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Ronald St. John Macdonald

2007· article· en· W261704488 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Annual Meeting-American Society of International Law · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicBorder Security and International Relations
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHonorTributeSupporterLawInternational lawPolitical scienceHistoryClassicsSociologyGenealogy
DOInot available

Abstract

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As President of the Canadian Council on International Law (CCIL), it is my honor to make this tribute on behalf of the CCIL to Professor Ronald St. John Macdonald, who passed away on September 7, 2006. When Professor Macdonald passed away a few months ago, we in the CCIL lost our founder, our Honorary President, and our most loyal supporter. We also lost our friend. Thirty-five years ago, Professor Macdonald and a small group of Canadian international law scholars established the Canadian Council on International Law to promote the study and analysis in Canada of international legal issues. Professor Macdonald was elected Founding President. He remained a leading member and supporter of the CCIL for the rest of his life. The CCIL held a special session to honor Professor Macdonald at our last annual conference in October 2006. It was a remarkable event. Contributors spoke of the profound influence that Professor Macdonald had not only on international law, but also on their lives, both personally and professionally. It became evident that Professor Macdonald had mentored and assisted many in their studies and careers in international law. We learned that the CCIL was only one of Professor Macdonald's creations, for he seems to have been responsible for launching countless international law careers in Canada and abroad. The CCIL set up a page on its website where members could write tributes to Professor Macdonald. If you have a few moments, you would do well to read through the many essays and comments that tell the story of who was Professor Macdonald in a way no obituary ever could. Professor Macdonald's friends and admirers remembered so many special things about him and had come to know him in so many different ways. Many praised Professor Macdonald as a leading scholar and proponent of international law generally, and human rights law in particular. He contributed numerous articles and essays to various journals and books and was the impetus behind innumerable international law projects. Even during the last year of his life he was collaborating on yet another project he conceived dealing with the human fight to peace. Some spoke of Professor Macdonald as an influential teacher of international law; graduates from Osgoode Hall (1955-1959), University of Western Ontario (1959-1961), University of Toronto (1961-1972) and Dalhousie Law School (1972-1990) had the good fortune of having him as professor and dean. …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.936
Threshold uncertainty score0.714

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.296
Teacher spread0.284 · 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