To New York City Council member Benjamin J. Kallos, the threat of laws being furtively crafted by specific interests and closed groups stems from one existential core problem: no one outside of legal actually reads the law.
While judges regularly call out the legislature to clarify or fix laws in their case law decisions, “there is no elected official—including me, and I want to—who has the resources to read through those judicial decisions where judges are crying for help,” he told the audience at the “Hacking Your City” session of the 2016 Legal Hackers International Summit.
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