---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rosa FIGUEIREDO <rosa.figueiredo@univ-avignon.fr> Date: 12 May 2017 at 11:16 Subject: [RO] Séminaire à Avignon le 29 mai : Patrick Doreian, "The signed US Supreme Court citation networks" To: gdrro <gdrro@services.cnrs.fr> Bonjour à tous, Vous êtes cordialement invités à participer au séminaire "*The signed US Supreme Court citation networks*", présenté par Patrick DOREIAN, Department of Sociology - University of Pittsburgh http://www. sociology.pitt.edu/person/patrick- <http://www.sociology.pitt.edu/person/patrick-doreian>doreian <http://www.sociology.pitt.edu/person/patrick-doreian> *- Date :* lundi 29 mai 2017 de 10h30 à 12h30 (présentation de 45 minutes suivie d'échanges avec le public) *- Lieu : *salle 0E31, campus Hannah Arendt, Université d'Avignon *- Langue : *anglais Patrick DOREIAN est professeur de sociologie et de statistiques à l’Université de Pittsburgh, où il occupe la chaire du département de sociologie. Il est l’éditeur du Journal of Mathematical Sociology depuis 1982, et il est membre du comité éditorial du journal Social Networks depuis 2003. Il a été professeur centennial à la London School of Economics en 2002, et professeur invité à l’Université de California-Irvine ainsi qu’à l’université de Ljubljana. Son activité de recherche porte sur les réseaux sociaux, la sociologie mathématique, les réseaux inter-organisationnels, la sociologie environnementale, et les mouvements sociaux. *- Résumé : * *US Supreme Court decisions cite early decisions made by the Court. As such, it is viewed as a directed unsigned network. While this network has been useful for studying links between decisions and the historical contexts when decisions were made, it is incomplete. There is one clear way in which negative ties are created between decisions. When a decision overturns an earlier decision, the earlier decision is repudiated as having legitimacy. If the earlier decision is overturned completely it is repudiated totally. When it is overturned in part, then only parts of the prior decision are repudiated. * *Overturning of decisions is usually studied by using separate pairs of decisions. The approach taken here is to study the network of overturning and overturned decisions. This network is more complicated than a set of pairs of decisions. Decisions can be overturned multiple times. One decision can overturn multiple earlier decisions. Separate components of linked decisions have intriguing structures. Also, over turned decisions have been cited as precedent! These components are one focus of this presentation with the intent of understanding how they arise and what motivates the decision of the Court to undo earlier decisions. * *A second focus is to examine the rates at which specific Courts overturn prior courts defined in terms of their Chief Justices. This is a valued network. In particular, the rates of overturnings between pairs of Courts are studied to see if the rationales for overturnings are legal, political or driven by consistency principles.* * To study these issues, a unique data set was constructed for all pairs of overturning and overturned decisions for the period 1789 through 2005. All the consulted sources were incomplete, some seriously so.* *Inscription gratuite mais obligatoire à l'adresse suivante *: http://the-signed-us-supreme-court-citation-networks.evenium.net Merci de bien vouloir faire suivre cette invitation aux personnes qui pourraient être intéressées. *(affiche en pj)* Bien cordialement, ==================================== Rosa Figueiredo, Ph. D. Assistant professor in computer science. http://lia.univ-avignon.fr/personnel/figueiredo-rosa LIA - CERI Université d'Avignon, FRANCE Téléphone: +33 4 90 84 3573 <04%2090%2084%2035%2073> ==================================== ---- Ce mail a été diffusé par l'intermédiaire de la Liste RO du GDR RO http://gdrro.lip6.fr