Network analysis in the legal domain: a complex model for European Union legal sources
Network analysis in the legal domain: a complex model for European Union legal sources
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DOI：
10.1093/comnet/cnx029
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发表时间：
2018-04-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Vassiliou, Yannis
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作者：
Koniaris, Marios;Anagnostopoulos, Ioannis;Vassiliou, Yannis
立法者、法律的信息系统的设计者以及公民经常面临各种问题，因为法律相互依存，而且解释法律所需的参考资料越来越多。在这篇文章中，我们介绍了“立法网络”（LN）作为一种新的方法来解决几个相当具有挑战性的问题，识别和量化的复杂性内的法律的域。我们收集了一个60多年的立法语料库的广泛数据集，发表在欧洲联盟的官方杂志上，我们进一步分析了它作为一个复杂的网络，从而深入了解其拓扑结构。除其他问题外，我们还对LN的演变进行了时间分析，并进行了强大的弹性测试，以评估其在特定情况下可能导致故障的脆弱性。结果是相当有希望的，表明我们的方法可以导致一个更好的解释立法属性的结构和演变。
Legislators, designers of legal information systems, as well as citizens face often problems due to the interdependence of the laws and the growing number of references needed to interpret them. In this article, we introduce the 'Legislation Network' (LN) as a novel approach to address several quite challenging issues for identifying and quantifying the complexity inside the Legal Domain. We have collected an extensive data set of a more than 60-year old legislation corpus, as published in the Official Journal of the European Union, and we further analysed it as a complex network, thus gaining insight into its topological structure. Among other issues, we have performed a temporal analysis of the evolution of the LN, as well as a robust resilience test to assess its vulnerability under specific cases that may lead to possible breakdowns. Results are quite promising, showing that our approach can lead towards an enhanced explanation in respect to the structure and evolution of legislation properties.