Complexity Theory and Law

Table of Contents

Contributors

Section I - Law's Complexity

Jamie Murray, Thomas E. Webb and Steven Wheatley, Encountering Law's Complexity

JB Ruhl and Daniel M. Katz, Mapping Law's Complexity with "Legal Maps"

Section II - Complexity and the State: Public Law and Policy

Neville Harris, Complexity: Knowing It, Measuring It, Assessing It

Thomas E. Webb, Asylum and Complexity: The Vulnerable Identity of Law as a Complex System

Section III - Complexity Beyond the State: Human Rights and International Law

Steven Wheatley, Explaining Change in the United Nations System: The Curious Status of Security Council Resolution 80 (1950)

Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis, The "Consensus Approach" of the ECtHR as a Rational Response to Complexity

Anna Marie Brennan, Prospects for Prosecuting Non-State Armed Groups under International Criminal Law: Perspectives from Complexity Theory

Section IV Complexity and Business and Finance Regulation

Mark Chinen, Governing Complexity

Michael Leach, Complex Regulatory Space and Banking

Jamie Murray, Regulating for ecological resilience: A new Agenda for Financial Regulation

Section V - Complexity and the Ethics of Law and Legal Practice

Lucy Finchett-Maddock, Nonlinearity, Autonomy and Resistant Law

Minka Woermann, Complexity and the Normativity of Law

Julian Webb, Regulating the Practise of Practice: On Agency and Entropy in Legal Ethics