Toward measures of complexity in legal systems
Toward measures of complexity in legal systems
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衡量法律体系复杂性的方法
DOI：
10.1145/1276318.1276359
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
P. Mazzega
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作者：
D. Bourcier;P. Mazzega
法律可以被看作是一个复杂的动力系统，从网络结构演化而来。各种规模的潜在相互作用可能产生不可预测的影响。这种基于非线性动力学的客观复杂性存在于任何法律的体系中：它可以被观察到。我们在这里提出的指导方针，制定两个措施的复杂性，在法律的系统与这些动态。第一种是“基于结构”的方法，涉及对特定语料库中的法律的文本组织和引文进行网络分析。第二种是“基于内容”的衡量标准，它依赖于对任何法律的制度产生的“法律的产出”的多样性作出某种评价。它扎根于法律的体系的最深处，其建构诉诸于法律的理论的各种基本原理。它还表明，这两个措施是代表较大类的法律的复杂性措施。然后简要讨论了这些措施的一些潜在用途。
Law can be considered as a complex dynamical system evolving from network structures. Potential interactions at various scales can generate unpredictable effects. This objective complexity based on non-linear dynamics exists in any legal system: it can be just observed. We propose here guidelines to develop two measures of complexity in legal systems related to these dynamics. The first one - a "structure-based" measure - involves the network analysis of legal text organization and quotations in a given corpus. The second one - a "content-based" measure - relies on some evaluation of the diversity of "legal outputs" generated by any legal system. Anchored in the innermost part of a legal system, its construction appeals to various fundamentals of Legal Theory. It is also shown that these two measures are representatives of larger classes of legal complexity measures. Some potential uses of these measures are then briefly discussed.