Duke Law Journal, February 1st, 2005
ABSTRACT
Recently, commentators have applied insights from complexity theory to legal analysis generally and to administrative law in particular. This Article focuses on one of the central problems that complexity theory addresses, the importance and mechanisms of adaptation within complex systems. In Part I, the Article uses three features of complex adaptive systems--emergence from self-assembly, nonlinearity, and sensitivity to initial conditions--and explores the extent to which they may add value as a matter of positive analysis to the understanding of change within legal systems. In P...
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