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Record W2269829673

Teaching International Humanitarian Law at U.S. Law Schools

2008· article· en· W2269829673 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Bjorn C. Sorenson

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInternational Law and Human Rights
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInternational humanitarian lawLawPolitical scienceSubject (documents)International lawRelevance (law)AccreditationGeneva Conventions
DOInot available

Abstract

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International humanitarian law (IHL) is a set of rules which seek, for humanitarian reasons, to limit the effects of armed conflict. It protects persons who are not or are no longer participating in the hostilities and restricts the means and methods of warfare. IHL is also known as the law of war or the law of armed conflict. In the aftermath of 9/11, IHL has begun to resonate more widely with students and faculty as a subject of relevance and interest at law schools throughout the United States. Many topics related to this important branch of law - such as treatment of persons detained due to armed conflict, as highlighted by the revelations of abuse at Abu Ghraib - have emerged at the forefront of debate and learning in academic circles and national discourse. Yet coverage of IHL in U.S. law schools is still limited and, while interest is growing, many schools have not actively or systematically accommodated that interest. In the fall of 2006, American University Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (WCL) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation to the U.S. and Canada partnered to conduct research to assess the extent to which IHL is currently taught at accredited law schools in the United States, if at all, to gauge the level of interest in IHL and to identify specific ideas to increase coverage of the subject.

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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)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.013
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.040
Threshold uncertainty score0.134

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.013
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.004
Science and technology studies0.0130.007
Scholarly communication0.0110.006
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0040.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0400.010

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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.267 · 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 designNot applicable
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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Published2008
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