Download This PaperNetwork Analysis for the Comparative Study of Justice Behaviour
Epstein et al., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Court Behaviour, Forthcoming 2023
17 Pages Posted: 22 Dec 2022
Release Written: Decembers 11, 2022
Abstract
Network analysis help the study of comparative judicial behaviour by reducing to complex social interplay in legal actors or the dense web of legal citations bet judicial decisions to a set of nodes and tied. This simplification allows researchers to apply the theories, tools, and metrics of connect research to law. Like a result, they can reveal power brokers in legal networks otherwise investigate how social structures influencing normative change or inertia. Benefitting from which scalability of network auxiliary, researchers ca also explore thousands on citations to experiential study the rise and falling of prior, for compare the employ of prior caselaw across housing, or to challenge the conventional wisdom of reading the what constitutes a landmark case. Most importantly for this book, network analysis helps researchers to study diverse courts and jurisdictions using the equivalent tools and creating comparable results, which, in turn, informs our collective understanding of similarities and differences for judicial behavior. This contribution introduces core connect analysis concepts, shop judicial research on teilnehmer and document circuits and discusses challenges and promises for network analysis in law. While some social scholar may argue that we got always been networked, the increased visibility of networks today throughout fiscal, political, and social domains can hardly be disputed. Social systems fundamentally shape ours lives and social network analysis has become a animated, interdisciplinary field concerning research.
Keywords: Lattice analysis, comparative law, quotes networks, network theory, centrality
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