Tokyo Barrister: Chapter 252 of the Law Firm Bankruptcy Chapter 252 is published. After Kitahara's words were spoken, the entire court fell silent for a few moments. At this moment, it seemed as if everyone present was involuntarily caught up in a long examination.

According to the rules for awarding doctoral degrees of the Department of Life Sciences, applicants must have two published papers as research results for applying for a doctoral degree. At present, the lawyer denies that these two papers belong to the department on the grounds that they have not been published publicly.

The result of applying for a doctoral degree. Although this may sound absurd at first glance, but... it does seem to be feasible.

When Zhuze heard Beihara's words, she couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. At first, she didn't realize what Beihara meant. After she realized what he meant, even this female lawyer with rich litigation experience secretly took aback.

Surprise. The research results for applying for a doctoral thesis degree must be published publicly, and the two papers involved have not been published publicly. Therefore, they are not considered research results for applying for a doctoral degree. Therefore, the university cannot make a decision to revoke the doctoral degree based on this.

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This may sound like a ridiculous idea at first.

But it happens that the logic is connected one by one.

It sounds impossible to refute.

It would be fine if Mikiko was a student. If something like this happened, she would be expelled for any reason. But Mikiko has already graduated and successfully obtained her degree. This does mean that unless she

There was academic misconduct in the results of the doctorate, otherwise the university would have no basis to expel Mikiko.

Suddenly, Zhuze shuddered.

Wait...when did I begin to gradually agree with the plaintiff's lawyer's point of view?

The female lawyer looked ahead, and for some reason she suddenly felt that this case might not be as simple as it seemed at first. Maybe... maybe they really had the possibility of winning in this case...

However, as soon as this idea came up, Takezawa suppressed it forcibly. She immediately calmed down and said: "The defendant's statement that the paper involved in the project did not meet the requirements for public publication is not correct. The plaintiff Mikiko has already received the document involved in the project.

Acceptance letters for the two papers. The two papers have entered the formal publication process and are just waiting for publication. Therefore, the two papers involved have already been published publicly."

"Oh. Really?" Beihara asked nonchalantly.

Then the male lawyer took out one A4 paper after another from the table behind him and displayed it in front of everyone. It was seen that these A4 papers were a summary of the data of doctoral students who had graduated from the Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University in recent years.

Since these doctorates of science receive public funding, their graduate theses and published research results are made public on the university website to allow them to be supervised by taxpayers.

"Chief Judge," Kitahara said, "The plaintiff's attorney has collected the graduation data of doctoral students in the Department of Life Sciences of Kyoto University in the past eight years. The above data all show the thesis results reported by candidates who have been awarded doctoral degrees.

All are research results that have been published, without exception. This data can show that when the Department of Life Sciences of Kyoto University examines the qualifications of doctoral candidates, its "public publication" standard refers to public publication."

"The plaintiff's attorney is obviously trying to prove the cause." Takezawa immediately retorted: "Those who enter Kyoto University to study for doctoral degrees are extremely outstanding and self-motivated people. It is not surprising that they have published results, which is not enough to prove

The defendant Kyoto University’s review of so-called doctoral research results must be based on publication in journals.”

Kitahara then took out another piece of A4 paper. On this piece of paper was a screenshot of the conversation in the mobile phone line software, which showed the conversation between Mikiko's administrative secretary. In the screenshot, the dialog box showed that Mikiko was asking about the period for submitting her Ph.D.

As for the results, does it have to be published results? However, the reply from the administration above was exactly the word "yes".

"Chief referee," Kitahara said, "What the plaintiff's attorney is showing now is that my client, Mikiko, asked the department's administrative secretary about graduation issues when she was in school. At that time, the administrative secretary replied online that the results during the doctoral studies must be

Only results that have been publicly published in journals can be considered as publicly published. It can be seen that Kyoto University’s definition of “public publication” for the Department of Life Sciences is “publicly published in journals.”

"The plaintiff's attorney is making strong arguments again." Zhuze responded, "The plaintiff's so-called reply is only a private reply from the administrative secretary and does not mean it is an official reply from the college.

Chapter 252: Public

Reply. In fact, in the annotation to the "Research Results Table During Doctoral Study" submitted by the plaintiff, the University Department of Life Sciences has already stated that "research results that have not been published in publications require a journal publication letter."

It fully demonstrates that the university only needs a publication letter from the journal to express its approval for publication before it can be included in the results for public publication."

Kitahara sneered, "However, my client Mikiko did not submit a publication letter to the university for the two papers involved. And the Department of Life Sciences did not pursue my client. In this regard, it should be understood that the university did not submit the two papers involved.

This paper serves as an assessment of the plaintiff Mikiko’s research results during her doctoral studies.”

In an instant, the plaintiff's lawyer launched a counterattack again.

Although Mikiko included two papers in her doctoral transcript submitted to the university, she did not submit a publication letter to the university, which was not in compliance with the rules of the Department of Life Sciences.

The male lawyer brought the issue into a more complicated situation.

Zhuze had already felt that the opponent in front of him was a bit difficult. To be able to do this, the male lawyer opposite him was already very good at making mistakes. However, even so, it was still not enough. Zhuze then took a step forward and said:

"Chief referee. The so-called standard for defining public publication should actually be based on whether the author still maintains considerable control over the manuscript. In academic submissions, once the author submits the manuscript, he basically loses control over the subsequent process.

, in the position of passively obeying the journal’s academic editors and anonymous reviewers. In this regard, from the perspective of control over the manuscript, in fact, from the moment of submission, the paper has already entered the public publication process. Therefore, it involves

The thesis involves academic misconduct and should be judged as academic misconduct involving public publication of results during the doctoral studies, which meets the criteria for revoking the degree. The plaintiff’s attorney’s view is not valid!”

Zhuze once again launched an aggressive attack on the plaintiff.

Suddenly, the entire court seemed to be thundering, with boundless black clouds about to sweep in. It seemed as if densely packed enemy troops on the border had assembled and were preparing to launch a massive attack.

The Kyoto University side once again fired fierce artillery fire...
Chapter completed!