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What is the context of this research?

This research will be a continuation of our previous work on social networks analysis in international courts and tribunals, as well as the ArbyX project at Stanford's Legal Informatics Department, an attempt to coordinate information among institutions to improve the possibilities of conflict checks, information disclosure and the understanding of decision-making philosophy and techniques of neutrals.



What is the significance of this project?

Recent developments in the quantitative analysis of complex systems and networks, both social and semantic, based largely on graph theory, will be applied to the study of international justice, a field of research still struggling to come to terms with the challenges and opportunities of the information age. Results, we postulate, can have a decisive impact on how law is studied, assessed and, ultimately, formulated and enforced.

What are the goals of the project?

The main goal of this project is demonstrating the relevance and importance of the proposed techniques, while providing the necessary resources for its adoption by the legal research community at large. In order to achieve it we will create and publish an open access graph database containing structured data from a growing number of courts and tribunals, customized tools, and a detailed log of our own analyses, discoveries and theses.

