Bibliographic record
Abstract
The writing of Canadian legal history has been a patchwork affair.When a large group of legal-historical scholars met at the University of Manitoba in 1997 for a "Special Conference on Canada's Legal History: Past, Present, and Future," concerns about the lack of literature on the country's legal history across its geographical regions were met with comments ranging from "it can't be done" to "it should not be done."While the Osgoode Society continues to publish its important Essays in the History of Canadian Law, its eastern, or central, bias combined with a fragmented approach leave the broader outlines of our legal-historical record still untouched.The only sustained work in the country is that of the Canadian State Trials series originated by the late Murray Greenwood and Barry Wright, which Professor Wright is continuing to this day.This lack of what one may hesitate to call a "national" overview of how law works on the ground has also led to the neglect of larger regional, legal identities outside of Ontario and Quebec, of which the Prairies are a major element.The advent of the UBC Press Law and Society Series in 2001 provided Canadians with an important impetus to the writing of their legal-historical record, one with which this collection is proud to be associated.The view that the history of the law must be written from a broad perspective of peoples, communities, and states within a larger global context is one that will mark the twenty-first century.Too often the "west" is seen as an appendage of central Canada, rather than as a region that developed its own culture, society, and institutions from a broader mosaic that was Native, European, and North American.This volume attempts to speak on issues and problems in Canada's Prairie West with that larger goal in mind, as well as continuing to develop the fascination with its people and events.
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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 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.537 | 0.256 |
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".