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Valerie Hans
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Cornell Law School professor working on torts, psychology & law, jury decision-making. Fan of Eagles, Steelers & Niners, which makes some games difficult.

Valerie Hans is an American legal scholar and psychologist. She is the Charles F. Rechlin Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and has been the editor of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science. Trained as a social scientist, her major areas of study are the jury system, jury reform, and the application of social science to law. .. more

Law 64%
Economics 12%

No masks!!

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📣 Out now - Research Handbook on Civil Justice

🖊️ Edited by Anne Bloom, David Engel, and Richard Lorren Jolly

📜 Read first chapter free: elgaronline.com/view/book/97...
📘 Shop the hardback: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

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It's a phenomenal book!!

Who taught your American Jury System course, @unlawfulentries.bsky.social ??

Outrageous!
Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."

New publication & open access; comparing in person and virtual movk juries.

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Thank you Alexi!
Amazing study of difference between online juries and in person from @jurygirl.bsky.social

This is really important for access to justice and making jury service accessible

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Amazing study of difference between online juries and in person from @jurygirl.bsky.social

This is really important for access to justice and making jury service accessible

www.apa.org/news/press/r...
www.apa.org
"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu

Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

Looks like a great panel; thanks for doing it in this difficult moment.

Ok I'm waiting for the Minneapolis Strong jury trials!

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Very helpful context. Thanks for posting. I'm shocked at the high public support for the Kent State shootings!

Interesting!

Good luck! Have you considered a snowblower? We have an electric one.

Important to know about:

False Posts and Altered Images Distort Views of Minnesota Shooting www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...
False Posts and Altered Images Distort Views of Minnesota Shooting
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Excellent letter that clearly explains how the current federal government actions violate our laws. Thank you for coming together to make this statement and I wish you strength in the days ahead.

Both fantastic choices!

Great choice!!

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The Trump administration's immediate rush to vilify ICE's victims and fully exculpate the federal officer perpetrators, regardless of contrary irrefutable video evidence, bespeaks a NO-bad-apples mentality. Or, more directly, ICE brutality is never an aberration. It's the policy. 3/ End of 🧵

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That is not to say that the few-bad-apples excuse was always invoked in the past. For as long as there have been instances of police brutality, there have been people blaming the victims and excusing the perpetrators. But we now seem to have turned a corner. 2/

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🧵I am struck by the near-disappearance from our political vernacular of the few-bad-apples trope. Law-and-order types used to routinely dismiss particular instances of excessive police force as the work of just a few bad apples (ignoring the proverbial wisdom about the bunch). Now not so much. 1/
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Thank you for this statement.
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
Minnesota's state FBI-like bureau is suing Noem. It says before pre-emptively declaring the killing righteous and abandoning the crime scene, feds took exclusive custody of evidence, including "apparently seized cellphones."

MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.
#1 in Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00628) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants (filing fee $ 405, receipt number AMNDC-12575332) filed by Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Filer requests summons issued....
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The jury is made for this. Government crimes. Difficulty trusting officials. The people must decide.
Even as deferential as juries are to law enforcement, what happened to Alex Pretti is so clearly murder that you get this in front of 12 people in Hennepin County and even the cop apologists in the jury won't be able to excuse it. We're in Derek Chauvin territory here.