Bibliographic record
Abstract
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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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.195 | 0.092 |
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".