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Record W2941074681

TO BE OR NOT TO BE?: SOME LEGAL ETHICS FOR JUDICIAL LAW CLERKS

2011· article· en· W2941074681 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Joshua Wilner

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Bar Review · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal Education and Practice Innovations
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLawLegislationFacilitatorLegal ethicsPrincipal (computer security)Practice of lawPolitical scienceJudicial opinionLegal professionSociologyComputer science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Law clerks should strive to think like judges while always remembering they are not. Because clerks’ duties are derivative of the judicial office the clerks are meant to serve, they must live up to the standards of conduct applicable to their judicial principal. While there is no legislation or rules of professional conduct in Canada which are specifically tailored to apply to law clerks, lawyers’ rules or the “law of lawyering” is less important for facilitating ethical practice than is the exercise of good judgment. Law clerks can develop their judgment by assisting those whose job it is to render judgment. Understanding the fine line between being a decision-maker and a facilitator of decisions helps to inform the law clerk’s proper role. Their primary assignment is no broader than to make their judge the best judge possible.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.817
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.433
GPT teacher head0.479
Teacher spread0.045 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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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Published2011
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