Network Analysis Formalism and the Construction of a Traceability System for Payments. A Sketch of Its Legal and Sociological Aspects

• Autore: Guglielmo Feis
• Pagine: 281-282

Network Analysis Formalism and the Construction

of a Traceability System for Payments.

A Sketch of Its Legal and Sociological Aspects

GUGL IEL MO FEI S∗

SUMM ARY:Introduction – Part I: Philosophical Motivations: Law & Informatics To-

wards a Network Analysis Formalism (NAF) – 1. Method and Organization of Part

I – 2. The Relationship between the Theoretical Framework of NAF and the Applied

Example of the TS for Payments – 3. The Theoretical Framework of Network Analy-

sis Formalism (NAF) – 3.1. The Possible Objection of Killing Legal Activities through

NAF and a Reply – 4. Conclusions on NAF – Part II: Introducing the Problem of the

Traceability System (TS) – 5. Method and Organization of Part II – 5.1. Some Lexicon

– 6. The General Principle – 6.1. Presuppositions of the General Principle – 7. The Ap-

plied Principle – 7.1. Presuppositions of the Applied Principle and its Consequences –

7.2. Going Forward Social Consequences – 7.3. Going Forward Legal Consequences –

8. Implementing the Applied Principle: Data Mining and Database Organization

– 8.1. Introducing the Asymmetry – 8.2. The Mining Problem – 9. Case Studies:

Recorded Future and Tassa.li – 9.1. Tassa.li – 9.2. Recorded Future – 10. Security –

11. Conclusions on the TraceabilitySystem – 12. General Conclusions

INTRO DUC TIO N

This paper is two-folded: in the f‌irst part, I will approach the theoretical

problem of the relationships between law and computational social sciences,

putting forward a framework that I call network analysis formalism (NAF);

in the second part, I will discuss an applied problem concerning the technical

and legal aspects of developing a full traceability system (TS) for payments

and investigate this problem backward and forward on the temporal axis.

The second part can be seen as an example of the NAF framework pre-

sented in the f‌irst part that shows how the theoretical proposal of the so-

ciologically aware weak formalism – NAF – can be used to solve some real

life legal problems, in the present case, the ones related with structuring a

system to track all the economical transactions.

∗The Author is a PhD student of Philosophy of law at the State University of Milan

(Italy).

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