Research output around RegelRecht: the thinking behind publishing machine-executable law, written up for an academic audience.
Position paper • Eelco Hotting and Anne Schuth • 31 August 2026
Government law execution is formalized in software, but that software is not published. This deepens the executive’s structural advantage in the separation of powers: it alone can see how operative law is applied, while Parliament, courts, and citizens cannot verify, review, or predict its application. This paper proposes that law execution be published as machine-executable specifications in a restricted, declarative format designed to be readable by legal professionals.
JURIX 2026 tutorial • Anne Schuth and Eelco Hotting • 8 December 2026
Ninety minutes with the demo in front of a room of researchers in law and computer science. We open Dutch statutes next to their executable specification, turn a threshold and watch who loses an allowance. Being argued with is the point.
An exploration into transparent, executable legislation, and one of the three projects in the starting selection of the Nederlandse Digitale Dienst.
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