#Jury Research

[focuslitigation]

In this new era of electronic data dumping, today’s cases are weighed down by the enormous cost, time, and burden of written and oral discovery.

[tam--lin]

In light of increasing anti-trans and anti-abortion laws in the United States, I am once again humbly requesting you inform yourself about jury nullification, your ability as a juror to vote against convicting people being prosecuted under unjust laws. Nullification was instrumental in legalizing abortion in Canada - it informed jurors can use it to help protect healthcare workers and protesters in the US, too.

[essektheylyss]

Also I am still laughing about Matt's answer for Essek in a different person's body being someone who has a lower profile so he can do his research. Validation for me personally 😌

[bobcat-pie]

HOWM'ST THE FUCCCCCK DID IT TAKE ME THIS LONG TO LEARN ABOUT THE TEXAS BLIND SALAMANDER

I HAVE BEEN OBSESSED WITH OLMS FOR YEARS KNOWING THAT I'LL PROBABLY NEVER SEE ONE SINCE I DON'T HAVE THE WILL TO TRAVEL TO SLOVENIA. BUT THERE'S AMERICAN VERSIONS OF OLMS PRODUCED BY CONVERGENT EVOLUTION.

WHAT A WORLD!!!

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL WORLD!!!!!!!

[cappurrccino]

tragic that the way to get respected in the academic world is to have a doctorate to your name bc i am. lacking the mental fortitude and confidence required to get a phd

[pia-writes-things]

We love giving our master's pre-thesis to our apprenticeship tutor so they can proofread it, and all they have to say is that's it's "too political" and "too controversial", that I should "censor" (no jokes, they used that word) the extract of my field diary that's in it, that I should delete or rewrite one of my hypothesis and, finally, that interviewing teachers for my research is "too delicate".

[the-busy-ghost]

On the whole I think it's incredibly productive for historians (and indeed any other occupation) to think critically about what they do and why, and whether their discipline is fundamentally worthwhile or whether our methods even meet the critical and moral standards we use to govern the rest of our lives.

On the other hand, I live in a country where jury duty is one of the most important duties incumbent on a citizen and, though random, not a statistically unlikely possibility. So I'm starting to get a bit tired of having to defend the choice to spend my time developing advanced source criticism skills rather than, say, learning how computers work.

Learning both would be ideal, but I'm only one person. Equally the distant possibility that I might have to serve on a jury one day was not the reason I got into history nor is it a major motivation for doing it now, but hey whatever weird thing it was that got me interested, technically I'm learning some skills that could come in handy one day and doing something is always better than sitting around doing nothing. Nor am I saying that historians (or other people in the arts and humanities) are going to be any better at being jury members than the next person (since biases crop up where you least expect and historians as weird as the next person), and let's face it I already routinely fail to use my critical thinking skills multiple times every day. But if I have to spend my days doing SOMETHING then hey there are worse things I could be practising.

This is not a coherent point, I'm aware, I'm just thinking through some things because if I don't get it out of my system now I'll be mulling over this all night and I have work to do so that's not an option. Anyway idk somebody asked me earlier about historical method and the nature of factual 'accuracy' and it was such a good question that I still do not have a decent answer for, but if we accept that similar methods of coming to a Conclusion (right or wrong) are used in legal cases which are considerably more important than most of the historical research I engage in (since they're concerned with living people who may suffer the consequences), then I think logically it can't be so terrible to spend my time using and testing those methods even if it's not exactly going to cure cancer.

P.S. It is also very worthwhile to spend time figuring out how computers work, I am not shitting on that, merely suggesting it as an example of a field humanities students often get told they should go into because it's more 'useful'. Maybe it is but considering the nature of truth and how we come to a conclusions when we live in a democracy and have certain civic duties that go along with that isn't exactly useless either. And also, since people are always going to USE history, regardless of whether or not they understand it (see, for example, politicians) it's probably worthwhile figuring out how to conduct historical research effectively.

Idk. I'm going to be on this earth anyway, I'm going to have do something with my time for the rest of my life anyway, there are worse ways to spend it.

[legalbrats]

More pictures of him are attached under the cut

[catzgam3rz]

Ah welcome new honorary American/ j

Oh sweet know I can finally learn what the fabled “pep rally” and “homecoming” are (they are in the same vein as icecream truck in terms of being real to me I guess)

[i-am-dulaman]

Fun little fact about myself: every man I've ever asked out has been straight and every woman I've ever dated has been bisexual.

Apparently queer men hate me but queer women love me??

[someoneimsure]

Objection! Your honor, this is an incorrect statement. As no one knows the identity of Batman, we therefore cannot confirm nor deny whether he is licensed to drive a tank.

[megaerakles]

Got covid for the first time immediately after the public health emergency ends (go figure) and while it’s a pretty mild case it has still ruined what was supposed to be a super fun long weekend after a hard week at work. To compensate I am working on my MOST self indulgent of fic projects in which Tim Drake’s ancestors are secretly from Oz and he and the Batfam get pulled into Oz when Queen Ozma goes missing and Tim’s considered to be the next in line for the throne so they want him to rule the kingdom while they locate their queen. Now the only thing left to figure out is which bats get to be magical when in the magic realm 🤔

[zmeydeva-arch]

leig/h bardu/go: zoya’s weapon of choice are dual axes that she can use to help conduct her lighting while fighting also, le/igh bard/ugo: never mentions her using weapons again 

[cappurrccino]

i know that like. the dream is to just get paid to do whatever you want forever, but on god i want a job where i'm actually kept busy with things that have some sort of procedure and schedule and are a good use of my skills because i am losing my mind sitting here doing nothing

[sluttyten]

🥶

[emeraldcreeper]

It’s super fun to research noncustodial visitation rights (like divorce legal stuff) for a fic you may not end up posting/figuring out if it’s alright to post because of The Mortifications