Bibliographic record
Abstract
There is a bust of Bora Laskin situated just outside the entrance to the Bora Laskin Law Library in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Students at U of T have affectionately appropriated this spot, which they call ‘Bora’s Head,’ and it is a popular gathering place at the law school. I often wonder what the students today think when they come together at Bora’s Head to study for exams or sell tickets for the Law Follies. What does Bora Laskin mean to them? What should he mean to them? In answering this question, I first had to consider what he means to me.I never met Bora Laskin, and yet he has loomed large in my professional life. For this reason, I read Philip Girard’s accessible and engaging biography Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life, published in 2005, with more than mere professional interest. That same year, a major conference was hosted by the Law Society of Upper Canada to commemorate Laskin, entitled The Laskin Legacy: A Commemoration of the Life and Contributions of the Right Honourable Bora Laskin, P.C., C.C. A series of essays arising from this conference was published in 2007 under the title The Laskin Legacy: Essays in Commemoration of Chief Justice Bora Laskin. These two examinations of Laskin’s legacy are distinct in a number of ways. Girard has penned a thoroughly researched and sparklingly written biography. The Commemoration, by contrast, brought together those who knew and were touched by Laskin, including former students, law clerks, judicial and academic colleagues, friends, and members of the profession who argued before him. Together, these appraisals of Laskin provide vivid and thought-provoking reflections of the man and his times. This essay is an attempt to assess Laskin’s continuing reach and his impact on Canada's legal community.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.057 | 0.057 |
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".