Lawrence Lessig is rightly seen as one of the intellectual parents of much of the governance of information discourse. His "law is code" argument is both powerfully simple, and naturally persuasive. The theory on which it rests is built in significant part on a belief in a certain ind of market, and a certain kind of transparency.
This research questions some of Lessig's underlying assumptions - and suggests that this may have consequences for the breadth and generality of his "law is code" concept; the research as published in the 2008 Wisconsin Law Review.
