Patrick Garon-Sayegh, legal science interrogator

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[Patrick Garon-Sayegh, legal science interrogator @JuriScience]

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/

[Patrick Garon-Sayegh, legal science interrogator @JuriScience]

@danwilliamsphil It's also important to consider institutions in practice. If institutions aren't designed to resist knaves, then they will fail as soon as a knave comes along. As in engineering: you build a thing and stress test it to make sure it resists uses far exceeding the norm.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

Humanists should be snobby about the fact that they are stewarding a tradition that stretches back thousands of years rather than doing busy work involving little technical puzzles. Instead they find dumb “research” niches to fill because STEM gave them an inferiority complex.

[Vivre dans la Dignité / Living with Dignity @Vivredignite]

Opinion @mtlgazette
MAID is not a solution for dementia I'm a doctor who cares for Alzheimer’s patients.
Canada is wrong to open the door to advance consent
- Dr. Catherine Ferrier, division of geriatric medicine at the McGill University Health Centre
https://t.co/eGMpdj7zgI

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

Some people think that Learned Hand had the perfect name for a judge. But "Learned" was the judge's middle name, not his first name.

Hand's real first name was better suited for a lawyer: Billings.

[Patrick Garon-Sayegh, legal science interrogator @JuriScience]

@MarkPMancini Yes let’s hope that the Wilson dissent ends up winning more spiritual adherents in the long run.

[Matt McManus @MattPolProf]

One of the enduring characteristics of right-wing rhetoric is to redirect blame for social unhappiness from the practices and institutions left intellectuals usually criticize to the fact that left intellectuals are criticizing...

[Patrick Garon-Sayegh, legal science interrogator @JuriScience]

@ANNVYSHINSKY @stuartbuck1 @AnthropicAI Exactly. And more people would know this if the ABA and friends hadn’t succeeded in the magisterial con of making an undergraduate degree in law appear like a doctorate by simply changing its label to JD. And poof! Lawyers have much fancier business cards.

[Patrick Garon-Sayegh, legal science interrogator @JuriScience]

@CamdenHutchison Carefully studying law as law means carefully studying reasons for their own sake, and not as causes. That’s humanistic. Large swaths of social sciences completely lost their way by trying to ape natural scientific inquiries into causes.

[Patrick Garon-Sayegh, legal science interrogator @JuriScience]

@SpichakSimon @tylerblack32 @TrudoLemmens @mssinenomine Please don’t do too much of this here: Dr. Black doesn’t appreciate being given information that doesn’t confirm his pre-established reasoning patterns.

[Patrick Garon-Sayegh, legal science interrogator @JuriScience]

@potatoslav 🤘

[Seal @Sealsincrisis]

Get rotated fucking idiot. Apex predator my ass

[Patrick Garon-Sayegh, legal science interrogator @JuriScience]

@tylerblack32 … are a radical departure from what was previously the case in criminal law.

[Patrick Garon-Sayegh, legal science interrogator @JuriScience]

@tylerblack32 And once again, radical is in the eye of the beholder. The Criminal Code amendments in the pipeline have yet to be unveiled. But there is ample room to say that, considering Carter & the law as it has always been, that the announced amendments…

[Patrick Garon-Sayegh, legal science interrogator @JuriScience]

@tylerblack32 …from having things done to them*.
All this, I hope, gives you a better sense of what is at issue. If not, well, I guess the conversation will need to continue (some other time because I’m taking a break).

[Patrick Garon-Sayegh, legal science interrogator @JuriScience]

@tylerblack32 … Euthanasia is not non-treatment, it is a treatment; you are doing something to the person. A key point in Carter is that people must be able to consent when that doing is done to them, in a context where not-doing is the default *to protect people…