When scholarship changes the law
Western scholars helped shape a landmark intimate-partner-violence ruling by bringing research into the legal record.
Research has a different kind of afterlife when it enters a courtroom. The Western scholars behind this work helped make lived experience and evidence harder to dismiss in a legal setting.
It is a clear example of public scholarship: the work travels beyond campus, changes the terms of a decision and leaves a trace in the institutions that follow.
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