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Legal scholars read statutes, judgments, and other scholars. Trial transcripts are scandalously overlooked. Judgments present a tidy case. Transcripts show cases being made and unmade in real-time. My new paper examines expert evidence in a big telecom case ⬇️ 1/
More on transparency and accountability in canadian euthanasia practice: I was given the link to the CPSO register, indicating an MD’s practice restriction. It has a very broadly worded undertaking & 3 *summaries* of decisions by the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee...
Here’s one of them, don’t have the other handy. But I suspect your concern is that nobody has gone to jail or faced criminal charges. Is that the case? Is it possible that people aren’t going to jail because they aren’t breaking the law?
register.cpso.on.ca/physicia…
... I think the key point is this: What is at stake now is that the terms used in these pieties are open to interpretation. Based on this one example, we see how the system in place can work to keep the interpretations and the interpretive process behind closed doors....
Patrick Garon-Sayegh, legal science interrogator retweeted
We've stolen all your intellectual property and ruined the internet. Now we want your memory. Universal Basic Income is just around the corner.
Sam Altman says its bad that everyone's personal computers are using the world's limited supply of memory chips.
"It’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAMs sitting in their own computer, and being used 5% of the time. Like, you want maximum utilization."
1- My posts weren’t about specific cases; they were about a legal regime. 2- I note that single cases can’t be used to criticize said regime (as they are routinely written off as anecdotes) but can be used as evidence that all is hunky-dory; I find this concerning. And…