Complexity Theory and Law

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.

• Table of ContentsContributorsSection I – Law’s ComplexityJamie Murray, Thomas E. Webb and Steven Wheatley, Encountering Law’s ComplexityJB Ruhl and Daniel M. Katz, Mapping Law’s Complexity with "Legal Maps"Section II – Complexity and the State: Public Law and PolicyNeville Harris, Complexity: Knowing It, Measuring It, Assessing ItThomas E. Webb, Asylum and Complexity: The Vulnerable Identity of Law as a Complex SystemSection III – Complexity Beyond the State: Human Rights and International LawSteven 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 ComplexityAnna Marie Brennan, Prospects for Prosecuting Non-State Armed Groups under International Criminal Law: Perspectives from Complexity TheorySection IV Complexity and Business and Finance RegulationMark Chinen, Governing Complexity Michael Leach, Complex Regulatory Space and Banking Jamie Murray, Regulating for ecological resilience: A new Agenda for Financial RegulationSection V – Complexity and the Ethics of Law and Legal PracticeLucy Finchett-Maddock, Nonlinearity, Autonomy and Resistant LawMinka Woermann, Complexity and the Normativity of LawJulian Webb, Regulating the Practise of Practice: On Agency and Entropy in Legal Ethics