We explore one aspect of the structure of a codified legal system at the national level using a new type of representation to understand the strong or weak dependencies between

the various fields of law. In Part I of this study, we analyze the graph associated with the network in which each French legal code is a vertex and an edge is produced [...]

International audience ; We propose an analysis of the codified Law of France as a structured system. Fifty two legal codes are selected on the basis of explicit legal criteria

and considered as vertices with their mutual quotations forming the edges in a network which properties are analyzed relying on graph theory. [...]

International audience ; We perform a detailed analysis of the network constituted by the citations in a legal code, we search for hidden structures and properties. The graph

associated to the Environmental code has a small-world structure and it is partitioned in several hidden communities of articles that only partially coincide with [...]

In 2007, the European Union adopted a lex specialis, Regulation (EC) No. 1394/2007 on advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs), a new legal category of medical product in

regenerative medicine. The regulation applies to ATMPs prepared industrially or manufactured by a method involving an industrial process. [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis differs in nature from the previous financial crisis and therefore different solutions must be taken. In this context, governments are seeking

to help businesses deal with the effects of the pandemic, which have had the greatest impact on corporate liquidity. [...]

International audience ; Developing research based on the use of biological material raises the question of the sources of the cells. Should we use human stem cells or embryonic

stem cells? For human stem cells, since 1994, the French law considers the human body is inviolable and cannot be subject of property (Art 16-1 of the Civil Code) [...]

The achievement of a radical global reduction of greenhouse gases requires a legal-institutional setting capable of facilitating such a transition on a wide range of renewable

technologies. This paper identifies and critically evaluates the key institutional, procedural and substantive legal mechanisms facilitating or preventing sustainable [...]

This article analyses the legal adaptive capacity for increasing sustainable fish aquaculture production in EU-Finland. Currently, fish aquaculture is driven by increasing

global demand of fish, declining natural fisheries, food security and blue growth policies. [...]

Oceangoing navigation played a major role in the development of the law of the sea during the Early Modernity. The vastness of the oceans precluded straightforward solutions

and stretched to their limit pre-existing ideas concerning the legal status of the sea. [...]

Public and private organizations are increasingly implementing various algorithmic decision-making systems. Through legal and practical incentives, humans will often need to

be kept in the loop of such decision-making to maintain human agency and accountability, provide legal safeguards, or perform quality control. [...]