TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alauzen,Marie
TI  - The computer alteration of law. Sociological perspective on the turn from legal rules into personal rights
PY  - 2024///.
							
N1  - 26
N2  - How to turn from a rule of law, i.e. general and impersonal statement, to the individual application of rights? In current bureaucracies, addressing this question require not only to describe the interpretation performed by street-level bureaucrats, but the translation of the rules to computer programs that automatically carry out acts on a massive scale, such as the calculation of social benefits or taxation. Drawing on a retro-engineering investigation on the program that compute housing benefits in France and interviews, the article highlights the tasks performed in departments and the National Family Allowance Fund: passes and translation of the law. By pointing to a phenomenon of alteration of legal statements towards a technological agencing, it draws the attention to underestimated consequences of choices of interpretation and organization, before calling for new collaborations with computer scientists
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-droit-et-societe-2024-2-page-293?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -