that different in practice.)
> Parliament cannot restate the entire legal corpus each session.<p>IMHO the biggest mistake. It should be like that.<p>Because right now for mere mortal it's impossible to find out if some law or paragraph is still in effect.
How would it work though?<p>Also, not sure what makes it so impossible (debates on whether a given law is in effect seem pretty rare, though it does exist), but that may depend on where you come from and the applicable legal system.