La special issue “Computation, Law and the Net. The Future of Law in the Computational Social Science Era” della rivista “Future Internet” è edita da Nicola Lettieri (Istituto Nazionale di Analisi delle Politiche Pubbliche – Roma), Radboud Winkels (Leibniz Center for Law – Amsterdam), Sebastiano Faro (Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica del CNR), Delfina Malandrino (Dipartimento di informatica, Università di Salerno), Dazza Greenwod (Human Dynamics Lab – MIT).
Qui di seguito il testo della call for paper:
Together with the rise of computational power and the data deluge, the growth of the Internet ecosystem is the driver of a deep change in our lives. We are witnessing a development that not only is reshaping economies, societies and institutions worldwide, but is also impacting the way in which science is done.
According to a growing and heterogeneous literature, the computational social science paradigm is drastically increasing our understanding of social dynamics and our ability to manage social complexity. Seen in this perspective, computational social science (CSS) represents a topic of great interest for the legal world. The law itself is at the same time a social phenomenon and an ordering factor of social life. CSS, on the one hand, promises to shed a new light on socio-legal dynamics, on the other, it is gradually providing innovative tools capable to support public institutions in a series of legally relevant activities spanning from policy design to rule making, from regulatory impact analysis to law enforcement. The use of online experiments, sentiment analysis techniques or agent-based social simulations in the legal world are just a few examples of an uncharted scientific and applicative landscape that is worth being explored.
This Special Issue aims at bringing together contributions discussing research issues at a theoretical level or presenting projects and applications of CSS that can be considered relevant for the legal field.
Informazioni su termini e modalità di partecipazione alla special issue sono disponibili all’indirizzo:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/future_of_law
