Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Programmers and lawyers do the same thing: we anticipate a range of future scenarios and try to say what is, and is not, supposed to happen in each one. But lawyers program in English. What if CS had been invented before law? What would lawyers be programming in instead?

Wong Meng Weng is co-founder at Legalese.com and is principal researcher at SMU's School of Law where he works on L4, a domain-specific language for law.

Q&A at 37:58

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