Codelaw (an essay for “Rebooting America”)
Allison Fine invited me to submit essays for the Rebooting America project. This one’s an overview of codelaw: As a lawyer-cum-techie at Massachusetts Law Reform Institute in the mid-2000s, I became aware of computer system called Beacon used by the MA Department of Transitional Assistance (a/k/a “welfare”) to distribute various benefits such as food stamps […]