ACCLE Past, Present, and Future: Reflections from ACCLE’s Board Presidents
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Abstract
Over the years since its inception, the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education (ACCLE) has benefitted from the dedication of presidents who have volunteered their time to promote and advance the aims of the organization. From a nascent association, which sought to bring together individuals working in clinical legal education programs, ACCLE has grown to be a significant voice in the debates about the future of legal education and on access to justice. Its annual conferences continue to create connections among faculty, clinic directors, clinicians, clinic students, and others to learn from one another and benefit from shared experience. ACCLE has contributed to various policy discussions, including those regarding student participation in family law representation, national conversations about the future of articling, and most recently the debates regarding the Bill C-75 amendments to the Criminal Code and access to re1presentation in criminal matters. In order to document the history and progression of the organization, the three presidents who have taken on this role over the last ten years agreed to be interviewed about their perspectives.2 In this interview, the three presidents reflect on the past, present, and future of ACCLE. What was the impetus for ACCLE’s formation? What were some of the organization’s early struggles? What role has ACCLE played in the development of clinical legal education over the past ten years, a time during which a sea change has taken hold in clinical legal education in Canada? What are the future challenges facing ACCLE and what is its potential to meaningfully impact the development of clinical legal education more generally?
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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 | 0.027 | 0.058 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.047 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.023 | 0.049 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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".