Network Analysis in Law #57096

In the past decade the concept of network has acquired a growingly
relevant role in the way we conceptualize, study and measure
the world. The computational study of networks in all its declensions
has been entering in a variety of fields including social sciences.
This volume brings together researchers from computational social
science, law and computational legal theory, network science
and related disciplines to discuss the actual and potential applications
of network analysis in the legal domain. Law is made by people,
about and for people and institutions. These people or institutions
can be seen as networks, moreover law itself forms networks, sources
of law refer to other sources of law and together constitute (part of)
the core of the legal system. All these phenomena can be detected,
mapped and analysed in order to get deeper insights about their
structure, their function and their evolution. The nine contributions
collected in the volume deal with these topics offering an up to date
overview of the most relevant research strands in this field.
Publications in the «Law Science Technology» series will deal, from one
point of view, with looking more closely at and revisiting classical topics
of Legal Informatics, and from another, at innovative topics arising out of
the dialogue between legal science and a range of research areas ranging
from cognitive sciences to complexity science, from computer science to
computational social science and biological sciences.
Radboud Winkels is associate professor in Computational Legal Theory at the Leibniz
Center for Law of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Nicola Lettieri is researcher at ISFOL (Rome) and adjunct professor of Legal Informatics
at the University of Sannio and of Computational social sciences at the Department of
Computer science of the University of Salerno, Italy.
Sebastiano Faro is senior resercher at the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques
of the National Research Council of Italy (Florence).