Cartographies of the Legal World. Rise and Challenges of Visual Legal Analytics

Abstract

In recent years, together with the adoption of data driven approaches and the development of computational heuristics, visualization has become part of a process that is gradually changing methods of social sciences. In this paper we present some applications of visual computing in the legal science and practice. After a brief introduction to the rise and challenges of what we define as Visual Legal Analytics, we briefly sketch the results of three research projects dealing with visualization at the boundaries between law and computer science discussing their objectives, advantages and perspectives.