Journal of Communication and Computer 9 (2012) 879-889 Legal Rules and Principles as Informational Vectors in Legal Time and Space Massimiliano Ferrara 1 and Angelo Roberto Gaglioti 2 1. Department SSGES, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria 89127, Italy 2. Medalics Research Center for Mediterranean Relations, Reggio Calabria 89125, Italy Received: March 05, 2012 / Accepted: March 28, 2012 / Published: August 30, 2012. Abstract: This paper describes the basic notions of a model intended to allow for a quantitative analysis of the legal phenomenon of a comprehensive and universal sphere of applicability. It is part of a more general ongoing research project, and it specifically deals with some aspects of the model, such as its partition in legal statics and legal dynamics, non-organic and organic. In effect, we will introduce a series of elementary components of the legal system, the ideas of legal values and legal order, and then the axiological organisms which compose such system, and some concepts about their interaction, even through the use of vector representation. To this end, we will outline the structural features of legal positions, situations, rules and principles, the entities at stake whenever a legal conflict occurs among entitlements and an adjudication process is needed for. Finally, we will define the concept of legal mass, according to its information capacity, distinguishing conceptual mass and gap mass. Key words: Axiology, law, information, mass, vector. 1. Introduction In order to design and implement a mathematical model for the quantitative analysis of law, of a comprehensive and truly universal nature, it is mandatory to shape the framework of any legal device in basic neutral terms. That is to say that the first step of such an experimental attempt consists of the conversion of the legal fundamental mechanisms into logical tools allowing a quantitative and objective analysis of the interactions among factual reality and legal realm. To this end, the most common legal entity in any legal dynamics is the legal rule, though we will be stating that rules are neither the basic legal organism, nor the most complex one. However, once we can describe the structure (statics) and the functioning (dynamics) of a legal rule, one could even try and build Massimiliano Ferrara, Ph.D., professor, research fields: applied mathematics, development economics. Corresponding author: Angelo Roberto Gaglioti, Ph.D., and M.A., research field: quantitative methods for the quantitative analysis of law. E-mail: anghelos@i2000net.it. up a mathematical model for the comprehension, the description and the re-engineering of legal system. This article is therefore part of more general ongoing research project, which will have to be tested and hopefully validated by the scientific community. The most elementary ideas of our attempt have already been expressed in three monographs published by one of the authors since 2004 [1-3], and more recently in a paper at an international conference of Applied Mathematics [4], which took place in January 2012. While we are waiting and longing for feedback about our model, before being able to apply it in an extensive manner, we would like to stress in this article some strategic ideas concerning informational contents of the legal elements in our model, and the informational capacity of the same entities. Such an approach might be applied to information theory, as already suggested by the most recent doctrine on information intelligence [5]. The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 deals with the segments of the model. Section 3 discusses the DAVID PUBLISHING D