research-article

The network of French legal codes

Authors:

Pierre Mazzega,

Danièle Bourcier,

Romain BouletAuthors Info & Claims

ICAIL '09: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Pages 236 - 237

https://doi.org/10.1145/1568234.1568271

Published: 08 June 2009 Publication History

Get Access

Abstract

We propose an analysis of the codified Law of France as a structured system. Fifty two legal codes are selected on the basis of explicit legal criteria and considered as vertices with their mutual quotations forming the edges in a network which properties are analyzed relying on graph theory. We find that a group of 10 codes are simultaneously the most citing and the most cited by other codes, and are also strongly connected together so forming a "rich club" sub-graph. Three other code communities are also found that somewhat partition the legal field is distinct thematic sub-domains. The legal interpretation of this partition is opening new untraditional lines of research. We also conjecture that many legal systems are forming such new kind of networks that share some properties in common with small worlds but are far denser. We propose to call "concentrated world".

References

[1]

Boulet, R. 2008. Comparaison de graphes, applications à l'étude d'un réseau de sociabilité paysan au Moyen Âge. Doctoral Thesis; Université de Toulouse II, Le Mirail.

Google Scholar

[2]

Boulet, R., Jouve, B., Rossi, F., and Villa, N. 2008. Batch kernel SOM and related Laplacian methods for social network analysis. Neurocomputing, 71, 1257--1273.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[3]

Boulet, R., Mazzega, P. et Bourcier, D. 2009. Analyse d'un graphe juridique dense -- Le monde concentré des codes législatifs. Technique et Science Informatiques, n° spécial Graphes de Terrain, M. Latapy ed., soumis.

Google Scholar

[4]

Bourcier, D., and Mazzega, P. 2007a. Toward measure of complexity in legal systems. ICAIL'07, June 4--8, Stanford, California USA, ACM Press, 211--215.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[5]

Bourcier, D., and Mazzega, P. 2007b. Codification law article and graphs, Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, Jurix 2007, A. R. Lodder and L. Mommers (eds.), IOS Press, 29--38.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[6]

Chung, F., and Lu, L. 2006. Complex Graphs and Networks. American Mathematical Society.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[7]

Clauset, A., Newman, M. E. J., and Moore, C. 2004. Finding community structure in very large networks. Physical Review E, 70, Issue 6.

Crossref

Google Scholar

[8]

LEGIFRANCE (2008) Service Public de la Diffusion du Droit, http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/.

Google Scholar

[9]

Newman, M. E. J., and Park, J. 2003. Why social networks are different from other types of networks. Physical Review E, 68, 036122.

Crossref

Google Scholar

[10]

Ost, F., and van de Kerchove, M. 2002. De la pyramide au réseau? Pour une théorie dialectique du droit. Publ. Faculté Univ. Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, 596 pp.

Google Scholar

[11]

Watts, D. J., and Strogatz, S. H. 1998. Collective dynamics of 'small world' networks. Nature, 393, 440--442.

Crossref

Google Scholar

[12]

Zhang, P., and Koppaka, L. 2007. Semantics-based legal citation network. ICAIL'07, June 4--8, Stanford, California USA, ACM Press, 123--130.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Auer ÁCsibor FOrosz KPollner P(2024)A korlátozott precedensrendszer hatása a kúriai ítéletek hivatkozásairaJogtudományi Közlöny10.59851/jk.79.05.279:5(224-235)Online publication date: 28-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.59851/jk.79.05.2
Coupette CHartung DKatz D(2024)Legal hypergraphsPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences10.1098/rsta.2023.0141382:2270Online publication date: 26-Feb-2024
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0141
Taniguchi SHashizume A(2024)Reference Relations in RDA Guidelines and Instructions: A Network AnalysisTechnical Services Quarterly10.1080/07317131.2023.230050941:1(1-21)Online publication date: 14-Mar-2024
https://doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2023.2300509
Show More Cited By

Recommendations

A network approach to the French system of legal codes--part I: analysis of a dense network

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 ...
Network analysis of the French environmental code
AICOL-I/IVR-XXIV'09: Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on AI approaches to the complexity of legal systems: complex systems, the semantic web, ontologies, argumentation, and dialogue

We perform a detailed analysis of the network constituted by the citations in a legal code, we search for hidden structures and properties. The graph associated to the Environmental code has a small-world structure and it is partitioned in several hidden ...
The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems
Abstract
Technological developments increasingly enable monitoring and steering the behavior of individuals. Enforcement of the law by means of technology can be much more effective and pervasive than enforcement by humans, such as law enforcement ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

ICAIL '09: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

June 2009

244 pages

ISBN:9781605585970

DOI:10.1145/1568234

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

In-Cooperation

SIGAI: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 08 June 2009

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

ICAIL '09

ICAIL '09: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

June 8 - 12, 2009

Barcelona, Spain

Acceptance Rates

ICAIL '09 Paper Acceptance Rate 22 of 58 submissions, 38%;

Overall Acceptance Rate 69 of 169 submissions, 41%

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

25
Total Citations
View Citations
237
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)13
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)1

Reflects downloads up to 01 Mar 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Auer ÁCsibor FOrosz KPollner P(2024)A korlátozott precedensrendszer hatása a kúriai ítéletek hivatkozásairaJogtudományi Közlöny10.59851/jk.79.05.279:5(224-235)Online publication date: 28-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.59851/jk.79.05.2
Coupette CHartung DKatz D(2024)Legal hypergraphsPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences10.1098/rsta.2023.0141382:2270Online publication date: 26-Feb-2024
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0141
Taniguchi SHashizume A(2024)Reference Relations in RDA Guidelines and Instructions: A Network AnalysisTechnical Services Quarterly10.1080/07317131.2023.230050941:1(1-21)Online publication date: 14-Mar-2024
https://doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2023.2300509
Tetteh E(2022)Public Administration Curriculum-Based Big Data Policy-Analytic EpistemologyResearch Anthology on Big Data Analytics, Architectures, and Applications10.4018/978-1-6684-3662-2.ch063(1307-1328)Online publication date: 2022
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3662-2.ch063
Ribeiro AAraújo OOliveira LInácio M(2022)The Executive Branch decisions in Brazil: A study of administrative decrees through machine learning and network analysisPLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.027174117:7(e0271741)Online publication date: 21-Jul-2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271741
La Cava LSimeri ATagarelli AAmigo ECastells PGonzalo JCarterette BCulpepper JKazai G(2022)LawNet-VizProceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval10.1145/3477495.3531668(3300-3305)Online publication date: 6-Jul-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477495.3531668
Bhattacharya PGhosh KPal AGhosh S(2022)Legal case document similarity: You need both network and textInformation Processing & Management10.1016/j.ipm.2022.10306959:6(103069)Online publication date: Nov-2022
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103069
Kondo RYoshida THisano R(2022)Masked prediction and interdependence network of the law using data from large-scale Japanese court judgmentsArtificial Intelligence and Law10.1007/s10506-022-09336-531:4(739-771)Online publication date: 21-Oct-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-022-09336-5
Friedrich R(2021)Complexity and Entropy in Legal LanguageFrontiers in Physics10.3389/fphy.2021.6718829Online publication date: 4-Jun-2021
https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.671882
Sulis EHumphreys LVernero FAmantea IAudrito DDi Caro L(2021)Exploiting co-occurrence networks for classification of implicit inter-relationships in legal textsInformation Systems10.1016/j.is.2021.101821(101821)Online publication date: Jun-2021
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2021.101821
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Abstract

References

Cited By

Recommendations

A network approach to the French system of legal codes--part I: analysis of a dense network

Network analysis of the French environmental code

The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems

Comments

Information

Published In

In-Cooperation

Publisher

Publication History

Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Conference

Acceptance Rates

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Login options

Full Access

View options

PDF

eReader

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media

Affiliations