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Cartoon depicting a police officer as a cat shining a light on a mouse chained in a room vs. cat in a window-lit room giving a mouse a piece of cheese at a table.

Environments of Justice: Reimagining Interrogation Rooms

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By Spencer Thieme, J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School STUDENT VOICES: The views expressed below are those of the student author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Access to Justice Lab. Crime TV shows—Law and Order: SVU, Criminal Minds, The Wire—are not known for their accurate portrayals of the pretrial system. But credit where credit is due. The one thing they almost uniformly get […]

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Beyond the Bar: Measuring Real-World Legal Judgment

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If law could follow medicine to better the field and those working in it, we could see standardized case tests coming to measure lawyers’ decision-making abilities. That’s the argument made by HLS J.D. candidate Michael Pusic in this bonus Proof Over Precedent post. Multiple-choice case evaluations could objectively assess lawyers’ decision-making, improve training and hiring, and determine best use of legal assistance.

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