'Introduction' in Elizabeth Sheehy, Ed, Adding Feminism to Law: The Contributions of Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dubé
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Abstract
This book celebrates Claire L’Heureux-Dube’s judicial career and considers the unique ways in which her work as a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada has enhanced women’s equality and a feminist analysis of law, and thus concretely, the quality of life for Canadian women. The papers in this book suggest several themes that stand out from Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dube’s more then two decades on the bench. The first theme is her contribution to the enterprise of judging and its relationship to democracy. Her methodological approach to judgment writing reflects her intellectual curiosity and respect for academic research as well as for the grassroots experience of community groups and organizations. No other judge has so ably demonstrated a facility with a contextual approach to legal analysis or as long a reach to comparative law sources. She has shown leadership to other women in the profession, as well as judges, by her intellectual honesty and courage in unmasking judicial “neutrality” and taking unpopular positions in her judgments. The second theme looks at L’Heureux-Dube J.’s substantive contributions to specific areas of law. This theme traces the doctrinal shifts that her judgments aspired to, sometimes as carefully negotiated majority opinions, sometimes as powerful dissents that were so persuasive to the public that they later reappeared in the form of federal law reforms, and sometimes in lone dissents whose promise has yet to be realized. In this part of the book, the essays interrogate her judgments in the areas of family law, human rights law, the law governing taxation, immigration law, and the law of sexual assault. The third theme examines Claire L’Heureux-Dube’s commitment to women, to substantive equality in our society, and to other rights-seeking groups. This commitment was evidenced by her invocation of substantive equality as the touchstone for almost every legal issue that she analyzed. Here the authors comment upon L’Heureux-Dube J.’s reliance upon understandings of substantive over formal equality, the backlash that her judgments have generated, the influence of her analytical approach in equality jurisprudence on other nations, as well as the advances her judgments marked in the areas of access to justice, lesbian and gay rights, and Aboriginal rights in Canada.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.033 | 0.012 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".