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Record W3049269530

The Origins of Hostility to the Rule of Law in Canadian Academia: A History of Administrativism and Anti-Historicity

2019· article· en· W3049269530 on OpenAlexaffabout
Ryan Patrick Alford

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal Education and Practice Innovations
Canadian institutionsLakehead University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInstrumentalismRule of lawLawLegal historyHistoricity (philosophy)HegemonyChivalryPolitical scienceIdeologyOrder (exchange)SociologyEpistemologyPhilosophyHistoryPolitics
DOInot available

Abstract

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The article offers a historical perspective on a growing threat to the rule of law from inside legal education. His contribution demonstrates that the modern legal academy's disdain for this foundational concept explained in no small part by a key obstacle in its path to ideological hegemony in legal thought: in order to reshape the law in the image of its own instrumentalism, it must eradicate the intimate knowledge and attachment to constitutional history that has always engendered great respect for the rule of law in the Canadian bench and bar.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.955
Threshold uncertainty score0.859

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0050.006
Science and technology studies0.0450.089
Scholarly communication0.0170.005
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0040.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

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 head0.021
GPT teacher head0.328
Teacher spread0.307 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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Published2019
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