Complexity Theory And Law

Author : Jamie Murray,Thomas Webb,Steven Wheatley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351658171

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Complexity Theory and Law by Jamie Murray,Thomas Webb,Steven Wheatley Pdf

This collection of essays explores the different ways the insights from complexity theory can be applied to law. Complexity theory – a variant of systems theory – views law as an emergent, complex, self-organising system comprised of an interactive network of actors and systems that operate with no overall guiding hand, giving rise to complex, collective behaviour in law communications and actions. Addressing such issues as the unpredictability of legal systems, the ability of legal systems to adapt to changes in society, the importance of context, and the nature of law, the essays look to the implications of a complexity theory analysis for the study of public policy and administrative law, international law and human rights, regulatory practices in business and finance, and the practice of law and legal ethics. These are areas where law, which craves certainty, encounters unending, irresolvable complexity. This collection shows the many ways complexity theory thinking can reshape and clarify our understanding of the various problems relating to the theory and practice of law.

Author : John Law,Annemarie Mol
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0822328461

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Complexities by John Law,Annemarie Mol Pdf

These essays examine complexity from a variety of perspectives and cover an array of case studies and topics that include market behaviour, medical interventions, aeronautical design, the governing of supranational states, ecology, road-building, meteorology and the science of complexity itself.

Author : Aaron Pycroft,Clemens Bartollas
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781447311409

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Applying Complexity Theory by Aaron Pycroft,Clemens Bartollas Pdf

This is the first book to explore the application of complexity theory to difficult practice issues in criminal justice and social work and brings together experts in this emerging field to address complexity theory from a range of perspectives, providing a detailed but accessible discussion of the key issues to whole systems approaches.

Author : Marc Goergen,Christine Mallin,Eve Mitleton-Kelly,Ahmed Al-Hawamdeh,Iris Hse-Yu Chiu
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849808002

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Corporate Governance and Complexity Theory by Marc Goergen,Christine Mallin,Eve Mitleton-Kelly,Ahmed Al-Hawamdeh,Iris Hse-Yu Chiu Pdf

This book is a major advancement in the area of complexity and corporate governance. By bringing together a range of leading experts in the fields of complexity and corporate governance, this book manages to knowledgeably wed the emerging field of complex systems thinking with the more established area of corporate governance. It brings a range of new and exciting concepts, such as emergence, co-evolution and selforganisation, and integrates them into an overarching and holistic understanding of corporate governance that is a clear benefit to corporate actors and stakeholders. The book is a major resource for both academic and practitioner audiences.

Author : Andrés Guadamuz
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Computer crimes
ISBN : 1848443102

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Networks, Complexity and Internet Regulation by Andrés Guadamuz Pdf

Complexity theory as a subject has gained increasing prominence across numerous disciplines including physics, biology, sociology and economics. Large interconnected systems such as the Internet display a number of inherent architectural characteristics deeming them well-suited to the study of complex dynamic networks. This important book uses various network science-based tools to explore the contentious issue of Internet regulation. The author demonstrates that the Internet as a global communications space is a self-organizing entity that has proven problematic for regulators, and that in order to regulate cyberspace, one must first understand how the network operates. In order to illustrate how the world wide web operates, Andres Guadamuz presents case studies in copyright policy, peer-production and cyber crime, providing in-depth analyses of the challenges posed by the Internet's complex dynamic networks. The book concludes that regulatory efforts that ignore empirical evidence will ultimately encounter serious problems. Networks, Complexity and Internet Regulation introduces network theory to legal audiences and applies some of the characteristics of large distributed self-organizing networks to the topic of Internet regulation. As such, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to researchers, academics and students in the fields of Internet regulation and policy, intellectual property law and information technology law. Contents: Introduction 1. The Science of Complex Networks 2. Complexity and the Law 3. Internet Architecture and Regulation 4. Copyright Networks 5. Peer-production Networks 6. Cybercrime and Networks Conclusion Bibliography Index

Author : Julian S. Webb,Webb, Graham,Professor of Legal Education Julian Webb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184472168X

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Law, Complexity and Globalisation by Julian S. Webb,Webb, Graham,Professor of Legal Education Julian Webb Pdf

Complexity theory has its earliest origins in studies of self-organisation bwithin genetic and other biological systems, and in parallel developments elsewhere in the natural sciences. More recently still, complexity theory has begun to impact thinking in the social sciences and sicial theory. Philisophically, there are still strong links with both (post-) structuralist and phenomenological traditions, while in terms of social theory, complexity theory has tended to be treated as aspecies of systems theory, and hence linked to the normative-functionalist projects of Durkheim and Parsons. However, more recent work on the social science of complexity has stressed how complexity theory can transcend the statis inherent in classical functionalist thinking about the social order, by stressing the fluid, heterogeneous, unpredictable and increasingly global ordering of the social world.

Author : Ann Mumford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139493475

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Tax Policy, Women and the Law by Ann Mumford Pdf

Tax policy frequently targets the choices that women face in many aspects of their lives. Decisions regarding working away from home, having children, marrying, registering a partnership or cohabiting with a partner all entail tax consequences. The end of the twentieth century saw progress in women's legal and social equality, but many governments began to increase their reliance on the tax system as a means of influencing the choices that women make. The juxtaposition of this instrumentalist deployment of tax with persisting economic inequality for women is the starting point for this book. Employing a range of theoretical approaches, and grounding its investigations in sociological theory and cultural philosophy, it provides the foundation for a comparative, contextual consideration of the issues that arise at the intersection of women, tax policy and the law.

Author : Steven Wheatley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191066863

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The Idea of International Human Rights Law by Steven Wheatley Pdf

International human rights law has emerged as an academic subject in its own right, separate from, but still related to international law. This book explains the distinctive nature of this discipline by examining the influence of the idea of human rights on general international law. Rather than make use of a particular moral philosophy or political theory, it explains human rights by examining the way the term is deployed in legal practice, on the understanding that words are given meaning through their use. Relying on complexity theory to make sense of the legal practice of the United Nations, the core human rights treaties, and customary international law, the work demonstrates the emergence of the moral concept of human rights as a fact of the social world. It reveals the dynamic nature of this concept, and the influence of the idea on the legal practice, a fact that explains the fragmentation of international law and special nature of international human rights law.

Author : Sergio Albeverio,Elisa Mastrogiacomo,Emanuela Rosazza Gianin,Stefania Ugolini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030957032

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Complexity and Emergence by Sergio Albeverio,Elisa Mastrogiacomo,Emanuela Rosazza Gianin,Stefania Ugolini Pdf

This book includes contributions about mathematics, physics, philosophy of science, economics and finance and resulted from the Summer School “Complexity and Emergence: Ideas, Methods, with a Special Attention to Economics and Finance” held in Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, on 22–27 July 2018. The aim of the book is to provide useful instruments from the theory of complex systems, both on the theoretical level and the methodological ones, profiting from knowledge and insights from leading experts of different communities. It moves from the volume editors' conviction that to achieve progress in understanding socio-economical as well as ecological problems of our complex word such preparation is needed, together with a critical reconsideration of our basic scientific and economical approach. The potential readers are primarily master and doctorate students of mathematics, information sciences, theoretical physics and economics, as well as research workers in those areas, who want to enlarge their spectrum of knowledge towards the area of complexity and emergence. Since ideas and methods of the theory of complex systems also apply to other areas (from engineering and architecture to biology and medicine, e.g.), students and research workers from those areas will also profit from this book.

Author : Russell Sandberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429575495

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Subversive Legal History by Russell Sandberg Pdf

Provocative, audacious and challenging, this book rejuvenates not only the historical study of law but also the role of Law Schools by asking which stories we tell and which stories we forget. It argues that a historical approach to law should be at the beating heart of the Law School curriculum. Far from being archaic, elitist and dull, historical perspectives on law are and should be subversive. Comparison with the past underscores: how the law and legal institutions are not fixed but are constructed; that every line drawn in the law and everything the law holds as sacred is actually arbitrary; and how the environment into which law students are socialised is a historical construct. A subversive approach is needed to highlight, question, de-construct and re-construct the authored nature of the law, revealing that legal change on a larger scale is possible. Far from being archaic, this recasts legal history as being anarchic. Subversive Legal History is not a type of Legal History but is its defining characteristic if it is to be a central part of Law School life. It describes a legal method that should not be the preserve only of specialist legal historians but rather should be part of the toolkit of all law students, teachers and researchers. This book will be essential reading for all who work and study in Law Schools, proposing a radical new approach not only to the historical study of law but also to the content, purpose and ambition of legal education. A subversive approach can revolutionise Law Schools providing a more ambitious legal education which is grounded in the socio-legal reality, helping to ensure that today’s law students are better equipped to be the professionals and citizens of tomorrow.

Author : Pierpaolo Vivo,Daniel Martin Katz,J. B. Ruhl
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889761296

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The Physics of the Law: Legal Systems Through the Prism of Complexity Science by Pierpaolo Vivo,Daniel Martin Katz,J. B. Ruhl Pdf

Author : Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos,Victoria Brooks
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781784712570

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Research Methods in Environmental Law by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos,Victoria Brooks Pdf

This timely Handbook brings innovative, free-thinking and radical approaches to research methods in environmental law. With a comprehensive approach it brings together key concepts such as sustainability, climate change, activism, education and Actor-Network Theory. It considers how the Anthropocene subjects environmental law to critique, and to the needs of the variety of bodies, human and non-human, that require its protection. This much-needed book provides a theoretically informed analysis of methodological approaches in the discipline, such as constitutional analysis, rights-based approaches, spatial/geographical analysis, immersive methodologies and autoethnography, which will aid in the practical critique and re-imagining of Environmental Law.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Hiscock,William van Caenegem
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849806794

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The Internationalisation of Law by Mary Elizabeth Hiscock,William van Caenegem Pdf

This insightful book explores the acute challenges presented by the .internationalisation. of law, a trend that has been accelerated by the growing requirement for academics and practitioners to work and research across countries and regions with differing legal traditions. The authors have all confronted these challenges of internationalisation throughtheir extensive knowledge and experience in civil law, common law and mixed jurisdictions around the globe. Their analysis of the implications for researchers and teachers, as well as practitioners, law-makers and reformers is original andtheir different proposals for dealing with the challenges are both practical and at times, radical.

Author : Göktuğ Morçöl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136283468

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A Complexity Theory for Public Policy by Göktuğ Morçöl Pdf

Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena. Concepts and methods of complexity theory have been applied by scholars of public affairs in North America and Europe, but a comprehensive framework for these applications is lacking. A Complexity Theory for Public Policy proposes a conceptual synthesis and sets a foundation for future developments and applications. In this book, Göktuğ Morçöl convincingly makes the case that complexity theory can help us understand better the self-organizational, emergent, and co-evolutionary characteristics of complex policy systems. In doing so, he discuss the epistemological implications of complexity theory and the methods complexity researchers use, and those methods they could use. As the complexity studies spread more around the world in the coming decades, the contents of this book will become appealing to larger audiences, particularly to scholars and graduate students in public affairs. The unique combination of synthesis and explanation of concepts and methods found in this book will serve as reference frames for future works.

Author : Erçetin, ?efika ?ule
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466660717

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Chaos and Complexity Theory in World Politics by Erçetin, ?efika ?ule Pdf

As an important research field in mathematics, chaos theory impacts many different disciplines such as physics, engineering, economics, and biology. Most recently, however, chaos theory has also been applied to the social sciences, helping to explain the complex and interdependent nature of international politics. Chaos and Complexity Theory in World Politics aims to bring attention to new developments in global politics within the last few years. Demonstrating various issues in international relations and the application of chaos theory within this field, this publication serves as an essential reference for researchers and professionals, as well as useful educational material for academicians and students.