Minor Risks and Major Rewards: Civilian Codification in North America on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
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Abstract
The imminent passage of the new Quebec Civil Code calls for us, as North America's civilians, to celebrate our shared heritage.Garrisoned in outposts in a vast common-law territory, we recall proudly our ancestral law that, by the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, was already fourteen centuries old.Despite our isolation and separation from each other and from civilian territories in Europe as well as Latin America, we have withstood Anglo-Saxon onslaughts much more bravely than the Anglo-Saxons withstood their Norman attackers.If our civilian fortresses are not impregnable, they have at least proven sturdy; and their sturdiness testifies to the continuing vitality of our shared traditions.Eloquence about our distinctive traditions implies certain risks: our cofirmon-law brethren may regard us as mildly arrogant elitists who claim an intellectual pedigree superior to theirs.Even as we protest that we desire from our Anglo-American neighbors only respect and understanding, the very outlook and vocabulary of our Roman heritage render us suspect in their eyes.We cannot change the historical fact that the Romans established in Western consciousness a linguistic and conceptual link between"civllization" and "civil" law.Even a casual brush with Roman law teaches us that the earliest civilizing law, the ius civile, was a special regime reserved for Roman citizens as a privileged in-group.1For noncitizen outsiders such as conquered foreigners and barbarians, the peregrine praetor developed a ius gentiura, a universal law of nations generally applicable to everyone, including Roman
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 it