Network analysis in law. E-book. Formato PDF - 9788849529470

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