Research Project
Constitutional Attribution in the Age of Algorithmic Commerce
“When software replaces operational decision-making, who constitutionally owns those decisions?”
Algorithmic Nexus is an interdisciplinary research project examining how constitutional doctrine should analyze commercial systems in which operational decisions are increasingly performed by software rather than direct human action.
The Question
For much of constitutional doctrine, physical contacts often reflected deliberate human operational choices. Algorithmic fulfillment systems complicate that inference by separating ownership, platform control, computational decision-making, and legal consequence.
The Framework
The Book
Scholar's Review Draft, Version 1.0, June 2026. Circulated for scholarly review and comment.
The manuscript asks how constitutional law should attribute state contacts produced by platform-controlled operational systems. The full abstract and one-page summary are available on the book page.
Current public draft follows a university-press polish pass and preserves source-status caveats for expert review.
Research
Working Papers
Shorter articles will develop the framework for law review and interdisciplinary audiences.
Conference and workshop materials will be posted as they become available.
Project updates and public commentary will be archived on the updates page.