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Lin,

Fifteen years ago, Scott Boorman did a network study of statutes citing
each other in the IRS code. His idea was to find the most important ones
and then to come up with "morphogenetic" rules (in his language) that would
allow the average taxpayer to derive the whole code from the knowledge of
both the most central statutes and these rules. I am not sure he published it!

Lise Mounier and I are currently carrying out a longitudinal network study
of judges at the Commercial court of Paris. Here are two publications, if I
may:

Lazega, Emmanuel (2003), "Networks in legal organizations: On the
protection of public interest in joint regulation of markets", Wiarda
Institute Publications, Faculty of Law, Utrecht University.
Lazega, Emmanuel and Mounier, Lise (2003), "Interlocking Judges: On Joint
External and Self-Governance of Markets", in Vincent Buskens, Werner Raub
and Chris Snijders (eds), Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 20:
267-296

Emmanuel Lazega
University of Lille I, France



A 09:12 13/07/2005 -0700, Linton Freeman a écrit :
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>Does anyone know of any studies of network structures in law--citations or
>authorities--beyond these:
>
>Harris, Peter. 1982. "Structural Change in the Communication of Precedent
>among State Supreme Courts, 1870-1970." Social Networks 4(3):201-212.
>
>Harris, Peter. 1985. “Ecology and Culture in the Communication of
>Precedent among State Supreme Courts, 1870-1970.” Law and Society Review
>19(3):449-480.
>
>Thanks,
>Lin Freeman
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