The Hammurabi Project

The Hammurabi Project. It sounds like a seventies sci-fi movie doesn’t it. In essence Stanford university is undertaking an experiment to codify US law.


Simon Fodden at SLAW is going to be much better at explaining whet they are attempting to do than HOB? .. so link through to Simon’s piece at

http://www.slaw.ca/2011/04/18/law-might-be-code/

And here’s the home page for the project itself

Welcome to the home of The Hammurabi Project.

https://github.com/mpoulshock/hammurabi/wiki/the-hammurabi-project/

The Hammurabi Project is an experiment in codifying U.S. law – such as the U.S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, state laws, etc. – in the C# programming language.

It has two basic components:
Core library – functions to support legal knowledge engineering
Parallel legal corpus – a machine executable version of U.S. legal provisions

Other things you may be curious about:
Project rationale
Basic concept

What the law looks like when codified in C#
Scope and granularity of the project
Syntax reference
Installing and using Hammurabi
Buzz
The project is affiliated with Stanford University’s CodeX Center for Computers and Law. For more information, contact Michael Poulshock at michael.poulshock@gmail.com.