Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 528 Plunder
The part that was... plagiarized was written by the plaintiff, Mikiko herself? !Many of the spectators at the scene showed expressions of extreme surprise.They did not expect that the subsequent development of this lawsuit would be so unexpected.The annotations to those four papers do indicate that these papers are the result of research projects.And the list of members of the scientific research project in the hands of the plaintiff's lawyer did have Mikiko's name written on it.

Then, the question becomes——

If a doctoral student uses the results of a scientific research project he has participated in in his thesis, is it plagiarism?

In this way, just as the fabrication of experimental data involved in the first paper is actually a problem of experimental outsourcing, the so-called coincidence results of the paper detection are actually Mikiko's participation in the above scientific research projects.The problem gets quite complicated.

The Beiyuan lawyer in the court brought the uncertainty that had almost disappeared into the trial again.

Takezawa's brows were already tightly knit unconsciously.Of course she expected that Beiyuan would attack from this point.She and Asakurahiko had noticed this fact that was not good for them before.At that time, their idea was to find the host professors of these projects to come up with a "Statement", providing testimony in favor of the university.But in the face of the lawsuit, all the professors are still afraid, and all of them would rather stay out of the matter than contribute.

After all, it does itself no good to provide such a testimony to the university.

On the contrary, there is also the risk of being involved in litigation.

These people, each and every one of them are really calculating, and they have clearly calculated all the benefits and costs inside and out.

"Chief referee." Bei Yuan looked at the referee's seat and said further, "From the materials submitted by the plaintiff's agent just now, it can be seen that there is indeed a major doubt about whether the paper involved in the case is plagiarized. Whether it is the problem of outsourcing experiments or using the results of scientific research projects These questions can be used to prove why the expert group only obtained a weak majority on whether Mei Xizi’s behavior constituted serious academic misconduct. Under such circumstances, Kyoto University did not further investigate the relevant facts but directly deprived my client Mei Xizi Ph.D. degree. The decision lacks sufficient factual basis!"

"Chief referee!" Takezawa immediately stood up and retorted: "The plaintiff's attorney's argument is completely wrong. In fact, as far as the identification of plagiarism is concerned, the academic community has its own identification standards. In order to protect science For the interests of the community and the promotion of the ethical integrity of the scientific research community, as far as the academic community is concerned, as long as the source is not indicated, it should be considered as plagiarism, and then commit academic misconduct.”

Zhu Ze's voice continued, "Without marking and citing, it is tantamount to claiming other people's academic achievements as their own. This kind of behavior is a kind of blatant theft and plunder in the academic world!"

"I would like to draw the attention of the defendant's attorney." Kitahara said abruptly, like a cold arrow shot out of nowhere, "Just now, did the defendant's attorney say that the plaintiff, Mikiko, claimed other people's academic achievements as her own?"

A sudden rhetorical question.

However, before giving the other party a chance to answer, Kitahara immediately said: "The plaintiff, Mikiko, did not take other people's academic achievements as her own. On the contrary, she used her own scientific research achievements. Indeed, the plaintiff's attorney knew that in the There is also a so-called 'self-plagiarism' in academia. That is to say, if a person quotes his own work without indicating the source, it will constitute so-called plagiarism."

"However, I would like to ask everyone here to think about it. Compared with plagiarizing other people's research results, citing your own scientific research results without standardization is a relatively less harmful behavior. The harm caused by self-plagiarism is mainly It lies in the repeated publication of relevant results. Although Mei Xizi used the content written by herself in the past, compared with the four scientific research project papers, the involved paper still put forward an academic point of view different from the four scientific research project papers. It did not repeatedly publish relevant Academic Achievements."

"Under such circumstances, do we have to deprive my client of his doctorate because of such an incident, and completely ruin the future of such a young man. The plaintiff's attorney never thought that my client did not make a mistake. The question is whether the errors she made were really bad enough to justify revoking her Ph.D. It is not easy to produce an outstanding Ph.D. Give it to my client?!"

Beiyuan's voice carried an inexplicable magical power.

In the past, this lawyer, who seemed to be a bit of a fool, was actually full of emotion at this moment.The words are full of sympathy and pity for a young doctoral student, and the words are sincere. He is obviously just a young man, but at this moment he seems to be transformed into a respected elder, pleading for the younger generation who made a mistake.

Under the influence of Beiyuan's voice, for a while, many citizens in the court also showed some expressions of pity for Mikiko.Many citizens whispered to each other and talked about it.

"Yes, the lawyer seems to be right."

"That's true. If you say that you are copying other people's papers, it is still a bad thing. But after all, she is only using the papers she wrote."

"Is the university a little too harsh?"

"Yes, and in public media reports, saying so about its students."

"Where's her mentor?"

"That's right, where is her mentor. Her mentor must have known about participating in these scientific research projects."

"Why is her mentor unwilling to intercede for her?"

Takezawa looked at Beiyuan's expression in front of him, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.As a professional lawyer, I also have previous experience in the civil service.She fully knew that what Bei Yuan said just now was a complete performance.That tone of voice, that kind of sensationalism just right, and the precise control of facial muscles.It's completely meticulously designed, and it's actually pretending to be so earnest.

However, for such a set of performances, there is no good way to deal with it.

Takezawa thought quickly, then stood up immediately, trying to suppress the lawyer in front of him, and said, "Chief referee, the other party's argument is completely untenable. The plagiarized papers involved in the case are the results of scientific research projects as the plaintiff's attorney said. And the plaintiff The list of scientific research project members presented by the attorney himself has shown that each of the scientific research projects related to the four plagiarized papers has more than 10 members. In other words, these people have made contributions to the papers. The results of these scientific research projects are by no means Mikiko's 'self-plagiarism' as claimed by the plaintiff's attorney. On the contrary, it is a kind of plundering of the collective achievements of scientific research projects!"

(End of this chapter)