Comment by socialdemocrat
5 years ago
Cool idea but also comes across as an ultra French idea. French court ruling a as far as I understand are very technocratic. You just must paragraphs applied to reach verdict.
At least here in Norway there tends to be a strong emphasis on laws being readable by the common people so regular people better know their rights.
E.g. we read consumer laws in high school and that was easy. Older laws are written in a very lawyer like Danish form. But there is continuous effort to simplify law texts.
While I do have an affinity for rigorous definitions I think this could make the law text less accessible to common people.
Also based upon what I know of the US system, it would not work as t he Us system is strongly based on past rulings rather than paragraphs. That makes a formalized approach much harder.
Hi, Catala author here :) I totally agree that law should be readable and the Norwegian initiative seems great ! However at least in France we're stuck with the law he have and while some are rightfully proposing some simplification (https://www.revolution-fiscale.fr/), we need a good way to apply the current law faithfully not to end up in situations like this one: https://twitter.com/DMerigoux/status/1304367420639973381.