Welcome to the
Computer-Readable Legislation Project (CRLP)

At the States of Jersey’s Legislative Drafting Office (LDO) we have a 2.5-year Computer-Readable Legislation Project running to the middle of 2025 (part of the global “Rules as Code” initiative).

For more, see About the project, Our work, and the Team. We also have a Substack blog.

Our big news is that we have secured funding from the Jersey Legal Information Board to work till June 2025 with the Centre for Computational Law at Singapore Management University on several ideas to see what their L4 DSL (a “domain specific language” or DSL for law) can do with our project.

For our presentation to the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel 2024 conference in Jamaica, download the CRLP slides from our OSF site, and the logic papers from the logic folder in our “parsing exercises” stream on OSF.

A diagram showing the if-this-then-that structure of a piece of legislation If-this-then structure of a provision

A highlighted offence provision showing its component parts Tagged components of an offence provision