Whether an axiomatic approach to law is possible and useful today has to be perceived as unanswered. Perception of the axiomatic method among lawyers, however, is clouded by misunderstanding. Clarifying them may generate new discussion about the axiomatization of legal theories.
There are quite a number of similarities between the moral concept of choice and the mathematical axiom of choice. These similarities shed light on how to adapt law to solve cases that arise with the increasing “autonomy” of robots.