Lab
Judgment & Legitimacy Lab
For making contested value public, structured, and discussable.
Institutional Problem
The Judgment & Legitimacy Lab develops methods from JUDGE ME for situations where value conflict must be publicly heard, tested, and adjudicated.
Research Focus
The Judgment & Legitimacy Lab begins from the structure of JUDGE ME. The work showed that judgment is not only an opinion or outcome. It is a social structure made of roles, evidence, authority, testimony, accusation, defence, spectatorship, jury, verdict, criteria formation, and unresolved judgment.
The lab studies how contested values can be staged without being flattened into false objectivity. It asks how institutions might make judgment visible, how criteria are formed, how legitimacy is granted or withheld, and how those systems enter the subject as shame, aspiration, self-assessment, and conflict.
The lab can inform public hearings, review sessions, jury-based debates, value conflict workshops, and governance experiments. Future institutional formats may draw on the Judgment & Legitimacy Lab, including methods developed from JUDGE ME.
Formats
- Public adjudication
- Dispute frame
- Claimant and defendant roles
- Witnesses
- Expert witnesses
- Dynamic jury
- Criteria formation
- Authorial rupture
- Unresolved closure