NDLI: A network approach to the French system of legal codes

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Author	Boulet, Romain Mazzega, Pierre Bourcier, Danièle
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	We explore one aspect of the structure of a codified legal system at the national level using a new type of representation to understand the strong or weak dependencies between the various fields of law. In Part I of this study, we analyze the graph associated with the network in which each French legal code is a vertex and an edge is produced between two vertices when a code cites another code at least one time. We show that this network distinguishes from many other real networks from a high density, giving it a particular structure that we call concentrated world and that differentiates a national legal system (as considered with a resolution at the code level) from small-world graphs identified in many social networks. Our analysis then shows that a few communities (groups of highly wired vertices) of codes covering large domains of regulation are structuring the whole system. Indeed we mainly find a central group of influent codes, a group of codes related to social issues and a group of codes dealing with territories and natural resources. The study of this codified legal system is also of interest in the field of the analysis of real networks. In particular we examine the impact of the high density on the structural characteristics of the graph and on the ways communities are searched for. Finally we provide an original visualization of this graph on an hemicyle-like plot, this representation being based on a statistical reduction of dissimilarity measures between vertices. In Part II (a following paper) we show how the consideration of the weights attributed to each edge in the network in proportion to the number of citations between two vertices (codes) allows deepening the analysis of the French legal system.
Starting Page	333
Ending Page	355
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09248463
Journal	Artificial Intelligence and Law
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728382
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-11-27
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Dense graph Network Concentrated world Legal code Codified legal system Communities Computational Linguistics Legal Aspects of Computing Philosophy of Law Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence Law

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