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Block chain, smart contracts, what about the very basics? What about VCS, DRY documents, standard libraries, pop-up annotations and definitions? It seems like law has no interest in introducing standards to improve productivity and usability.

Look halfway down this article on the proposed health care replacement bill for an example of current legislative version control.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-07/the-repub...

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Version control for law drafting and other dev-like tools is something that http://www.openlawlib.org is working on.

I think there is a strong push for standard provisions, definitions, etc. The problem is that while every relationship is similar, there are always enough edge cases that forms are often only good as starting points. W/r/t to building knowledge bases for law firms, parsing existing contracts so that they are searchable and usable as sources of knowledge is a hard problem.

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