Network analysis in the legal domain: a complex model for European Union legal sources
Marios Koniaris, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Yannis Vassiliou
2017
Journal of Complex Networks
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 ...
Among other issues, we have performed a temporal analysis of the evolution of the Legislation Network, as well as a robust resilience test to assess its vulnerability under specific cases that may lead ...
In the present analysis, we propose an alternative approach to model and quantify legal complexity. Our model can be applied to civil law collections, such as the laws of the European Union. ...
doi:10.1093/comnet/cnx029
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