Daniel Martin Katz

Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law

Professor of Law

565 W. Adams St.

Chicago, IL 60661-3691

United States

http://www.danielmartinkatz.com/

Stanford CodeX - The Center for Legal Informatics

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559 Nathan Abbott Way

Stanford, CA 94305-8610

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http://law.stanford.edu/directory/daniel-katz/

Bucerius Center for Legal Technology & Data Science

Academic Director

Jungiusstr. 6

Hamburg, 20355

Germany

http://legaltechcenter.de/

  • Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law

  • Stanford CodeX - The Center for Legal Informatics

  • Bucerius Center for Legal Technology & Data Science

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“  Research Interests include legal informatics, applied legal technology, law & economics, legal & regulatory complexity, artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence & law, machine learning & natural language processing, complex systems, network science, governance, financial regulation, financial technology, quantitative finance, quantitative modeling of litigation and jurisprudence, economics of the professions, blockchain & crypto infrastructure and the overall impact of information technology, analytics and automation on the future of society.  ”

  • Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law

  • Stanford CodeX - The Center for Legal Informatics

  • Bucerius Center for Legal Technology & Data Science

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1.

Quantitative Legal Prediction – or – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Preparing for the Data Driven Future of the Legal Services Industry

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 62, 2013
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 12 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2013
Daniel Martin Katz
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Downloads 5,117 (2,310)
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big data, law, prediction, quantitative legal prediction, legal services, machine learning, algorithmic justice, legal prediction

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A General Approach for Predicting the Behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2017
Daniel Martin Katz, Michael James Bommarito and Josh Blackman
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, Bommarito Consulting, LLC and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 4,872 (2,551)
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United States Supreme Court, Machine Learning, Law and Social Science, Quantitative Legal Prediction, SCOTUS prediction, artificial intelligence and law, online learning, judicial prediction, random forest

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Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate

Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 61, No. 1, August 2011 , CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 26 May 2011
Daniel Martin Katz, Joshua R. Gubler, Jon Zelner, Michael James Bommarito, Eric A. Provins and Eitan M. Ingall
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, Brigham Young University - Department of Political Science, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Center for Study of Complex Systems, Bommarito Consulting, LLC, University of Michigan - Department of Political Science and University of Pennsylvania - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Social Network Analysis, American Common Law, Complexity, Public Law, Sociology of Law, Power Law, Peer Effects, Doctrinal Phase Transition, Legal Academy, Organizational Studies, Computational Legal Studies, Law as a Complex System

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Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States Code

22 Artificial Intelligence and Law 337 (2014)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2016
Daniel Martin Katz and Michael James Bommarito
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and Bommarito Consulting, LLC
Downloads 2,728 (6,776)
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United States Code, Complexity of Law, Legal Complexity, legal entropy, optimal regulation

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LexNLP: Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction For Legal and Regulatory Texts

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 21 Jun 2018
Michael James Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz and Eric Detterman
Bommarito Consulting, LLC, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and LexPredict, LLC
Downloads 1,997 (11,249)
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natural language processing, legal, regulatory, machine learning, segmentation, extraction, open source, Python

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The MIT School of Law? A Perspective on Legal Education in the 21st Century

University of Illinois Law Review, No. 5, 2014
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Oct 2014
Daniel Martin Katz
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Downloads 1,944 (11,713)
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Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 71, No. 3, 2010, U of Michigan Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 08-004, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2010
Daniel Martin Katz and Derek K. Stafford
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and University of Michigan - Department of Political Science
Downloads 1,740 (13,966)
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Network Analysis, Complexity, Judicial Decision Making, Public Law, Law Clerks, Sociology of Law, Power Law, Judicial Peer Effects, Doctrinal Phase Transition, Natural Rehnquist Court, Organizational Studies, Scale Free Network, Computational Legal Studies, Judicial Politics, Law as a Complex System

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Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Legal Complexity

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 101:191, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 15-1
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 19 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2015
J. B. Ruhl and Daniel Martin Katz
Vanderbilt University - Law School and Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Downloads 1,096 (27,940)
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Tax code, Complexity science, Legal complexity

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An Empirical Survey of the Population of United States Tax Court Written Decisions

Virginia Tax Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2011
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 02 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2011
Michael James Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz and Jillian Isaacs - See
Bommarito Consulting, LLC, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Downloads 987 (32,402)
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Empirical Legal Studies, United States Tax Court, Judicial Decision Making, Computational Legal Studies, Network Analysis and Law, Network Dynamics, Text Parsing of Legal Documents, Information Visualization, Citation Network, Tax Litigation

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Law as a Seamless Web? Comparison of Various Network Representations of the United States Supreme Court Corpus (1791-2005)

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2009)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 16 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2010
Michael James Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz and Jon Zelner
Bommarito Consulting, LLC, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Center for Study of Complex Systems
Downloads 941 (34,652)
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computational legal studies, computer programming and law, network analysis, judicial citation networks, law as a complex system, evolutionary graph theory, computational linguistics and law, semantic analysis, supreme court citations, evolution of law

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Law on the Market? Abnormal Stock Returns and Supreme Court Decision-Making

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2017
Daniel Martin Katz, Michael James Bommarito, Tyler Soellinger and James Ming Chen
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, Bommarito Consulting, LLC, Michigan State University - College of Law and Michigan State University - College of Law
Downloads 938 (34,819)
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Supreme Court, securities markets, arbitrage, event study, judicial decision-making, market efficiency, abnormal returns

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Legal N-Grams? A Simple Approach to Track the ‘Evolution’ of Legal Language

Proceedings of JURIX 2011: The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, Vienna, 2011
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 16 Dec 2011
Daniel Martin Katz, Michael James Bommarito, Julie Seaman, Adam Candeub and Eugene Agichtein
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, Bommarito Consulting, LLC, Emory University School of Law, Michigan State University - College of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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N-Grams, Computational Linguistics, Law, Courts, Judges, Evolution of Law, Legal Memes, Time Series

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Legal by Design: A New Paradigm for Handling Complexity in Banking Regulation and Elsewhere in Law

Oregon Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 4, 2015, Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 215-2015
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2022
Paul Lippe, Daniel Martin Katz and Dan Jackson
OnRamp Systems, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and Northeastern University - NuLawLab
Downloads 740 (48,171)
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Legal Complexity, Computable Contracts, Dodd-Frank, Legal Compliance, IBM Watson, Legal Technology, Financial Regulation, Pointable Legal Data Objects, Computational Law

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A Mathematical Approach to the Study of the United States Code

Physica A, Vol. 389, 2010
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 29 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2012
Michael James Bommarito and Daniel Martin Katz
Bommarito Consulting, LLC and Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Downloads 740 (48,171)
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United States Code, Hierarchical Network, Citation Network, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Computational Legal Studies, Physics and Society

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Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law

10 Scientific Reports 18737 (2020)
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 May 2020 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2021
Daniel Martin Katz, Corinna Coupette, Janis Beckedorf and Dirk Hartung
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Heidelberg University - Faculty of Law and Bucerius Law School - Center for Legal Technology and Data Science
Downloads 705 (51,333)
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Complexity of Law, Legal Complexity, Citation Network, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Computational Legal Studies, Physics and Society, Evolution of Law, Natural Language Processing, Legal Networks

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Institutional Rules, Strategic Behavior and the Legacy of Chief Justice William Rehnquist: Setting the Record Straight on Dickerson v. United States

Journal of Law and Politics, Vol. 22, 2006
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2011
Daniel Martin Katz
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Downloads 671 (54,794)

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William Rehnquist, Dickerson v. United States, Observational Equivalence, Supreme Court, Game Theory, Strategic Behavior, Institutional Rules

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Social Architecture, Judicial Peer Effects and the 'Evolution' of the Law: Toward a Positive Theory of Judicial Social Structure

Georgia State Law Review, Vol. 23, 2008
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2008
Daniel Martin Katz, Derek K. Stafford and Eric A. Provins
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, University of Michigan - Department of Political Science and University of Michigan - Department of Political Science
Downloads 541 (72,021)
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Evolution of Law, Judicial Peer Effects, Law as a Complex System, Network Analysis, Judicial Decision Making, Public Law, Doctrinal Phase Transition, Organizational Studies

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OpenEDGAR: Open Source Software for SEC EDGAR Analysis

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Jun 2018
Michael James Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz and Eric Detterman
Bommarito Consulting, LLC, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and LexPredict, LLC
Downloads 508 (77,810)
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SEC, EDGAR, Legal, Regulatory, Finance, Accounting, Data, Opensource, Corpora, Python, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

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Taking State Constitutions Seriously

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 17, p. 295, 2008
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 02 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 31 May 2010
Marvin Krislov and Daniel Martin Katz
Oberlin College and Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Downloads 508 (77,810)

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Direct Democracy, State Constitutions, Constitutional Economics, New Institutionalism, Election Law, Initiative, Federalism, Referenda, Judicial Review

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Crowdsourcing Accurately and Robustly Predicts Supreme Court Decisions

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 13 Dec 2017
Daniel Martin Katz, Michael James Bommarito and Josh Blackman
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, Bommarito Consulting, LLC and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 480 (83,552)
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judicial prediction, crowdsourcing, legal prediction, judicial crowdsourcing, legal analytics, legal data, model thinking, quantitative legal prediction

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Law Smells - Defining and Detecting Problematic Patterns in Legal Drafting

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Oct 2021
Corinna Coupette, Dirk Hartung, Janis Beckedorf, Maximilian Böther and Daniel Martin Katz
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Bucerius Law School - Center for Legal Technology and Data Science, Heidelberg University - Faculty of Law, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam and Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Downloads 413 (99,408)

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Refactoring, Software Engineering, Law, Natural Language Processing, Network Analysis

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Measuring Law Over Time: A Network Analytical Framework with an Application to Statutes and Regulations in the United States and Germany

Frontiers in Physics 9 (2021), 269:1–269:31
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 12 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2022
Corinna Coupette, Janis Beckedorf, Dirk Hartung, Michael James Bommarito and Daniel Martin Katz
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Heidelberg University - Faculty of Law, Bucerius Law School - Center for Legal Technology and Data Science, Bommarito Consulting, LLC and Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Downloads 404 (101,922)

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legal complexity, evolution of law, quantitative legal studies, empirical legal studies, legal data science, network analysis, natural language processing, complex systems

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Distance Measures for Dynamic Citation Networks

Physica A, Vol. 389, pp. 4201-4208, 2010
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 11 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2010
Michael James Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz, Jon Zelner, James H. Fowler and James H. Fowler
Bommarito Consulting, LLC, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Center for Study of Complex Systems and UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
Downloads 389 (106,524)
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citation networks, acyclic digraphs, dynamic network analysis, judicial citations, patent citations, distance measures, community detection, clustering

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LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 05 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2021
Ilias Chalkidis, Ilias Chalkidis, Abhik Jana, Abhik Jana, Dirk Hartung, Michael James Bommarito, Ion Androutsopoulos, Daniel Martin Katz and Nikolaos Aletras
Athens University of Economics and BusinessUniversity of Copenhagen, Language Technology Group, Department of Informatics, Universität HamburgUniversity of Hamburg, Bucerius Law School - Center for Legal Technology and Data Science, Bommarito Consulting, LLC, Athens University of Economics and Business, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and University of Sheffield
Downloads 356 (118,009)

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natural language processing, legal data, legal tech, natural language understanding, evaluation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence and law

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Article I Section 4 of the Constitution, the Voting Rights Act and the Restoration of the Congressional Portion of the Election Ballot: The Final Frontier of Felon Disenfranchisement Jurisprudence?

Journal of Law and Social Change, Vol. 10, 2007
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 15 Feb 2007
Daniel Martin Katz
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Downloads 317 (133,168)

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Felon Disenfranchisement, The Voting Rights Act, Article I Section 4, Elections Clause, Elections, Political Participation

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Properties of the United States Code Citation Network

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 10 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2010
Michael James Bommarito and Daniel Martin Katz
Bommarito Consulting, LLC and Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Downloads 302 (140,315)
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United States Code, Citation Network, Computational Legal Studies, Skewed Distributions, Degree Distribution, Power Laws

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On the Stability of Community Detection Algorithms on Longitudinal Citation Data

Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2010, Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2009)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 04 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 26 May 2010
Michael James Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz and Jon Zelner
Bommarito Consulting, LLC, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Center for Study of Complex Systems
Downloads 277 (153,251)
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community detection, evolutionary graph theory, computational legal studies, citation network, direct acyclic graphs, graph theory, network analysis and law, judicial citation network, network dynamics

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Measuring and Modeling the U.S. Regulatory Ecosystem

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 03 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2017
Michael James Bommarito and Daniel Martin Katz
Bommarito Consulting, LLC and Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Downloads 261 (162,761)
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complex systems, legal complexity, techno-social systems, diversity, regulation, legal science, empirical legal studies, natural language processing

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How Smart Resolution Planning Can Help Banks Improve Transparency, Increase Profitability and Reduce Risk

Banking Perspective - The Quarterly Journal of the Clearing House (Q2 - 2015)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 27 Jun 2015
Paul Lippe, Jan Putnis, Daniel Martin Katz and Ian Hurst
OnRamp Systems, Slaughter and May, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and Global Financial Services at IBM
Downloads 236 (179,474)

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Dodd Frank, RRP, Resolution and Recovery Plan, Living Wills, Machine Learning, Legal Technology, Computational Contracts, Legal Risk

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The Electronic World Treaty Index: Collecting the Population of International Agreements in the 20th Century

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 30 Aug 2015
Paul Poast, Michael James Bommarito and Daniel Martin Katz
University of Chicago - Department of Political Science, Bommarito Consulting, LLC and Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Downloads 166 (246,189)
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An Rx for the Modification of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003: Toward a Reform with Results

Annals of Health Law, Vol. 14, p. 183, 2005
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Feb 2007
Daniel Martin Katz and Monica Deshpande
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 93 (376,155)

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Medicare, Prescription Drugs, MPDIMA, Drug Reimportation, Medicare Part D

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Sensitivity of Collective Outcomes Identifies Pivotal Components

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 06 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2019
Edward Lee, Daniel Martin Katz, Michael James Bommarito and Paul Ginsparg
Santa Fe Institute, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, Bommarito Consulting, LLC and Cornell University - Department of Physics
Downloads 34 (599,741)

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Complex Systems, Social Physics, Political Voting, Information Geometry, Median Voter, Robustness, Sensitivity, Finance