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most citedComplex Societies and the Growth of the Law

48 citations

researchers with a paper here

Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.

collaborating institutions

4 papers

physics.soc-ph2024★ 6 cited

CompLex: legal systems through the lens of complexity science

Pierpaolo Vivo, Daniel M. Katz, J. B. Ruhl

While "complexity science" has achieved significant successes in several interdisciplinary fields such as economics and biology, it is only a very recent observation that legal sys…

cs.IR2021★ 1 cited

Law Smells: Defining and Detecting Problematic Patterns in Legal Drafting

Corinna Coupette, Dirk Hartung, Janis Beckedorf +2

Building on the computer science concept of code smells, we initiate the study of law smells, i.e., patterns in legal texts that pose threats to the comprehensibility and maintaina…

cs.SI2021★ 33 cited

Measuring Law Over Time: A Network Analytical Framework with an Application to Statutes and Regulations in the United States and Germany

Corinna Coupette, Janis Beckedorf, Dirk Hartung +2

How do complex social systems evolve in the modern world? This question lies at the heart of social physics, and network analysis has proven critical in providing answers to it. In…

cs.SI2020★ 48 cited

Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law

Daniel Martin Katz, Corinna Coupette, Janis Beckedorf +1

While a large number of informal factors influence how people interact, modern societies rely upon law as a primary mechanism to formally control human behaviour. How legal rules i…