Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law - Short Presentation at Stanford CodeX 2021

Short Presentation at Stanford CodeX 2021 - Law, Education and Experience Talks (LEX)

1. Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law Janis Beckedorf, Michael Bommarito, Corinna Coupette, Dirk Hartung & Daniel Martin Katz Presentation at Stanford CodeX 2021 - Law, Education and Experience Talks (LEX)
2. Janis Beckedorf Heidelberg University Corinna Coupette Max Planck Institute for Informatics Daniel M. Katz Illinois Tech Chicago-Kent Bucerius Law School Stanford CodeX Dirk Hartung Bucerius Law School Stanford CodeX Overall Research Group Michael Bommarito Stanford CodeX
3. buceri.us/techcenter
4. We believe that Legal Complexity is a key underlying dynamic The inability to scale human capital alone to the scope and complexity of legal rule systems Demand for Legal Technology, Design, Informatics, Process Engineering are (in part) responses to increasing legal complexity Relationship Between Legal Complexity and Legal Innovation
5. WHAT IS Legal Complexity?
6. HOW MIGHT WE MEASURE Legal Complexity?
7. Daniel Martin Katz & Michael Bommarito, Measuring the complexity of the law: the United States Code, Artificial intelligence and law, 22(4), 337-374. (2014) Michael Bommarito & Daniel Martin Katz, A Mathematical Approach to the Study of the United States Code. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 389 (19), 4195-4200 (2010).
8. Here Katz/Bommarito ONLY investigated a single temporal snapshot of the 2010 US Code in an effort to explore its complexity Daniel Martin Katz & Michael Bommarito, Measuring the complexity of the law: the United States Code, Artificial intelligence and law, 22(4), 337-374. (2014)
9. Daniel Martin Katz, Corinna Coupette, Janis Beckedorf & Dirk Hartung, Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law, 10 Scientific Reports 18737 (2020) < Nature Research >
10. “We analyze the time series across both US and Germany over the past 25 years
11. Abs. 2 § 858 Abschnitt 1 Buch 3 BGB § 859 Abs. 4 Hierarchy Reference Sequence
12. Summary Statistics (2018)
13. Substantial Growth Germany USA
14. “But where is the Growth ? And how do we characterize this as time ticks forward ? Research interest
15. Nodes > Chapters of the US Code in 2018 > Size depends on the text length Edges > Cross-references from one Chapter to another > Opacity depends on the count of cross-references Chapter Quotient Graph
16. “Can we get a more expressive grouping?
17. Clustering with Infomap Source: Rosvall, M., Axelsson, D. & Bergstrom, C. The map equation. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 178, 13–23 (2009).
18. Cluster Quotient Graphs ... … [annual] 1994 2018
19. “Now we can trace the clusters over time …
20. Clustering – Family Graph > Multiple possible resolutions > Color by connected component = cluster family
21. In our latest paper, we have added the Regulations to the Statutes … Over more than two decades, this adds over a billion of words (tokens) to the analysis …
22. J.B. Ruhl Vanderbilt Law Pierpaolo Vivo King’s College The Physics of Law Legal Systems Through the Prism of Complexity Science Dan Katz Chicago-Kent Publication in Frontiers in Physics (H1 2021) physicsoflaw.com Nov 12–13, 2020 20 Papers 62 Authors 650+ Registrations 292 Participants (>30 Min.) 48 Countries Dirk Hartung Bucerius Law
23. Methods Paper with exemplary application https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3773130
24. Growth: Better Picture including Regs
26. Meso: Families / Topics Germany United States
27. Micro: Section Types
28. Micro: Section Types
29. Source: Coupette/Fleckner, Festschrift 25 Jahre WpHG, De Gruyter, 2019 Wertpapierhandelsgesetz (Securities Trading Act) 1995 2007 2019
30. Profiles: Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz)
31. Profiles: Reliance + Responsibility Dodd-Frank Act (United States) Securities Trading Act (Germany)
32. Macro: Legal Networks are Interesting Networks In-Only Component Out-Only Component Strongly Connected Component Social, Bio Networks and Internet: Bowties IN SCC T&T T&T OUT Legal Docs Network: Rocket
33. Legal Complexity Research Federal State Local Legislative Executive Judiciary International Advanced methods leading to interdisciplinarily relevant insights Private Law (e.g. Contracts, etc.)
34. Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law Janis Beckedorf, Michael Bommarito, Corinna Coupette, Dirk Hartung & Daniel Martin Katz Presentation at Stanford CodeX 2021 - Law, Education and Experience Talks (LEX)