Emergent Legal Structures Group

Mission

The Emergent Legal Structures group examines the dynamic interactions of law and other forms of social regulation, both formal and informal, that exist within and interact with complex adaptive social systems. In particular, the group's research focuses on emergence of legal transactional norms as they influence business and social policy, emergence of common law standards in a bottom-up process through courts, the role of judges and other legal actors as "hubs" of legal influence and information transfer about law, the impact of imposing socially-engineered legal regimes on pre-existing complex adaptive systems such as the internet, and international legal structures as self-organizing systems.

Faculty

Ronald J. Allen
rjallen@law.northwestern.edu
www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/fulltime/Allen/Allen.html

Leigh Bienen
lbbienen@law.northwestern.edu
www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/fulltime/Bienen/Bienen.html

Bruce G. Carruthers, Sociology
b-carruthers@northwestern.edu
www.cas.northwestern.edu/sociology/faculty/carruth.html

Anthony D'Amato
a-damato@law.northwestern.edu
www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/fulltime/damato/damato.html

John McGinnis
j-mcginnis@law.northwestern.edu
www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/fulltime/McGinnis/McGinnis.html

Emerson H. Tiller
tiller@law.northwestern.edu
www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/fulltime/Tiller/Tiller.html

Andrea M. Matwyshyn
a-matwyshyn@law.northwestern.edu
www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/clinic/Matwyshyn/Matwyshyn.html