Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Public administrations are steadily digitalizing all their procedures. In particular, computational laws – such as taxes and benefits – are increasingly implemented within computers, enabling scalable, automated computations. These computer implementations have four key specificities: they are critical software at the intersection between law and computer science that will be updated regularly by legal changes and have a long lifespan counted in decades. Thus, great care should be taken to avoid any issue in these specific legal implementations. Building upon years of studying and coding computational laws, both in administrations and as new research products, we propose 20 recommendations to ease the development and maintenance of legal implementations. These recommendations aim at being understandable for lawyers and computer scientists alike.
Authors: Raphaël Monat, Liane Huttner
Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, Université de Lille, Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille, SYCOMORES: Analyse symbolique et conception orientée composants pour des systèmes embarqués temps-réel modulaires, Centrale Lille Institut, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4415109305
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