Just opened a new site at https://l-m-d.net/ln4csr for discussing cross disciplinary cooperation issues when investigating complex situations that result from behavioral risks as propelled by communities of deliberate agents (a subset of complex adaptive networked systems).
An abstract for CCS16
The following astract was submitted to CCS16 by Kunbei Zhang and Aernout Schmidt: Blending Complexity Research Disruptive complex adaptive systems (CASs, e.g. the profiling/social-media complex) put more and more pressures on individual agents’ capacities to act autonomously and responsible. As legal theorists we have some questions here. The foundation of our trade is a conception […] Continue reading → ...
CCS16 Satellite Session on Law and Complexity
Marion Dumas (SFI, USA) and Aernout Schmidt (Leiden University, the Netherlands) are organizing a one-day Satellite Session on Law and Complexity for the Conference on Complex Systems, September 2016 in Amsterdam. The initiative is a follow-up on a discussion about the role of legal theorists in interdisciplinary complexity research teams. The proposal has been awarded and […] Continue reading → ...
A question on a law scholars’ position in complexity science
On November 21, 2015, I attended the launching seminar of the NPCS (Netherland’s Platform for Complex Systems). The occasion seemed important to me. Many of you have contributed to its establishment. So first of all: congratulations! I went there with high expectations of meeting kindred spirits. These expectations were more than met, yet I also […] Continue reading → ...
(P1-6) Institutions – A family of Concepts?
Yesterday we (Tina, Michiel, Carl, Gerrit-Jan and me) had a brainstorm meeting over the peer-reviewed, published article by Michiel on Big Data and what credible bargaining powers consumers can feasibly command in order to be taken seriously while endeavoring to participate in the shaping of privacy contracts, case law and legal rules that protect their […] Continue reading → ...