Why institutions committed to "inclusion" produce identity-based exclusion.
A companion site for the paper by Seth C. Oranburg.
| Path | Purpose |
|---|---|
index.html |
Landing page |
paper/ |
Full text of the paper |
blog/ |
Commentary and short essays |
activities/ |
Classroom activities and exercises |
learning/ |
Teaching guides and supplementary readings |
inbox/ |
Raw source content staging area |
visualize/ |
Interactive visualization ecosystem |
assets/css/ |
Shared Oranburg style system |
data/ |
JSON data files powering all visualizations |
Six interactive pages in visualize/:
| Page | File | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ExI Legal Universe Map (featured) | authority-map.html |
D3.js force-directed graph of the complete legal authority universe — primary cases, secondary authorities, frameworks, reforms, and theoretical anchors. Pan, zoom, filter, search, and find shortest paths between any two nodes. |
| Disentanglement Matrix | matrix.html |
Interactive 2×2 actor/target grid with case studies loaded from cases.json. |
| Immunodeficiency Dashboard | dashboard.html |
Governance-void metaphor with arc gauges and faction simulation. |
| Legal Connectivity Map | network.html |
Schematic canvas graph of the five primary cases and three frameworks, loaded from legal_logic.json. |
| Reform Roadmap | roadmap.html |
Option-value slider showing why institutions prefer compliance over structural reform. |
| Intellectual Constellation | constellation.html |
Force-directed graph of 2,400 years of governance philosophy surrounding ExI theory. |
All visualizations fetch data dynamically from /data/:
| File | Contents |
|---|---|
manifest.json |
Paper metadata, core thesis, theoretical ancestors |
legal_logic.json |
Five primary cases with full holdings, secondary sources, frameworks |
reforms.json |
Three structural reforms with mechanisms and procedural safeguards |
cases.json |
Five identity-group case studies with empirical data |
constellation.json |
Intellectual constellation nodes and edges |
The authority-map.html page uses a configurable DATA_BASE_URL constant at the top of its script block. When Professor Oranburg's LawJ repository becomes available with a richer structured JSON database, update the constant to point to the raw GitHub content URL, e.g.:
// In visualize/authority-map.html — top of the <script> block:
const DATA_BASE_URL = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Oranburg/LawJ/main/data/';All other visualizations that fetch from ../data/ can be updated similarly to pull from LawJ automatically. The data schema used internally (nodes with id, label, detail.tabs, detail.connections) is forward-compatible with richer data sources.
This site uses the shared Oranburg style system (assets/css/oranburg-style.css), the canonical design foundation across Professor Oranburg's academic sites. It features:
- Dark mode default with light mode toggle (persisted in
localStorageasei-theme) - Color palette: deep navy (
#0A3255), crimson red (#B21F2C), sky blue (#6DACDE), gold (#FFD65C), teal (#B5E1E1) - Typography: Oswald (headlines), Crimson Text (body/accent), Roboto (UI), Roboto Mono (code)
- Responsive mobile-first layout
Drop raw files into the inbox/ directory. See inbox/README.md for workflow details.
To add new authority nodes to the Legal Universe Map, update the relevant JSON file in data/ — the visualization will pick up the new data automatically on the next page load.
© 2026 Seth C. Oranburg. All rights reserved.
This site uses the shared Oranburg design system: the canonical --og- tokens, a shared breadcrumb, and a shared footer, maintained at oranburg.github.io/design-system. Adopted 2026-06-20.