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Legal & Social Analysis

Legal & Social Analysis explores law not only as a system of rules, but as a social and institutional practice. It brings together legal culture, professional practice, public institutions, comparative perspectives, and the ways in which law interacts with language, technology, and social change.

Legal Culture & Practice
Legal Culture & Practice

The Inferential System: How Uncertainty Becomes Certainty

9 October 2026 Ralph Larson

The Inferential System: How Uncertainty Becomes Certainty is a new analytical work by Ralph Larson examining a problem that appears across law, expert evidence, institutional decision-making and artificial intelligence: how systems reach conclusions when complete […]

Legal Culture & Practice
Legal Culture & Practice

The Seattle Lawyer in Madrid | How Do You Litigate Uncertainty?

23 September 2026 Ralph Larson

A Legal & Social Analysis Abstract Uncertainty is not an anomaly in a criminal trial. It is one of its raw materials. Witnesses remember incompletely. Experts work from limited inputs. Documents establish words without necessarily […]

Legal Culture & Practice
Legal Culture & Practice

The Seattle Lawyer in Madrid | Finding the Limits of Psychological Evidence

22 September 2026 Ralph Larson

A Legal Social Analysis Abstract What would happen if an experienced American trial lawyer, trained in the culture of discovery, depositions and expert cross-examination, were placed before the Audiencia Provincial de Madrid in a serious […]

Legal & Social Analysis
Legal & Social Analysis

Right to Repair — When the Law Arrives After the Engineering

16 September 2026 Ralph Larson

From state repair laws and sealed batteries to military maintainability, classic cars and the Trabant: why a legal right to repair may mean little when the product was never designed to be economically repairable. Contents […]

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International Relations & Strategy

From Carlos III to Rota: Spain and the United States, 1776–2026

12 September 2026 Ralph Larson

Two hundred and fifty years of power, strategic ambiguity and systemic coherence. Contents Beyond friendship and hostility A monarchy helping to create a republic The balance of power reverses 1898: the Darwinian moment Innovation without […]

Legal Culture & Practice
Legal Culture & Practice

Speaking Like a Lawyer: Legal Communication in America

22 August 2026 Ralph Larson

Why clarity, conversational writing, and even humor do not necessarily diminish professional authority in American legal practice. Abstract Law has its own language for good reasons. Legal concepts require precision, professional communities develop specialized vocabularies, […]

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