If you squint a bit to round off the details, you might see a legal system as one document after another. From agreements among individuals and businesses to interactions with government agencies and the courts, nearly everything that is legal is done as documents.

Now imagine that instead of documents, the system is dots connected by lines. Dots that represent persons, places, properties, agencies and types of transactions. Lines that represent relationships.

In this ‘graph‘, ideal solutions can be formulated and interfaced to real jurisdictions.  There can be a path from how participants want to think of the transaction to the documents that implement it.  And a path from one real jurisdiction to another.  For contract agreements, this path is not very long.  Legal systems broadly respect and give effect to “the law of the parties.”

By accumulating uses and combining reports from users and public data, it would soon be possible to show best paths and predict outcomes.

This is a natural fit with: