Bibliographic record
Abstract
An Introduction to the Lectures of Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and Nova Scotia Provincial Court Judge Anne Derrick. What is the significance of the rule of law to the area of professional knowledge and practice that is “mental health”—or to the interaction of those two aspirational, one might say euphemistically-named social systems: the mental health and justice systems? This question centres upon the rule of law—specifically, I suggest (as I relate further in closing), a thick conception of the rule of law grounded in an ideal of state-subject reciprocity1 —and not, or not directly, upon the individual and social good of health. It is this overarching question that I wish to pursue in setting the stage for the two lectures that follow, in which prominent members of the Canadian judiciary address topics at the intersection of mental health and the law. It may be suspected that to take up the relationship between law and medicine, or more specifically between mental health law and mental health care, is to confront a deep and perhaps irresolvable divergence of values and ends: a clash of cultures.2 On one side of this divergence—an over-simplification which nonetheless reflects the typical contours of these debates is a position strenuously defended by some members of the mental health profession. This position, which is one of resistance to law, and which for some grounds actions expressly defiant of law, 3 is rooted in the argument that law is at best irrelevant to, and at worst an insensitive brake upon, the therapeutic ends of mental health practice. Indeed it may be argued that law, as applied to mental health interventions, supports absurd conclusions: conclusions wholly detached from reality, at least in the extreme cases in which controversies arise−reflecting a rigid privileging of abstract individual rights even in the face of grave health risks.4 From the other side, that of the mental health lawyer, may come the retort that our deepest human interest is the legally-privileged interest in directing our lives in accordance with our own values and experiences: the interest in personal autonomy. The lawyer may add, moreover, that mental health professionals are too quick to disrupt ordinary legal presumptions of individual liberty, capacity and decision-making authority, as if the power to do so flowed from medical expertise alone rather than from the specific terms of one or another publicly-conferred, carefully-circumscribed legal mandate.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.021 | 0.004 |
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".