The European Community of Law and the Communities of Case-law: Understanding legal concepts and processes through the lens of community detection algorithms

Community detection is a set of algorithms developed in network science to find meaningful sub-groups within larger groups. This article (1) outlines and evaluates the method and (2) shows how it can enrich ongoing debates about European integration. To this end, it uses the example of the approxima...

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Published in:European law open 2024-06, Vol.3 (2), p.431-455
Main Authors: Šadl, Urška, Lucía López Zurita, Piccolo, Sebastiano
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accession
Algorithms
Approximation
approximation of laws
case-law
Community
community detection algorithms
European Court of Justice
European integration
Europeanization
Law
Litigation
network approach
Propagation
Research methodology
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Summary:Community detection is a set of algorithms developed in network science to find meaningful sub-groups within larger groups. This article (1) outlines and evaluates the method and (2) shows how it can enrich ongoing debates about European integration. To this end, it uses the example of the approximation of laws, an enduring topic in European legal studies.
ISSN:2752-6135
2752-6135
DOI:10.1017/elo.2024.27