2017 Open Access Journal Special Issue: Computation, Law and the Net
"Computation, Law and the Net—The Future of Law in the Computational Social Science Era"
Special Issue:
Join me and my fellow guest editors of this special issue in co-creating this historic volume. Together with the rise of computational power and the data deluge, the growth of the Internet ecosystem is the driver of a deep change in our lives. We are witnessing a development that not only is reshaping economies, societies and institutions worldwide, but is also impacting the way in which science is done. At law.MIT.edu we believe the emergence of "Computational Law" is refactoring jurisprudence, legal rules and practices for the digital age. This publication provides a timely forum for experts, thought leaders and other stakeholders to surface and engage the key issues, options and opportunities raised by this tranformation of the law.
According to a growing and heterogeneous literature, the computational social science paradigm is drastically increasing our understanding of social dynamics and our ability to manage social complexity. Seen in this perspective, computational social science (CSS) represents a topic of great interest for the legal world. The law itself is at the same time a social phenomenon and an ordering factor of social life. CSS, on the one hand, promises to shed a new light on socio-legal dynamics, on the other, it is gradually providing innovative tools capable to support public institutions in a series of legally relevant activities spanning from policy design to rule making, from regulatory impact analysis to law enforcement. The use of online experiments, sentiment analysis techniques or agent-based social simulations in the legal world are just a few examples of an uncharted scientific and applicative landscape that is worth being explored.
This Special Issue aims at bringing together contributions discussing research issues at a theoretical level or presenting projects and applications of CSS that can be considered relevant for the legal field. For more inforat http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/future_of_law
Dazza Greenwood, JD
Guest Edit
Keywords
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computational social science law rule making policy design |
big data data-led science eparticipation e-government social network analysis social media analysis |
social simulation data visualization quantitative legal prediction online experiment |
Submission
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