A computational approach for the experimental study of EU case law: analysis and implementation

In recent years, the encounter between network analysis (NA) and Law has issued new challenges both on a scientific and application level. If, on the one hand, it is fostering new computational-inspired approaches to visualize, retrieve, manipulate and analyze legal information, on the other hand, it is inspiring the creation of innovative tools allowing legal scholars without technical skills to start dealing with NA and visual analytics on their own. This paper presents an ongoing research project aiming to explore how approaches and techniques at the boundaries between Network analysis, Legal informatics and Visualization can help shedding new light into legal matters. The attention is focused, on EuCaseNet, an online toolkit allowing legal scholars to apply NA and visual analytics techniques to the entire corpus of EU case law.

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