The digitization of legal texts and advances in artificial intelligence, natural language
processing, text mining, network analysis, and machine learning have led to new forms of …

The concept of precedent is fundamental to domestic courts, especially in Anglo-American
common law systems, where judges are bound to the court's past decisions. By contrast …

Item response theory models for roll‐call voting data provide political scientists with
parsimonious descriptions of political actors' relative preferences. However, models using …

While Supreme Court cases are generally salient or important, some are many degrees
more important than others. A wide range of theoretical and empirical work throughout the …

Law search is fundamental to legal reasoning and its articulation is an important challenge
and open problem in the ongoing efforts to investigate legal reasoning as a formal process …

Recent studies of the preliminary reference procedure highlight that the Court of Justice of
the European Union (CJEU) defers to national courts at higher rates than scholars initially …

Complexity science provides a powerful framework for understanding physical, biological
and social systems, and network analysis is one of its principal tools. Since many complex …

This study uses simple statistical and functional analysis in conjunction with network
analysis algorithms to examine the network of Canadian caselaw using data supplied by the …

The law is permanently under construction. Most legal change is intentional. A legislator, a
court, or one of the law's subjects hopes to better achieve a purpose by switching from one …

Die Arbeit wurde im Frühjahrstrimester 2018 von der Bucerius Law School als Dissertation
angenommen; alle Auswertungen sind auf dem Stand von Januar 2018. Ich danke meinem …