4 papers
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…
Sensitivity of collective outcomes identifies pivotal components
Edward D. Lee, Daniel M. Katz, Michael J. Bommarito +1
A social system is susceptible to perturbation when its collective properties depend sensitively on a few pivotal components. Using the information geometry of minimal models from…
LexNLP: Natural language processing and information extraction for legal and regulatory texts
Michael J Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz, Eric M Detterman
LexNLP is an open source Python package focused on natural language processing and machine learning for legal and regulatory text. The package includes functionality to (i) segment…
Crowdsourcing accurately and robustly predicts Supreme Court decisions
Daniel Martin Katz, Michael James Bommarito, Josh Blackman
Scholars have increasingly investigated "crowdsourcing" as an alternative to expert-based judgment or purely data-driven approaches to predicting the future. Under certain conditio…