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Policies of Kleros courts
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Referring to Policies #9

Open mrclegal opened 6 years ago

mrclegal commented 6 years ago

We need a system for referring to policies. They have a name and a number the question is whether that is enough.

Referring to the policy by its full name is not practical in my opinion. E.g.: "§ 1 Doge Court Basic Statute". That is just too long.

Referring to it by its number is hard to read. E.g.: "§ 2 Policy 23"

Maybe we could give the policies short names and abbreviations. So "§ 1 Doge Court Basic Statute" would become "§ 1 DCBS".

Another way could be to use a scientific quotation style and refer to the policies in the policy text with [1], [2], ... and then state the full policy name at the bottom of the policy. I am not quite sure yet what we should do.

clesaege commented 6 years ago

I'd go for name + number. The same way we refer to ERC. Like "ERC 792: Arbitration Standard".

mrclegal commented 6 years ago

Isn't that too long for, say, the jurors' justifications? I imagine that they will refer to their subcourt policies quite often and referring to "§ 2 Policy 3: Website Subcourt Basic Statute" in every paragraph could become annoying very soon.

Maybe we can wait for the first decisions to be rendered. Possibly, one juror comes up with a good system.