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I’ve always wondered if contracts themselves couldn’t be expressed in a parsable domain-specific language.

IANAL, but it seems to me that source code and contracts/legislation/policies are similar in many ways: logic, rules, special words with reserved meaning.

The right DSL might go a long way to automating the boring stuff out of law, and serve to highlight the contentious stuff for human judgement.

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Spoken language is as close as we currently get to expressing our thoughts in a standardized way.

It’s not a great standard, lots of variation and duplication, and above all undefined. But it’s what we have.

Agreements are but one use case of spoken language. Therefore you’re looking at reinventing language itself.

Not a bad idea at all. I do think we eventually get there. But it may take years and may need more advanced technology like AI. Until then spoken language it is.

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