1st Edition
Complexity Theory and Law Mapping an Emergent Jurisprudence
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
Biography
Jamie Murray is Senior Lecturer in Law at Liverpool Hope University.
Thomas E. Webb is Lecturer in Law at the University of Lancaster.
Steven Wheatley is Professor of International Law at the University of Lancaster.
