PROJECT
REFACTORing
Simplifying the US legal Code through computation, not politics.
/ THE problem
The United States Code* is unwieldy.
Since 1926, the US Code and Regulations have increased to over 126,000,000 words –– the law that governs the land is too large to be read in one lifetime.
The Code is outdated, bloated, and in many places, redundant.
*US Code: The official codification of the federal statutes and regulations of the United States (including US Code + US Code of Federal Regulations).
/ THE SOLUTION
Reforming government is a hard political problem, but an easy computational one.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency needs to treat their mission of government efficiency as a mathematical and computational problem, not just a political issue.
The US Code, the official compilation of all federal law, has never been systematically reviewed, with the aim of cleaning up outdated and unnecessarily complex legislation.
Today, we have the technology and the political willpower to make our legislation understandable. With the aid of AI and LLMs, we are able to search through the US Code and compare it with billions of words in court reports. This allows us to flag obsolete sections that can be removed.
This process has been used for decades by software engineers to optimize software more effectively—it is called 'refactoring.'
We are inviting the American public to join in on the refactoring of the US Code.
/ COMPUTATIONAL HOW
The explosion of legal data, coupled with advances in natural language processing (NLP) and large language models, makes this approach feasible for the first time in history. Court transcripts and agency rulings generate billions of words annually. AI can now cross-reference this information to identify statutory obsolete statues for refactoring.
/ GET INVOLVED NOW
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/ AN INVITATION TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
On the 1st of january 2025, Refactoring.org open a GitHub repository to start building the refactoring algorithm. Engineers can save American democracy.
Milestone 1: 01 JANUARY 2025
GitHub launched.
Milestone 2: 20 JanUARY 2025
v1.0 of refactoring code in production.
Recommend course of action presented to DOGE.
/ THE TEAM
ARON D'SOUZA
FOUNDER
Ph.D. in intellectual property law from the University of Melbourne.
Law degree and MA from the University of Oxford.
Former visiting fellow, Fordham Law School.
Leader of Peter Thiel’s litigation against Gawker Media, involving wrestler Hulk Hogan, which resulted in the one of the largest invasion of privacy judgements in history.
Editor of the Journal Jurisprudence for 10+ years.
Founder, Enhanced Games.
Refactoring.org was created by an amazing team including Thomas Rex Dolan, Lucas Doust Alba, Daniel Asiegbunam and Orlando Bell.
/ Join the team
01 JANUARY 2025
GitHub Launch
Members of the media wishing to organise interview with members of the team can email
media@refactoring.org