The maxim of the Book
Where there is a machine there is order; and order is not law.
JUS.automica: A Jurisprudence of the Intelligent Order, by Khurram Chughtai. One book, in twenty-eight chapters, on how law remains law when intelligent systems take part in legal authority.
I · The thesis
A machine will produce regularity, but regularity acquires the character of law through authority, interpretation, reasons, responsibility, evidence and remedy, and not otherwise. Legality must therefore remain answerable along the whole chain.
II · The Book · 28 chapters · 252 main sections
From the Intelligent Legal Condition, through the genealogy of law and code, authority and rights, to the definition of the subject and its foundational canons. Choose a chapter.
III · The doctrines · 21
Twenty-one named doctrines, each stated in the chapter that develops it. Choose one on the line of chapters or from the list.
Chapters 1 to 28
Doctrine 1 of 21
Law operates through interconnected legal, institutional, informational and computational systems.
Developed in chapter 1
Law in the Intelligent Legal Condition
Where does legal authority reside when institutions act through interconnected data, code and models?
The chapterA proposed formulation, offered for examination; not an enacted rule.
IV · The foundational canons · 15 in five clusters
Chapter 28 gathers the argument into fifteen canons in five connected clusters.
Canon I
Law Precedes Code
Canon II
Translation Is an Exercise of Authority
Canon III
Authority Must Remain Traceable
Canon IV
Code Is Not Truth
Canon V
Legal Reasons Must Survive Automation
Canon VIII
Uncertainty Must Be Disclosed
Canon VI
Rights Travel Through the System
Canon VII
Human Responsibility Cannot Be Automated Away
Canon IX
Equality Requires More Than Uniform Processing
Canon X
Consequential Automated Action Requires Effective Redress
Canon XI
Sovereignty Requires Operational Control
Canon XII
Efficiency Is Subordinate to Legality
Canon XIII
Some Judgments Must Remain Human
Canon XIV
Intelligent Systems Must Remain Correctable
Canon XV
JUS.automica Serves Human and Constitutional Order
Law may act through intelligent systems, but it must not disappear into them.
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