Jacques Verrier has posted two visualizations of the French Code civil:
- Code civil – Cartographie [a video showing the evolution of the Code civil by means of network graphs]
- Code civil des Français [a network graph of the structure of the Code civil linked to the full text of the code]
According to the Code civil des Français “Aide” screen, the source of that visualization is the version of the Code civil that is available on Legifrance, the official French open legislation service. Verrier continues:
Un noeud représente un texte de loi (un article, une loi, un décret ou même une ordonnance) et deux textes sont connectés si l’un cite l’autre, le modifie, ou le créé. Le graphe contient donc tous les articles du code civil plus d’autres textes juridiques qui s’y rapportent. [...] Ce graphe est une exemple de réseau “invariant d’échelle” ou la distribution des liens suit une loi de puissance.
According to the Code civil des Français “Aide” screen:
Le graphe a été spatialisé avec Gephi et l’interface utilise sigmajs et jQuery.
These visualizations were presented at OLDP 2012: Open Legislative Data in Paris: A Conference of the Third Kind with Hacktivists and Academics, held 6-7 July 2012, at Sciences Po, Paris, France.
For more information, please see the post entitled Lexmex : “voir la loi” at L’Atelier de Cartographie, and the Code civil des Français “Aide” screen.
It may be useful to compare these visualizations with those created by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz of the Michigan State University College of Law and Michael J. Bommarito II of Computational Legal Studies:
- The Development of Structure in the Citation Network of the United States Supreme Court
- Measuring the Complexity of the Law : The United States Code
- The Structure and Complexity of the United States Code
- The Structure of the United States Code
HT @LaNetscouade.
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