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A project about access to a municipal procedure

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A project about access to a municipal procedure

A fictional Colombian legal-research project begins with complaints that some residents struggle to use a municipal application process. The draft question asks only how to make everyone happy, while the general objective promises to prove that every current rule is invalid. The proposed method is to count public complaints from one social-media page. The case supplies no actual finding about the governing law or the population affected. Students must formulate a more researchable legal or sociolegal issue, distinguish a normative question from an empirical description and identify evidence suited to each. The exercise does not require inventing an unlawful act, assuming every complaint is true or declaring that online responses represent all residents.

1. How could the issue be made researchable?

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Define the relevant procedure, legal or institutional issue, population and period. A question about how rules and implementation affect access can be investigated without assuming the desired conclusion.

2. What evidence distinctions matter?

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Current legal sources are needed for the normative issue, while appropriately selected records or participant evidence can examine practice. Social-media complaints alone do not establish every legal or population claim.