How Do Laws Achieve Computability:An Analysis of Computational Law from the Perspectives of Methodology and Epistemology
The fusion of computer technology and laws has facilitated the emergence of computational law . Computational law emphasizes encoding laws through computer technology and using computer code to repre-sent, apply, interpret, and even enforce laws. To develop computational law further, a fundamental theoretical question, i.e."how do laws achieve computability", must be answered in academic research. It is found from the research that from the perspectives of methodology and of epistemology, there are five ways to achieve the goal of computability:the intellectualization of legal information retrieval, the dynamic regularization of legal compli-ance standards, the datafication of legal scholarship, the codification of legal regulatory tools, and the identifi-ability of legal cognition. Furthermore, by distilling representative schools and design concepts behind these ways, it is possible to theoretically answer and demonstrate the question"how do laws achieve computability". This flourishing landscape of"one flower, five leaves"greatly expands the domain and frontier of computational law, and lays the preliminary groundwork for the conceptual extension of computational law in theory. To perfect the theoretical system of computational law, it is also necessary to construct conceptual connotations on the ba-sis of ontology. The sublimation from methodology and epistemology to ontology is an inevitable path for compu-tational law to mature and become an independent discipline.
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