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Working on the five-year research programme in computational law are (from left) Professor Goh Yihan, dean of Singapore Management University School of Law; Ms Alexis Chun and Mr Wong Meng Weng, co-founders of local legal tech start-up Legalese; and Assistant Professor Lau Kwan Ho and Assistant Professor Lim How Khang from SMU School of Law.
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Singapore is to undertake a first-of-its-kind research on creating a working programming language for the country's laws and contracts.
This language will be the foundation for specially trained computer programmers to create digital contracts and other legal documents.

