Quantum Legal IntelligenceLAW Research 1(1)

A framework for temporal entanglement in legal citation chains: the proposal that earlier authorities constrain later interpretations across centuries of precedent. The paper defines a weighted, multidimensional authority graph over an allowlisted public corpus, proposes five doctrine clusters — sovereignty, fiduciary, commerce, procedure, and equity — and sets out a predictive argument-strength model for litigation strategy, with the validation that would test it.

Equity & FiduciaryLAW Research 1(2)

A map of fiduciary duty from the English Court of Chancery (c. 1300) to the present. The paper traces doctrinal dilution through citation density, frames the in rem / in personam shift as a structural gap practitioners can use, and models Chancery maxims as logical gates that govern whether an equitable remedy is granted or withheld. Its clean-hands figures are measured on 6,015 full-text equity opinions.

Knowledge TheoryLAW Research 1(3)

This paper proposes Public Corpus Theory — a model treating legal knowledge as having computable structure with 10 measurable properties. Drawing on citation chains reaching back to the Corpus Juris Civilis and an allowlisted public authority corpus, it proposes that doctrine has a periodic structure in which asymmetries point to suppressed, missing or manufactured precedent, and specifies the two-phase protocol that would test its predictive power.

Legal PredictionLAW Research 1(4)

This paper sets out a framework for detecting emerging legal doctrine shifts before courts have explicitly acknowledged the change. It tracks citation graph momentum, cross-cluster bridge formation, and semantic drift velocity across the allowlisted public authority corpus, and works through eight real, dated doctrine shifts to show where the model predicts the signals would have appeared — the basis for positioning before doctrine hardens against a client's position.

Litigation StrategyLAW Research 1(5)

This paper presents a systematic framework for detecting structural weaknesses in opposing legal briefs through citation gap analysis. By mapping an opponent's citation chain against the full authority graph, the system identifies citation vacuums, circular authority chains, suppressed counter-precedent, and coherence failures — then generates the strongest possible counter-arguments derived from the structural deficiencies of the opposing brief itself.

Administrative LawLAW Research 1(6)

This paper defines manufactured administrative precedent — regulatory authority built through citation chains that trace back to agency decisions rather than statutory text or constitutional provision. It introduces the Primary Source Deficit Index (PSDI) to score how much of a holding rests on traceable primary authority, predicts where circular chains concentrate across federal regulatory domains, and maps the constitutional challenge pathways that open after Loper Bright.

Constitutional LawLAW Research 1(7)

This paper sets out a framework for temporal statute decay — the process by which statutes lose traceable constitutional grounding as their citation chains erode. Using citation archaeology on the full authority graph, it defines a two-threshold dormancy test for constitutional claims that keep valid legal foundations but have not been pressed in decades, and a timing model for when to file based on judicial panel composition and doctrine cluster momentum.

Legal TheoryLAW Research 3(2)

The proposition that a corporation is a legal person rests on a citation chain two centuries long. Excavating that chain reveals that each doctrinal layer — from Blackstone's artificial person through Marshall's contract-clause corporation through the Santa Clara headnote through modern corporate personhood — was deposited not on a foundation of first-principles reasoning but on the authority of the prior layer. This paper presents citation chain archaeology as a methodological discipline for legal scholarship: the systematic tracing of every citation supporting a doctrinal proposition back to its primary-source origin.

Legal TheoryLAW Research 3(3)

Legal citation is a signal transmission problem. The originating source emits a signal; each subsequent citation introduces noise at each relay. This paper names the phenomenon — citation density decay — and proposes a metric for measuring it: D = P/(P+I). It proposes that citation density decays as a power function of chain length, works an illustrative example on the canonical equity jurisprudence of trustee fiduciary duty, and argues that equity's in rem character gives the doctrine a basis for resisting this decay.