Resolution and Recovery Planning (RRP or “living wills”) is a new regulatory model, requiring new data, new processes, new tools, and new thinking, just as the Securities Exchange Act back in 1934 helped create modern accounting standards and reporting models. A living will is effectively a...

Despite some of the blustery rhetoric attendant to the ongoing market transition, lawyers and the market for legal services are not going away. Lawyers serve integral roles in a wide variety of social and political systems. Their work supports the proper functioning of markets and helps...

Scholars have long asserted that social structure is an important feature of a variety of societal institutions. As part of a larger effort to develop a fully integrated model of judicial decision making, we argue that social structure-operationalized as the professional and social connections...

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MPDIMA) represents the most significant overhaul of the Medicare system since its creation. For many individuals, the legislation represents progress towards providing America's seniors with an optimal degree of...

Complexity science provides a powerful framework for understanding physical, biological, and social systems, and network analysis is one of its principal tools. Since many complex systems exhibit multilateral interactions that change over time, in recent years, network scientists have become...

Acyclic digraphs arise in many natural and artificial processes. Among the broader set, dynamic citation networks represent an important type of acyclic digraph. For example, the study of such networks includes the spread of ideas through academic citations, the spread of innovation through...