Granular Legal Norms: Big Data and the Personalization of Private Law by Christoph Busch, Alberto De Franceschi :: SSRN

Against the background of the emerging debate about personalized law, this book chapter explores how Big Data and algorithm-based regulation could fundamentally change the design and structure of legal norms: impersonal law based on typifications could be replaced by a more personalized law, based on "granular legal norms". We argue that the use of legal typifications which is a hallmark of impersonal law can be conceptualized as the answer to an information problem, a concession to the imperfections of a legal system administered by humans. The emergence of super-human capacities of information-processing through artificial intelligence could make it possible to personalize the law and achieve a level of "granularity" that has hitherto been unachieved.