![]() ![]() The sequential flexibility of the law, adapting and responding to the society it serves, might therefore reach an inflection point, beyond which it starts to become ‘fixed’: legal outcomes become increasingly predetermined, and the law’s ‘consciousness’, embodied in legal text, becomes ‘simultaneous’, its development increasingly pre-ordained in ways incompatible with a democratic society. If the is of past legal text becomes the ought of future legal text, there is a risk of ignoring relevant authorities or future social changes in a seductively efficient race to the bottom. Addressed to her daughter, the story alternates between recounting the past: the coming of the aliens and the deciphering of their language and remembering the future: what will happen to her unborn daughter as she grows up, and the daughter’s untimely death. Louise Banks the day her daughter is conceived. (If you haven’t seen the film or read the story you might wish to skip to 1:25 to avoid spoilers – but they are both very highly recommended in any case.) Story of Your Life is narrated by linguist Dr. ![]() Taking inspiration from the film Arrival and Ted Chiang’s novella Story of Your Life on which it is based, the talk considers legal prediction and the notion of past language containing, or predetermining, future knowledge. Below is a re-recording of a talk given by Laurence at Gikii 2019 entitled ‘Legal Tech, or Story of Your Life’.
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