Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal?

gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• dgdft@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’re not wrong that most statutory legislation is freely and readily available, but determining if an act is illegal in a practical sense requires looking at case law too.

  Depending on what domain we’re talking about, technical legislation often references paywalled documents too. E.g., I work in biomed R&D, and the FDA regulations for medical devices are often tied to pay-to-play ISO standards.

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  • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    yeah nothing should be paywalled and westlaw/lexis/bloomberg/all of them should be a public service in fact

    This is actually something I think ai will basically solve. Well, not the law as a public service part but the general access to reliable legal information part. I’ve seen the westlaw and lexis lawyer bots and they’re pretty good, a non lawyer could easily rely on it because lawyers already do.

    I can’t imagine it takes more than 5 years before we see tailored compliance bots in various fields. AI mediated society is already here

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes, they're there. Good luck finding what you want to find.

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  • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    lawyers use Google before anything else. If you’re wondering if what you’re doing is illegal you probably can just look it up and find a decent enough answer

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• SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  ‘Don’t Talk to the Police’ has a good section about that. Not only there are ten thousand laws, but US laws incorporate foreign laws by reference.

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