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Complexity Theory and Law

Author : Jamie Murray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351658174
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Complexity Theory and Law written by Jamie Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the different ways the insights from complexity theory can be applied to law. Complexity theory – a variant of systems theory – views law as an emergent, complex, self-organising system comprised of an interactive network of actors and systems that operate with no overall guiding hand, giving rise to complex, collective behaviour in law communications and actions. Addressing such issues as the unpredictability of legal systems, the ability of legal systems to adapt to changes in society, the importance of context, and the nature of law, the essays look to the implications of a complexity theory analysis for the study of public policy and administrative law, international law and human rights, regulatory practices in business and finance, and the practice of law and legal ethics. These are areas where law, which craves certainty, encounters unending, irresolvable complexity. This collection shows the many ways complexity theory thinking can reshape and clarify our understanding of the various problems relating to the theory and practice of law.

Corporate Governance and Complexity Theory

Author : Marc Goergen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849808007
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Corporate Governance and Complexity Theory written by Marc Goergen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a major advancement in the area of complexity and corporate governance. By bringing together a range of leading experts in the fields of complexity and corporate governance, this book manages to knowledgeably wed the emerging field of complex systems thinking with the more established area of corporate governance. It brings a range of new and exciting concepts, such as emergence, co-evolution and selforganisation, and integrates them into an overarching and holistic understanding of corporate governance that is a clear benefit to corporate actors and stakeholders. The book is a major resource for both academic and practitioner audiences.

Complexities

Author : John Law
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822383551
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Complexities written by John Law and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of contributors to offer—particularly within the field of science studies—approaches to a theory of complexity, and at the same time a theoretical introduction to the topic. Indeed, they examine not only ways of relating to complexity but complexity in practice. Individual essays study complexity from a variety of perspectives, addressing market behavior, medical interventions, aeronautical design, the governing of supranational states, ecology, roadbuilding, meteorology, the science of complexity itself, and the psychology of childhood trauma. Other topics include complex wholes (holism) in the sciences, moral complexity in seemingly amoral endeavors, and issues relating to the protection of African elephants. With a focus on such concepts as multiplicity, partial connections, and ebbs and flows, the collection includes narratives from Kenya, Great Britain, Papua New Guinea, the Netherlands, France, and the meetings of the European Commission, written by anthropologists, economists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and scholars of science, technology, and society. Contributors. Andrew Barry, Steven D. Brown, Michel Callon, Chunglin Kwa, John Law, Nick Lee, Annemarie Mol, Marilyn Strathern, Laurent Thévenot, Charis Thompson

Networks, Complexity and Internet Regulation

Author : Andrés Guadamuz
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848443105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Networks, Complexity and Internet Regulation written by Andrés Guadamuz and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complexity theory as a subject has gained increasing prominence across numerous disciplines including physics, biology, sociology and economics. Large interconnected systems such as the Internet display a number of inherent architectural characteristics deeming them well-suited to the study of complex dynamic networks. This important book uses various network science-based tools to explore the contentious issue of Internet regulation. The author demonstrates that the Internet as a global communications space is a self-organizing entity that has proven problematic for regulators, and that in order to regulate cyberspace, one must first understand how the network operates. In order to illustrate how the world wide web operates, Andres Guadamuz presents case studies in copyright policy, peer-production and cyber crime, providing in-depth analyses of the challenges posed by the Internet's complex dynamic networks. The book concludes that regulatory efforts that ignore empirical evidence will ultimately encounter serious problems. Networks, Complexity and Internet Regulation introduces network theory to legal audiences and applies some of the characteristics of large distributed self-organizing networks to the topic of Internet regulation. As such, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to researchers, academics and students in the fields of Internet regulation and policy, intellectual property law and information technology law. Contents: Introduction 1. The Science of Complex Networks 2. Complexity and the Law 3. Internet Architecture and Regulation 4. Copyright Networks 5. Peer-production Networks 6. Cybercrime and Networks Conclusion Bibliography Index

Complexities

Author : John Law
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822328469
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Complexities written by John Law and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays examine complexity from a variety of perspectives and cover an array of case studies and topics that include market behaviour, medical interventions, aeronautical design, the governing of supranational states, ecology, road-building, meteorology and the science of complexity itself.

Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences

Author : David Byrne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134714742
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences written by David Byrne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaos and complexity are the new buzz words in both science and contemporary society. The ideas they represent have enormous implications for the way we understand and engage with the world. Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences introduces students to the central ideas which surround the chaos/complexity theories. It discusses key concepts before using them as a way of investigating the nature of social research. By applying them to such familiar topics as urban studies, education and health, David Byrne allows readers new to the subject to appreciate the contribution which complexity theory can make to social research and to illuminating the crucial social issues of our day.

Law as Data

Author : Michael A. Livermore
Publisher : Seminar
ISBN 13 : 9781947864139
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Law as Data written by Michael A. Livermore and published by Seminar. This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the digitization of legal texts and developments in the fields of statistics, computer science, and data analytics have opened entirely new approaches to the study of law. This volume explores the new field of computational legal analysis, an approach marked by its use of legal texts as data. The emphasis herein is work that pushes methodological boundaries, either by using new tools to study longstanding questions within legal studies or by identifying new questions in response to developments in data availability and analysis. By using the text and underlying data of legal documents as the direct objects of quantitative statistical analysis, Law as Data introduces the legal world to the broad range of computational tools already proving themselves relevant to law scholarship and practice, and highlights the early steps in what promises to be an exciting new approach to studying the law.

Applying Complexity Theory

Author : Aaron Pycroft
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 144731140X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Applying Complexity Theory written by Aaron Pycroft and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complexity theorywhich examines the dynamic interactions of parts in a systemhas increasingly been used to study human organizations. This is the first book to explore its application to professions in criminal justice and social work. It brings together experts in this emerging theoretical field from a range of different perspectives, providing detailed but accessible discussions of the key issues at hand, including the nature of complex adaptive systems, their application to service delivery, and the efficacy and ethics of criminal justice and social work interventions. Together the contributors demonstrate the usefulness of complexity theory in addressing some of our most significant and intractable social problems.

Complexity Theory and the Politics of Education

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9460912400
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Complexity Theory and the Politics of Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complexity theory has become a major influence in discussions about the theory and practice of education. This book focuses on a question which so far has received relatively little attention in such discussions, which is the question of the politics of complexity.

Law, Complexity and Globalisation

Author : Julian S. Webb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781844721689
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Law, Complexity and Globalisation written by Julian S. Webb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complexity theory has its earliest origins in studies of self-organisation bwithin genetic and other biological systems, and in parallel developments elsewhere in the natural sciences. More recently still, complexity theory has begun to impact thinking in the social sciences and sicial theory. Philisophically, there are still strong links with both (post-) structuralist and phenomenological traditions, while in terms of social theory, complexity theory has tended to be treated as aspecies of systems theory, and hence linked to the normative-functionalist projects of Durkheim and Parsons. However, more recent work on the social science of complexity has stressed how complexity theory can transcend the statis inherent in classical functionalist thinking about the social order, by stressing the fluid, heterogeneous, unpredictable and increasingly global ordering of the social world.

Tax Policy, Women and the Law

Author : Ann Mumford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493477
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Tax Policy, Women and the Law written by Ann Mumford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tax policy frequently targets the choices that women face in many aspects of their lives. Decisions regarding working away from home, having children, marrying, registering a partnership or cohabiting with a partner all entail tax consequences. The end of the twentieth century saw progress in women's legal and social equality, but many governments began to increase their reliance on the tax system as a means of influencing the choices that women make. The juxtaposition of this instrumentalist deployment of tax with persisting economic inequality for women is the starting point for this book. Employing a range of theoretical approaches, and grounding its investigations in sociological theory and cultural philosophy, it provides the foundation for a comparative, contextual consideration of the issues that arise at the intersection of women, tax policy and the law.

Diversity and Complexity

Author : Scott E. Page
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400835143
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Diversity and Complexity written by Scott E. Page and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for performance measures. In complex adaptive systems, diversity makes fundamental contributions to system performance. Scott Page gives a concise primer on how diversity happens, how it is maintained, and how it affects complex systems. He explains how diversity underpins system level robustness, allowing for multiple responses to external shocks and internal adaptations; how it provides the seeds for large events by creating outliers that fuel tipping points; and how it drives novelty and innovation. Page looks at the different kinds of diversity--variations within and across types, and distinct community compositions and interaction structures--and covers the evolution of diversity within complex systems and the factors that determine the amount of maintained diversity within a system. Provides a concise and accessible introduction Shows how diversity underpins robustness and fuels tipping points Covers all types of diversity The essential primer on diversity in complex adaptive systems

Three Lectures on Complexity and Black Holes

Author : Leonard Susskind
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030451097
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Three Lectures on Complexity and Black Holes written by Leonard Susskind and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three lectures cover a certain aspect of complexity and black holes, namely the relation to the second law of thermodynamics. The first lecture describes the meaning of quantum complexity, the analogy between entropy and complexity, and the second law of complexity. Lecture two reviews the connection between the second law of complexity and the interior of black holes. Prof. L. Susskind discusses how firewalls are related to periods of non-increasing complexity which typically only occur after an exponentially long time. The final lecture is about the thermodynamics of complexity, and “uncomplexity” as a resource for doing computational work. The author explains the remarkable power of “one clean qubit,” in both computational terms and in space-time terms. This book is intended for graduate students and researchers who want to take the first steps towards the mysteries of black holes and their complexity.

Handbook of Research Methods in Complexity Science

Author : Eve Mitleton-Kelly
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785364421
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research Methods in Complexity Science written by Eve Mitleton-Kelly and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive Handbook is aimed at both academic researchers and practitioners in the field of complexity science. The book’s 26 chapters, specially written by leading experts, provide in-depth coverage of research methods based on the sciences of complexity. The research methods presented are illustratively applied to practical cases and are readily accessible to researchers and decision makers alike.

A Crude Look at the Whole

Author : John H. Miller
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0465073867
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book A Crude Look at the Whole written by John H. Miller and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top expert explains why a social and economic understanding of complex systems will help society to anticipate and confront our biggest challenges Imagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one shard at a time. While you could probably learn a lot about each piece, you would have no idea about what the entire picture looks like. This is reductionism -- the idea that to understand the world we only need to study its pieces -- and it is how most social scientists approach their work. In A Crude Look at the Whole, social scientist and economist John H. Miller shows why we need to start looking at whole pictures. For one thing, whether we are talking about stock markets, computer networks, or biological organisms, individual parts only make sense when we remember that they are part of larger wholes. And perhaps more importantly, those wholes can take on behaviors that are strikingly different from that of their pieces. Miller, a leading expert in the computational study of complex adaptive systems, reveals astounding global patterns linking the organization of otherwise radically different structures: It might seem crude, but a beehive's temperature control system can help predict market fluctuations and a mammal's heartbeat can help us understand the "heartbeat" of a city and adapt urban planning accordingly. From enduring racial segregation to sudden stock market disasters, once we start drawing links between complex systems, we can start solving what otherwise might be totally intractable problems. Thanks to this revolutionary perspective, we can finally transcend the limits of reductionism and discover crucial new ideas. Scientifically founded and beautifully written, A Crude Look at the Whole is a powerful exploration of the challenges that we face as a society. As it reveals, taking the crude look might be the only way to truly see.

Computational Complexity

Author : Sanjeev Arora
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521424267
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Computational Complexity written by Sanjeev Arora and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and classical results in computational complexity, including interactive proofs, PCP, derandomization, and quantum computation. Ideal for graduate students.

Simply Complexity

Author : Neil Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780740492
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Simply Complexity written by Neil Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new branch of science which will reveal how to avoid the rush hour, overcome cancer, and find the perfect date What do traffic jams, stock market crashes, and wars have in common? They are all explained using complexity, an unsolved puzzle that many researchers believe is the key to predicting - and ultimately solving - everything from terrorist attacks and pandemic viruses right down to rush hour traffic congestion. Complexity is considered by many to be the single most important scientific development since general relativity and promises to make sense of no less than the very heart of the Universe. Using it, scientists can find order emerging from seemingly random interactions of all kinds, from something as simple as flipping coins through to more challenging problems such as predicting shopping habits, the patterns in modern jazz, and the growth of cancer tumours.