Bibliographic record
Abstract
Albert Venn Dicey had long wished for a professorship. There were four chairs in law at Oxford at this time. He had tried for the Chichele Professorship of International Law, but it went to his friend Thomas Erskine Holland. The Regius Professorship of Civil Law was held by his friend James Bryce. That left the Corpus Professorship of Jurisprudence and the Vinerian Professorship of Common Law. As it happened, both chairs became vacant at about the same time. Sir Henry Maine resigned as Professor of Jurisprudence in late 1878 to become Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and John Robert Kenyon, who had been the Vinerian Professor since 1844, died in April 1880. Long before his death, Kenyon had more or less retreated to his ‘beloved Shropshire’ and the Vinerian chair was effectively in abeyance. 1 However, the university took steps to reconstitute and revitalise the chair. At this time, the Vinerian professorship in law was attached to All Souls with an annual salary (£700) thought sufficient to attract worthy candidates, and it was renamed the Vinerian Professorship of English Law. 2
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.191 | 0.053 |
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".