THOUGHTS

From Code to Legislation · Part 3 of 3

A technical design for transforming legislative Markdown into a structured, versionable representation: contextual lexing, an Abstract Law Tree, projection to Akoma Ntoso, and consolidation operations.

From Code to Legislation · Part 2 of 3

The parser could already build an Abstract Law Tree. The real challenge came next: partial amendments, identity, temporality, and consolidation. Research changed once the problem found its vocabulary.

From Code to Legislation · Part 1 of 3

A compiler course and a small Spanish-language educational programming language seemed unrelated to law. Years later, they provided the mental model needed to start interpreting legislation.