Acceptance Speech for Lifetime Achievement Award from Canadian Prison Lawyers Association
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Acceptance Speech for Lifetime Achievement Award from Canadian Prison Lawyers AssociationI am deeply honoured by this award, particularly from an organization that shares my commitment to respect for human rights and in the presence of people who have contributed so much to the vindication of those rights in the darkest places in our country's prisons.My rst and foremost vocation has been as a law professor, teaching and writing in the elds of correctional law and Indigenous rights.My work in these areas has taken me on long historical journeys, in the case of imprisonment back to the 18th century and the birth of the penitentiary as the foundation of the carceral archipelago.In the case of Indigenous relationships back to legal debates in Spain in the 16th century on the legalities of colonization.And to the great speeches of Haudenosaunee statesmen in the 18th century Covenant Chain treaty making with British colonial governments where they insisted that justice, peaceful relationships and reconciliation must be predicated upon a recognition of inherent Indigenous rights to their land, their laws, diplomatic protocols and systems of governance.As I re ect on the humbling concept of lifetime achievement it is the struggle for justice that looms large.As a legal academic and in my research and writings I have turned my mind to the theme of change and continuity in the history of Canadian imprisonment and correctional law.This evening I want to share with you some thoughts, focusing on the last quarter of the 20th century and the rst of this century.I am not the rst to address this.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.023 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.043 | 0.009 |
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".