Bibliographic record
Abstract
Emigration has been a significant feature of Irish life and, in more recent years, of Irish academic life also. This is despite – or because of - the growth in the number of Law Schools and law programmes in Ireland. There were four university Law Schools in 1980, the largest of which (UCD) had twelve academic staff. There are now seven university Law Schools with over 140 academic staff. In addition, several of the thirteen Institutes of Technology offer law degrees even though they do not have designated law departments. Letterkenny IT and Dublin IT, have a Department of Law and Humanities and a School of Social Sciences and Law respectively. Private colleges – DSB/Portobello, Griffith, Hibernia, and Independent Colleges – also offer law degrees. As the numbers graduating from Irish universities have increased, there has been an outflow of academics going overseas either through necessity or interest. Thus a brief trawl through the web brings to light Irish-educated academics based in Canada, France, Iceland, the Netherlands, the UK and the United States. This chapter offers a brief reflection on the cadre of Irish academics overseas and is prompted by a reflection on what is Irish legal scholarship. Is it scholarship exclusively about Irish law or scholarship produced by scholars based in Ireland or does it extend to Irish educated scholars based outside of Ireland who may or may not write about Irish law? The suggestion made here is that we should have regard to this last category of scholars in exploring the nature of Irish legal scholarship. In doing so, it adopts a broad brush examination of a particular group of scholars defined not by their research interests in a field of substantive law but by the fact that having received (some of) their tertiary education in Ireland, they are now academics based in the UK. The chapter first offers a brief reflection on what is a scholar and intellectual before turning to the Irish scholar in the UK and the data on publications about Irish law in Ireland, elsewhere and other publications. It then concludes.
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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 | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.015 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.034 | 0.005 |
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".