Walking Finelines between Law and Computational Social Science

The article introduces the relationship between law and computationalsocial science identifying the reasons that make it promising. Besides allowingfor a contact to be made between law and the scientific and applicationopportunities offered by computation and its technologies, this relationshipcan aid jurists in various ways. As a matter of fact, computational socialscience not only offers new research methods that can, inter alia, contributeto rediscovering the social dimension of legal phenomena but also representsa framework for dialogue between law and other scientific disciplines ableto contribute to the understanding of phenomena relevant for the law. Thearticle briefly discusses these questions as an introduction to the Issue andits contents.