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Adversarial System of Justice

2024· other· en· W4399978819 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
W. Bradley Wendel

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Encyclopedia of Ethics · 2024
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Philosophy and Ethics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAdversarial systemEconomic JusticePolitical scienceComputer scienceComputer securityLaw

Abstract

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“Adversarial” is a term used to describe the legal system in jurisdictions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, all of which share the heritage of English common law. It refers to the control by the parties over the selection of legal theories and presentation of evidence. The hallmark of an adversarial system of justice is two competing sides, generally represented by lawyers, with a neutral judge serving essentially in the role of referee and legal decision‐maker. The relevant contrast with adversarial systems is with legal systems in which greater control is vested in state officials to control the presentation of facts and the legal contentions to be considered. These systems are rooted in Roman law of antiquity, as opposed to English common law, and are often referred to as civil law jurisdictions. This discussion will avoid the ambiguous term civil law, however, because it suggests the distinction between civil and criminal adjudication – that is, between cases in which a right asserted is personal to one of the parties (civil) and those in which a wrongdoer is prosecuted on behalf of the citizenry as a whole (criminal). Instead, legal systems founded in Roman law will be called Continental, to emphasize their development in the legal traditions of Continental Europe, particularly France and Germany.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.013
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.068

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.013
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.022
Scholarly communication0.0100.005
Open science0.0030.008
Research integrity0.0050.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.003

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 head0.056
GPT teacher head0.381
Teacher spread0.325 · 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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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