Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law

Katz, Daniel; Coupette, Corinna; Beckedorf, Janis; Hartung, Dirk

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3602098

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“…45 of the COPFP envisaged that the law would define the procedures for the coordination and harmonization of the territorial planning of GADs, and the coordination of these with other sectors (COPFP, Código Orgánico de Planificación y Finanzas Públicas, 2010), we have, at least for the case of mining, found that procedures and planning instruments to achieve this are lacking. Instead, we found a series of complex legal provisions possibly related to the expansion of the welfare state (Katz et al, 2020) which resulted in polarization, rather than promoting a balanced and equitable territorial order that integrates and articulates sociocultural, administrative, economic and management activities, contributing to the unity of the state (Asamblea Constituyente, 2008).…”

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Interdependencies between spatial planning and the mining laissez‐passer in cities: Policy analysis of the case of Ecuador

Gaudry

Ibarra

Carabajo

et al. 2022

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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Urban planning as a shared resource is tied with the 'tragedy of the commons'. Since UN-Habitat III, Ecuador has embraced the opportunity for urban sustainability. However, while the right to the city is constitutionally anchored since 2008, the integration of strategic sectoral plans and their spatial link remains unclear. Aiming at a better understanding on how sectoral plans, particularly mining, are articulated to planning instruments, we reviewed the existing instruments as well as those from the mining sector. Rooted in qualitative methods, interviews were conducted with respondents involved in the development of underground and land use planning in Ecuador. Primary data were collected during fieldtrips, and policy analysis was carried out descriptively. Findings were differentiated by spatial planning instruments, underground mining concessions and their implications for the empirical case study of Zaruma. Results showed that mining companies capture their risks and externalities into the local development agenda, and that municipalities remain limited to corrective or reactive measures. While mining sectoral plans consider the relevance of local development plans (PDOT), we identify an instrumental vacuum across the whole 'National Decentralized particularly

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Interdependencies between spatial planning and the mining laissez‐passer in cities: Policy analysis of the case of Ecuador

Gaudry

Ibarra

Carabajo

et al. 2022

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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“…In other studies, the more general directed acyclic graphs are used to represent citation networks, e.g. the network of precedents in the US [2] or of the total citation network in a system of statute law [3,5]. Recently, [8] has elaborated on the similarity between legal and software systems, drawing from best practices on the latter to propose improvements on the former.…”

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“…In the seminal works [2][3][4], the authors apply tools from the area of complex networks to examine the US legal system quantitatively, in particular the structure and content of the US Code and the US Supreme Court citation network. Recent studies focuses on the time-evolution of legal texts in the US and Germany, using a clustering algorithm [5]; similarly, [6] correlates changes in the Korean constitutional law to societal changes. Several references within [5] treat the time-evolution of national and super-national legal corpora from a network-perspective.…”

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“…Recent studies focuses on the time-evolution of legal texts in the US and Germany, using a clustering algorithm [5]; similarly, [6] correlates changes in the Korean constitutional law to societal changes. Several references within [5] treat the time-evolution of national and super-national legal corpora from a network-perspective.…”

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Information retrieval and structural complexity of legal trees

Förster¹,

Annibale²,

Gamberi³

et al. 2022

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We introduce a model for the retrieval of information hidden in legal texts. These are typically organised in a hierarchical (tree) structure, which a reader interested in a given provision needs to explore down to the "deepest" level (articles, clauses,...). We assess the structural complexity of legal trees by computing the mean first-passage time a random reader takes to retrieve information planted in the leaves. The reader is assumed to skim through the content of a legal text based on their interests/keywords, and be drawn towards the sought information based on keywords affinity, i.e. how well the Chapters/Section headers of the hierarchy seem to match the informational content of the leaves. Using randomly generated keyword patterns, we investigate the effect of two main features of the text -the horizontal and vertical coherence -on the searching time, and consider ways to validate our results using real legal texts. We obtain numerical and analytical results, the latter based on a mean-field approximation on the level of patterns, which lead to an explicit expression for the complexity of legal trees as a function of the structural parameters of the model.Policy implications of our results are briefly discussed.

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“…Besides enabling the systematic study of legal processes, digitized legal documents are also a good proxy for the evolution of sensitive social issues. Indeed, because of their key role in determining how societies function, law and legal decision-making are subject to public opinion [20] and constrained to evolve and adapt to new paradigms [21][22][23]. Therefore, legal documents reflect changes in culture and social norms [24].…”

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Socially disruptive periods and topics from information-theoretical analysis of judicial decisions

Lluc

Piga²,

Garcia-Teruel³

et al. 2023

EPJ Data Sci.

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Laws and legal decision-making regulate how societies function. Therefore, they evolve and adapt to new social paradigms and reflect changes in culture and social norms, and are a good proxy for the evolution of socially sensitive issues. Here, we use an information-theoretic methodology to quantitatively track trends and shifts in the evolution of large corpora of judicial decisions, and thus to detect periods in which disruptive topics arise. When applied to a large database containing the full text of over 100,000 judicial decisions from Spanish courts, we are able to identify an abrupt change in housing-related decisions around 2016. Because our information-theoretic approach pinpoints the specific content that drives change, we are also able to interpret the results in terms of the role played by legislative changes, landmark decisions, and the influence of social movements.

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Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law

Cited by 3 publications

References 35 publications

Interdependencies between spatial planning and the mining laissez‐passer in cities: Policy analysis of the case of Ecuador

Interdependencies between spatial planning and the mining laissez‐passer in cities: Policy analysis of the case of Ecuador

Information retrieval and structural complexity of legal trees

Socially disruptive periods and topics from information-theoretical analysis of judicial decisions

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