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Record W1512860480

Ethics Teaching in Law School

2009· article· en· W1512860480 on OpenAlexaff
Alice Woolley, Sara Lillian Bagg

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal Education and Practice Innovations
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSalientMainstreamLegal educationCurriculumVariety (cybernetics)LawTeaching methodMathematics educationLegal ethicsSociologyEngineering ethicsPolitical sciencePedagogyPsychologyComputer scienceEngineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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Since its entry into the mainstream of common law legal education, legal ethics teaching has been analyzed and critiqued by numerous commentators. United in dissatisfaction with what they perceive as an intellectually uninspired, pedagogically unsound and almost universally unpopular approach to ethics instruction, commentators argue for a diverse variety of reforms. Running through these various reforms is, however, a common thread: Good ethics teaching is viewed as separate and distinct from the teaching of “black letter law” in the rest of the curriculum. This paper challenges this assumption. Through analyzing and comparing ethical and legal problem solving, the paper addresses the commonalities in, and salient differences between, the two. It then suggests an approach to ethics teaching which allows instructors to capitalize on the learning which students have (or should have) done in their law classes, while also emphasizing and teaching the unique analytical and other skills which ethical problem solving requires.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.084

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0160.015
Scholarly communication0.0070.004
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0030.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.415
Teacher spread0.379 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2009
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