๐งพ A Network Approach to the French System of Legal codes โ Part I: Analysis of a Dense Network(ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ์ ์ฒด๊ณ์ ๋ํ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ์ ๊ทผ โ ์ 1๋ถ: ๋ฐ์ง ๋คํธ์ํฌ์ ๋ถ์)_2011_22 Artificial Intelligence and Law 337_Romain BOULET, Pierre MAZZEGA, Daniรจle BOURCIER
[Original Paper(๋ ผ๋ฌธ ์๋ณธ)]
[Paper Summary(๋ ผ๋ฌธ ์์ฝ)]
1. Key Concepts(์ฃผ์ ๊ฐ๋ )
โ Legal Network
The study conceptualizes the French legal system as a network of legal codes connected through explicit citation relationships. Instead of treating legal codes as independent legal documents, the authors view them as interconnected components of a complex legal system.
(๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ช ์์ ์ธ ์ธ์ฉ ๊ด๊ณ(explicit citation relationships)๋ก ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ค์ ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ํํจ. ์ ์๋ค์ ๊ฐ ๋ฒ์ ์ ์๋ก ๋ ๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ๋ฌธ์๋ก ๋ณด์ง ์๊ณ , ๋ณต์กํ ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ฑํ๋ ์ํธ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋ ์์๋ค(interconnected components)๋ก ์ดํดํจ)
โ Dense Network
The French Legal Codes (FLC) network is characterized by an exceptionally high density of citation links, distinguishing it from typical social or technological networks. The large number of interconnections suggests that legal codes operate as an integrated system rather than isolated units.
(ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ์ (French Legal Codes, FLC) ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๋์ ์ธ์ฉ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ๋ฐ๋(citation link density)๋ฅผ ํน์ง์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฌํ ํน์ฑ์ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์ฌํ ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ ๊ธฐ์ ๋คํธ์ํฌ์ ๊ตฌ๋ณ๋จ. ์ด์ฒ๋ผ ๋ง์ ์ํธ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ๊ด๊ณ๋ ๊ฐ ๋ฒ์ ์ด ๋ ๋ฆฝ์ ์ผ๋ก ์กด์ฌํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ํ๋์ ํตํฉ๋ ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ(integrated system)๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ฅํ๊ณ ์์์ ์์ฌํจ)
โ Rich Club
A Rich Club refers to a small group of legal codes with the highest degree centrality that are also strongly interconnected. These highly influential codes form the structural core of the French legal system and possess the highest degree, betweenness, and closeness centralities.
(Rich Club์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ์ค์ฌ์ฑ(degree centrality)์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋์ ๋ฒ์ ๋ค๋ก ๊ตฌ์ฑ๋ ์๊ท๋ชจ ํต์ฌ ์ง๋จ์ ์๋ฏธํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ค ๋ฒ์ ์ ์๋ก๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธด๋ฐํ๊ฒ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋์ด ์์. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ์ด ํฐ ๋ฒ์ ๋ค์ ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ํต์ฌ(structural core)์ ํ์ฑํ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ์ค์ฌ์ฑ(degree centrality)๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ ๋งค๊ฐ ์ค์ฌ์ฑ(betweenness centrality)๊ณผ ๊ทผ์ ์ค์ฌ์ฑ(closeness centrality)์์๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ๋.)
โ Concentrated World
The authors introduce the concept of a Concentrated World, describing a network that combines extremely high density with a highly centralized Rich Club. This structure differs from the conventional small-world network because its concentration of links is substantially greater.
(์ ์๋ค์ Concentrated World๋ผ๋ ๊ฐ๋ ์ ์ ์ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ๋งค์ฐ ๋์ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ๋ฐ๋์ ๊ณ ๋๋ก ์ค์ฌํ๋ Rich Club์ด ๊ฒฐํฉ๋ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ก ์ค๋ช ํจ. ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ ์ง์ค๋๊ฐ ํจ์ฌ ๋๋ค๋ ์ ์์ ๊ธฐ์กด์ ์ค๋ชฐ์๋ ๋คํธ์ํฌ(small-world network)์๋ ๊ตฌ๋ณ๋จ.)
โ Community Structure
Beyond the Rich Club, the network contains communities of legal codes that exhibit stronger internal citation relationships than external ones. These communities reflect the functional organization of different legal domains.
(Rich Club ์ธ์๋, ์ด ๋คํธ์ํฌ์๋ ์ธ๋ถ ๋ฒ์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ด๋ถ ๋ฒ์ ๋ค๊ณผ ๋ ๊ฐํ ์ธ์ฉ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ํ์ฑํ๋ ๋ฒ์ ์ง๋จ(community)์ด ์กด์ฌํ๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ(community)๋ ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ๋ถ์ผ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ์กฐ์ง ๊ตฌ์กฐ(functional organization)๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ค.)
2. Research Methodology(์ฐ๊ตฌ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ)
โ Data Collection
The study analyzes 52 French legal codes that were officially in force and codified within the French legal system. Each legal code serves as a node in the network.
(๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ์์ ๊ณต์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ํ๋๊ณ ๋ฒ์ ์ผ๋ก ํธ์ฐฌ๋ 52๊ฐ์ ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ์ (French legal codes)์ ๋ถ์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ์ฌ์ฉํ์๋ค. ๊ฐ ๋ฒ์ ์ ๋คํธ์ํฌ์์ ํ๋์ ๋ ธ๋(node)๋ก ํํ๋จ.)
โ Network Construction
The authors construct a directed citation network in which(์ ์๋ค์ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ง ์ธ์ฉ ๋คํธ์ํฌ(directed citation network)๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถํจ):
- each legal code is represented as a node,(๊ฐ ๋ฒ์ (legal code)์ ํ๋์ ๋ ธ๋(node)๋ก ํํ๋จ)
- each explicit citation from one code to another is represented as a directed edge.(ํ ๋ฒ์ ์ด ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฒ์ ์ ๋ช ์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ธ์ฉํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ๊ทธ ์ธ์ฉ ๊ด๊ณ๋ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ง ์ฃ์ง(directed edge)๋ก ํํ๋จ)
Only inter-code citation relationships are included in the analysis.(๋ถ์์๋ ๋ฒ์ ๊ฐ(inter-code) ๋ช ์์ ์ธ์ฉ ๊ด๊ณ๋ง ํฌํจ๋จ)
โ Network Analysis
The study applies several network analysis techniques, including(๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ๋ค์๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ๋ค์ํ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ๋ถ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ(network analysis techniques)์ ์ ์ฉํจ):
- Density analysis(๋ฐ๋ ๋ถ์)
- Degree centrality(์ฐ๊ฒฐ ์ค์ฌ์ฑ)
- Betweenness centrality(๋งค๊ฐ ์ค์ฌ์ฑ)
- Closeness centrality(๊ทผ์ ์ค์ฌ์ฑ)
- Rich Club analysis(Rich Club ๋ถ์)
- Community detection(์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ ํ์ง)
- Graph visualization(๊ทธ๋ํ ์๊ฐํ)
Three community detection algorithms are employed to ensure robustness(๋ํ ๋ถ์์ ๊ฐ๊ฑด์ฑ(robustness)์ ํ๋ณดํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ค์์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ง ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ ํ์ง ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ์ ์ฌ์ฉํจ):
- Fast-Greedy algorithm(Fast-Greedy ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ)
- Spectral graph partitioning(Spectral Graph Partitioning ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ)
- Walk-Trap algorithm(Walk-Trap ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ)
These algorithms maximize network modularity and identify stable legal communities.(์ด๋ค ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ์ ๋คํธ์ํฌ์ ๋ชจ๋์ฑ(modularity)์ ์ต๋ํํ๊ณ , ์์ ์ ์ธ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ(stable legal communities)๋ฅผ ์๋ณํ๋ ๋ฐ ํ์ฉ๋จ)
โ Hemicycle Representation
To visualize the highly connected legal network, the authors develop a novel hemicycle-like representation based on principal component analysis and the CzekanovskiโDice dissimilarity measure. This visualization reveals relationships among legal codes that are difficult to observe using conventional network graphs.
(๊ณ ๋๋ก ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด, ์ ์๋ค์ ์ฃผ์ฑ๋ถ ๋ถ์(Principal Component Analysis, PCA)๊ณผ CzekanovskiโDice ๋น์ ์ฌ๋(CzekanovskiโDice dissimilarity) ์ฒ๋๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ํ ์๋ก์ด ๋ฐ์ํ(hemicycle-like) ์๊ฐํ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐํจ. ์ด๋ฌํ ์๊ฐํ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ์ ๊ธฐ์กด์ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ๊ทธ๋ํ๋ก๋ ํ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ค์ ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ด๊ณ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ํน์ฑ์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ช ํํ๊ฒ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค.)
3. Key Findings(์ฃผ์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ)
โ The French legal system forms a highly dense citation network.(ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๋์ ๋ฐ๋์ ์ธ์ฉ ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ฅผ ํ์ฑํจ)
The French legal code system is substantially more interconnected than most previously studied complex networks. Its high density indicates extensive citation relationships among legal codes.
(ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ์ (French Legal Codes) ์ฒด๊ณ๋ ๊ธฐ์กด์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ณต์กํ ๋คํธ์ํฌ(complex networks)๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋ ๋์ ์์ค์ ์ํธ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ฑ์ ๋ณด์. ์ด๋ฌํ ๋์ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ๋ฐ๋๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ค ์ฌ์ด์ ๊ด๋ฒ์ํ ์ธ์ฉ ๊ด๊ณ๊ฐ ์กด์ฌํจ์ ์๋ฏธํจ)
โ A Rich Club forms the structural core of the legal system.(Rich Club์ ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ํต์ฌ์ ํ์ฑํจ)
Ten legal codes constitute a Rich Club characterized by the highest degree, betweenness, and closeness centralities. This influential group occupies the central position within the French legal system.
(10๊ฐ์ ๋ฒ์ ์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ์ค์ฌ์ฑ(degree centrality), ๋งค๊ฐ ์ค์ฌ์ฑ(betweenness centrality), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทผ์ ์ค์ฌ์ฑ(closeness centrality)์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋์ Rich Club์ ๊ตฌ์ฑํจ. ์ด๋ค ์ํฅ๋ ฅ์ด ํฐ ๋ฒ์ ๋ค์ ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ์ ์ค์ฌ์ ์ธ ์์น๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์งํ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ํต์ฌ(structural core)์ ํ์ฑํจ)
โ The French legal network represents a new type of network.(ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ๋ฅ ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ ์๋ก์ด ์ ํ์ ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ฅผ ๋ํ๋)
Because of its unusually high density and centralized structure, the authors argue that the French legal code network cannot simply be classified as a small-world network. Instead, they define it as a Concentrated World.
(ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ์ ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๋์ ๋ฐ๋์ ์ค์์ง์ค์ ์ธ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์, ์ ์๋ค์ ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์กด์ ์ค๋ชฐ์๋ ๋คํธ์ํฌ(small-world network)๋ก ๋จ์ํ ๋ถ๋ฅํ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์ฃผ์ฅํจ. ๋์ , ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ ํนํ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ Concentrated World๋ผ๋ ์๋ก์ด ์ ํ์ ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ก ์ ์ํจ)
โ Stable legal communities exist beyond the Rich Club.(Rich Club ์ธ์๋ ์์ ์ ์ธ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ๊ฐ ์กด์ฌํจ)
Community detection consistently identifies two major stable communities regardless of the partitioning algorithm used.(์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ ํ์ง ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์ด๋ค ๋ถํ ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋๋ผ๋ ์ผ๊ด๋๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ์ํ๊ณ ์์ ์ ์ธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ๊ฐ ์๋ณ๋จ)
- A Social Issues community, including legal codes related to social welfare, education, insurance, tourism, and public administration.(์ฌํ ์ด์(Social Issues) ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ: ์ฌํ๋ณต์ง, ๊ต์ก, ๋ณดํ, ๊ด๊ด, ๊ณต๊ณตํ์ ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ค๋ก ๊ตฌ์ฑ๋จ)
- A Territories and Resources community, including legal codes concerning housing, urban planning, forestry, mining, public property, and land resources.(์ํ ๋ฐ ์์(Territories and Resources) ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ: ์ฃผํ, ๋์๊ณํ, ์ฐ๋ฆผ, ๊ด์ , ๊ตญ์ ์ฌ์ฐ, ํ ์ง์์๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ค๋ก ๊ตฌ์ฑ๋จ)
โ Network visualization reveals hidden organizational structures.(๋คํธ์ํฌ ์๊ฐํ๋ ์จ๊ฒจ์ง ์กฐ์ง ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ๋)
The hemicycle representation confirms the existence of these legal communities and provides a clearer visualization of the architecture of the French legal system. These structural patterns had previously remained largely invisible through traditional legal analysis.
(๋ฐ์ํ(Hemicycle) ์๊ฐํ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ์ ์กด์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ(architecture)๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ช ํํ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํํจ. ๋ํ ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ฒ์ ํตํด ๊ธฐ์กด์ ์ ํต์ ์ธ ๋ฒํ ๋ถ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฝ๊ฒ ๋๋ฌ๋์ง ์์๋ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ํจํด์ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ธํ ์ ์์)
4. Conclusions and Implications(๊ฒฐ๋ก ๋ฐ ์์ฌ์ )
โ Conclusions
The authors conclude that the French legal system should be understood as a complex and highly interconnected network rather than as a collection of independent legal codes. Network analysis reveals structural propertiesโincluding the Rich Club, hidden legal communities, and the Concentrated World structureโthat cannot easily be identified through conventional legal scholarship.
(์ ์๋ค์ ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ๊ฐ ์๋ก ๋ ๋ฆฝ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ค์ ์งํฉ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ๋ณต์กํ๊ณ ๊ณ ๋๋ก ์ํธ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋ ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ก ์ดํด๋์ด์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ง์. ๋ํ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ๋ถ์์ ํตํด Rich Club, ์จ๊ฒจ์ง ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ(hidden legal communities), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ Concentrated World ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ํน์ฑ์ ๋ฐํ๋ผ ์ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฌํ ํน์ฑ๋ค์ ๊ธฐ์กด์ ์ ํต์ ์ธ ๋ฒํ ์ฐ๊ตฌ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ง์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฝ๊ฒ ํ์ธํ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ต๋ค๊ณ ์ฃผ์ฅํจ)
The study also introduces new visualization methods that improve the understanding of legal architecture and provide a comprehensive map of the French legal system.
(์์ธ๋ฌ ๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ค ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ดํดํ ์ ์๋ ์๋ก์ด ์๊ฐํ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ์ ์ ์ํ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ํ๋์ค ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ข ํฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ์ง๋๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํจ)
โ Academic Implications
This study is one of the earliest applications of network science to codified legal systems. It demonstrates that graph theory and network analysis can quantitatively reveal the architecture of legislation, extending legal analysis beyond traditional doctrinal approaches. The concept of the Concentrated World also introduces a new network type that may characterize national legal systems, particularly those belonging to the civil law tradition.
(๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ๊ณผํ(Network Science)์ ์ฑ๋ฌธ๋ฒ ์ฒด๊ณ(codified legal systems)์ ์ ์ฉํ ์ด๊ธฐ ์ฐ๊ตฌ ์ค ํ๋์. ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ๊ทธ๋ํ ์ด๋ก (Graph Theory)๊ณผ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ๋ถ์(Network Analysis)์ด ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ(architecture)๋ฅผ ์ ๋์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ท๋ช ํ ์ ์์์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฒํ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ ํต์ ์ธ ๋ฒํด์ํ์ ์ ๊ทผ(doctrinal approaches)์ ๋์ด ๊ณ๋์ ยท๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ๋ถ์์ผ๋ก ํ์ฅํจ.
๋ํ ๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ ์ ์ํ Concentrated World ๊ฐ๋ ์ ๊ตญ๊ฐ ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ, ํนํ ๋๋ฅ๋ฒ(civil law) ๊ตญ๊ฐ์ ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ๋ฅผ ํน์ง์ง๋ ์๋ก์ด ๋คํธ์ํฌ ์ ํ์ ์ ์ํ์๋ค๋ ์ ์์ ํ์ ์ ์์๊ฐ ์)
โ Policy Implications
The proposed network approach can support(๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ ์ ์ํ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ์ ๊ทผ๋ฒ(network approach)์ ๋ค์๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ๋ถ์ผ์ ํ์ฉ๋ ์ ์์):
- visualization of national legal systems.(๊ตญ๊ฐ ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ์ ์๊ฐํ)
- identification of influential legal codes.(์ํฅ๋ ฅ์ด ํฐ ํต์ฌ ๋ฒ์ ์ ์๋ณ)
- understanding of relationships among legal domains.(๋ฒ๋ฅ ๋ถ์ผ ๊ฐ ๊ด๊ณ์ ์ดํด)
- legal codification and legislative management.(๋ฒ์ ํธ์ฐฌ(codification) ๋ฐ ์ ๋ฒ ๊ด๋ฆฌ(legislative management))
- development of navigation and analytical tools for increasingly complex legal systems.(์ ์ ๋ ๋ณต์กํด์ง๋ ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ๋ฅผ ์ํ ํ์ ๋ฐ ๋ถ์ ๋๊ตฌ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ)
The authors suggest that such network maps may serve as a “dashboard” for managers of law and assist evidence-based legal governance.(์ ์๋ค์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ์ง๋(network maps)๊ฐ ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ ๊ด๋ฆฌ์๋ฅผ ์ํ ‘๋์๋ณด๋(dashboard)’ ์ญํ ์ ์ํํ ์ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฆ๊ฑฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ๋์ค(evidence-based legal governance)๋ฅผ ์ง์ํ๋ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ฌํ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์ ์)
โ Relevance to Future Research
The authors emphasize that this study opens new directions for computational legal research. In Part II, they extend the analysis to a weighted citation network, where citation frequency determines the strength of relationships between legal codes. They further argue that network analysis provides a foundation for developing quantitative measures of legal complexity based on both the formal structure and content of legal systems.
(์ ์๋ค์ ๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๊ณ์ฐ๋ฒํ(Computational Legal Research) ๋ถ์ผ์ ์๋ก์ด ์ฐ๊ตฌ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ ์ ์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๊ฐ์กฐํจ. Part II์์๋ ๊ฐ์ค์น๊ฐ ๋ถ์ฌ๋ ์ธ์ฉ ๋คํธ์ํฌ(weighted citation network)๋ก ๋ถ์์ ํ์ฅํ์ฌ, ์ธ์ฉ ๋น๋(citation frequency)๋ฅผ ๋ฒ์ ๊ฐ ๊ด๊ณ์ ๊ฐ๋๋ฅผ ๋ํ๋ด๋ ์ฒ๋๋ก ํ์ฉํจ.
๋ํ ์ ์๋ค์ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ๋ถ์(network analysis)์ด ๋ฒ์ฒด๊ณ์ ํ์์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ(formal structure)์ ๋ด์ฉ(content)์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ๋ณต์ก์ฑ(legal complexity)์ ์ ๋์ ์ธก์ ์งํ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ฐํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ค์ํ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ค๊ณ ์ฃผ์ฅํจ)