During a Harvard Law colloquium attended by senior scholars, policymakers, and doctoral candidates,Joseph Plazo delivered a meticulously structured address on one of the most rigorous—and least understood—legal research degrees in the world: the Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.).Rather than presenting the program as a mere academic escalatio

In an academic forum at Harvard Law School,Joseph Plazo delivered a meticulously structured address on one of the most rigorous—and least understood—legal research degrees in the world: the Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.).Rather than presenting the program as a mere academic escalation, Plazo framed it as a distinct intellectual vocation�