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Presented by CodeX—The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
Daniel Katz – CodeX Affiliated Faculty; Associate Professor of Law and Director, The Law Lab, Illinois Tech – Chicago Kent College
Michael Bommarito – CodeX Fellow; Adjunct Professor of Law, Michigan State University; Head of Research, The Law Lab, Illinois Tech – Chicago Kent College
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In their paper, our speakers analyzed over 4.5 million references to U.S. Federal Acts and Agencies in companies’ annual reports within Form 10-K filings to build a mean-field measurement of temperature and diversity in this regulatory ecosystem, documenting an increase in the regulatory energy per filing, i.e., a warming “temperature.” Our speakers also find that the diversity of the regulatory ecosystem has been increasing over the past two decades, as measured by the dimensionality of the regulatory space and distance between the “regulatory bitstrings” of companies. This measurement framework and its ongoing application contribute an important step towards improving academic and policy discussions around legal complexity and the regulation of large-scale human techno-social systems.
Speaker:
Daniel Katz CodeX Affiliated Faculty; Associate Professor of Law and Director, The Law Lab, Illinois Tech – Chicago Kent College |
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Michael Bommarito CodeX Fellow; Adjunct Professor of Law, Michigan State University; Head of Research, The Law Lab, Illinois Tech – Chicago Kent College |