What makes these poor naive souls think that the law wants to be transformed into code?

Millions of bureaucrats, both large and petty, derive their power from the complexity, ambiguity, and room for arbitrary, capricious enforcement of the existing legal code. Dislodging them would probably require mass bloodshed on the scale of the French Revolution.

And treating the presently existing legal system as a logical program can lead to disaster. See "What Color are your Bits?" (http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php)