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Síťová analýza v právu: Síťové metody a jejich využití pro získávání a vyhledávání právních informací

Title in English Network Analysis in Law: Network Methods and Their Use for Legal Information Retrieval
Authors

NOVOTNÁ Tereza

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Revue pro právo a technologie
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Law

Citation
Web Open access časopisu
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/RPT2021-2-2
Keywords network analysis; legal information retrieval; statistical methods in law; legal visualization
Description This article aims to provide an overview of the use of network analysis methodsin law and to discuss the use of these methods for legal information retrieval. Forthis purpose, it contains the theoretical basis for the functioning of networkanalysis, but the focus of the article lies more in the categorization of ways ofusing this method in the application to legal sources. The purpose of the overviewis to emphasize the differences of this method from other statistical methods andespecially to highlight its advantages. Based on these conclusions, the author dis-cusses the suitability of using network methods for easier and more generally ac-cessible legal information retrieval and suggests some specific methods of hownetwork analysis could help in working with legal information.
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