Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School

Topic Network

How 170 sources connect across 39 topics in 11 dimensions — revealing which issues are most discussed, where structural tensions live, and which sources bridge multiple domains.
By Anthea Roberts and David Wilkins
Visuals and analysis created with Dragonfly Thinking
How to Read This
This network maps 170 sources across 39 topics in 11 dimensions. Large coloured circles are topics, sized by source count. Small dots are individual sources, connected to every topic they address. Use the dimension filters to focus on one area. Toggle bridge sources to highlight works that span 10+ topics. Toggle tension edges to see where the literature holds competing views. Click any node for detail.
170 sources across 39 topics
Dimensions
Node Size
Topic (by source count)
Source (by topic breadth)