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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…
Simplify Your Law: Using Information Theory to Deduplicate Legal Documents
Corinna Coupette, Jyotsna Singh, Holger Spamann
Textual redundancy is one of the main challenges to ensuring that legal texts remain comprehensible and maintainable. Drawing inspiration from the refactoring literature in softwar…
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…