There's an idea of "legalism" where the letter of the law become more important then the spirit of the law, and you shift to rule by lawyers and judges. Once you start having written laws that stem from liberalism you end up with this as a function of time, as case law itself has a used by date as more and more "laws" pile up. The answer is to return to a more "unfair" law system that relies on the spirit of the law. "What would a citizen in good standing do and be expected to do" as the test for whether something is a crime for example.

It's an idea you're going to have to start thinking more and more about because the system of "take dispute to people to argue over the arcane complexities over the meaning of individual words to decide the outcome" may as well be witch craft to the average person.