I found it frustrating to do legal/policy epidemiology with non-lawyers, because most non-lawyers don't care about or understand the legal idiosyncrasies that can prevent a law from having the effect you think it will.
I was often encouraged to pay less attention to these types of variables.
Says Prof. Scott Burris from @templelaw.bsky.social in #LSA2026 by @lawandsociety.bsky.social soc: Paper looked at ten years of studies of legal epidemiology. Lack of attention to legal variables. Nothing in methods about legal variable and how they got it.
