Joseph Hickey

• Simple models of the formation and evolution of social hierarchy
• Network models of social hierarchy
• Structure and evolution of legal citation networks
• Propagation of legal principles in citation networks

• "Self-organization and time-stability of social hierarchies" (scientific article)
• "How societies form and change: a physics model of social hierarchy" (popular science essay)
• "Modelling judicial decision making as a random Boolean network: an exploratory first look" (term paper)

I defended my PhD thesis "A Complex Systems Study of Social Hierarchies and Jurisprudence" in August 2019. 

• "Self-organization and time-stability of social hierarchies", Conference on Complex Systems (2018)
• "Characterizing the evolution of Canadian family law using citation network clustering", Conference on Complex Systems (2018)
• "Expectation-maximization clustering reveals evolution of jurisprudence in Canadian defamation law", Conference on Complex Systems (2016)
• "Citation networks in law: detection of hierarchy and identification of key events", Canadian Association of Physicists Annual Congress (2016)
• "Modeling judicial decision making as a random Boolean network: An exploratory first look", Statistical and Computational Challenges in Networks and Cybersecurity Workshop (2015) (poster)

• J. Hickey, L. Campbell, and J. Davidsen, "How do landmark judgments and statutory changes influence the amount and subject of litigation? Citation network analysis of Canadian court decisions" (submitted)
• J. Hickey and J. Davidsen, "Self-organization and time-stability of social hierarchies", PLoS ONE 14(1): e0211403 (2019)
• J. Hickey and I. L'Heureux, "Classical nucleation theory with a radius-dependent surface tension: a 2-D lattice gas automata model", Phys. Rev. E 87, 022406 (2013)

• "University of Calgary researchers create physics model of society", by Mark Lowey, UToday

• Faculty of Graduate Studies Entrepreneurship & Innovation Award
• NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral)

joseph.hickey (at) ucalgary.ca