Why is there no such thing as mathematical jurisprudence?
You might expect there to be something like An Axiomatic Approach to Law or An Axiomatic Approach to a Legal System, but even a Google search turns up nothing.
An Axiomatic Approach to Legal System
No luck at all. Mathematical economics yields a hit immediately. Does this academic field not exist?
It seems to me that most laws and regulations could be derived from a very small number of axioms and assumptions.
A1. Inviolability of another person’s body
A2. Inviolability of another person’s will
A3. Inviolability of another person’s property
Could laws not be deductively derived from these and a few conditions?
Start with as few assumptions as possible and try to derive various laws and judicial precedents. Then, when a result does not correspond to actual laws or precedents, examine whether those laws or precedents are valid. If they are, change the axioms or assumptions and try again. I think it might be useful to repeat a cycle like that, but I wonder what others think.
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