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The Civil Law

2005· book-chapter· en· W4388436685 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
George P. Fletcher, Steve Sheppard

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicComparative and International Law Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCivil law (Civil law)HomelandLawIdentity (music)IrishCommon lawPolitical scienceYorubaScotsSociologyPublic lawPolitics

Abstract

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Abstract Before we go further in developing an understanding of the common law, it will be useful to contrast its methods with those of the civil law. The identity of “civilian lawyers” is born when they go abroad. It is a little like being an “African.” Only when the Kenyan or Nigerian (or, the Kikuyu or Yoruba) comes to another continent does she begin to think of herself as an African. The same thing is true of lawyers in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Korea, and Japan. The sense that they all belong to the same “legal family” is acquired when they leave their homeland and confront the other family, the common law. The Francophones of Québec think of themselves as adherents of the “civil law” only because they are confronted on a daily basis with the “other”—the Anglophone common lawyers. But the Germans and French and Spaniards read few contemporary books about the “civil law” and do not use a term in their respective languages to refer to themselves as “civil lawyers.” Their common identity is geographical, not legal. They think of themselves most likely as Germans, French, or Spaniards or, increasingly, as “Europeans”— perhaps as “Continental Europeans” to distinguish themselves from the English, Scots, and Irish.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.747
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.058
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.279 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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