Our Story

Addison Cameron-Huff, a global leader in blockchain law and an award-winning developer, and Dr. Nachshon (Sean) Goltz, a professor in law and technology - were the perfect combination for starting a ground-breaking search engine. The two decided to tackle a fundamental problem based on Dr. Goltz’s research: global laws and case studies in regulation are not considered in the regulatory process because they can’t be found. This oversight prevents lesson learning (read more here). They later learned that not only can laws not be found at all, they’re often not available in English, all of which compounds the lesson-learning problem.

It uses machine translation on a vast scale to translate every law to English; hence, creating the first and only global law search engine in English, covering most of the globe.

The system automatically detects penalty clauses and uses machine learning to extract the penalties and convert them to $USD (read more here). Further, the ‘Global complexity’ tool allows to track risk levels by query by creating a global heat map of legal-complexity measured by the length of the law and the number of similar laws in each jurisdiction, with lengthy laws and high number of similar laws indicating high legal complexity and hence, high risk. This is just one of the innovative tools built on top of the Global-Regulation dataset.

Aspiring for global coverage, GovtMonitor, our affiliate site, is offering a search of ‘pre-enactment’ regulatory instruments like Bills, Hansards etc. from selected jurisdictions.

We plan on fulfilling our vision to create the ‘Regulatory Advisor of the Future’ through four pillars of information: (i) legislation; (ii) case studies, (iii) pre-legislation, (iv) regulatory map. We have established pillar (i) and (ii), work on expanding the coverage of (iii) and are in the planning stage for (iv). Along with UI/UX design improvement to enhance the user’s experience, we plan on creating a personal work space for the professional user - a hands-on customized regulatory desktop.