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Making Amends for Historic Wrongs

2025· book· en· W4417168031 on OpenAlexaff
Mayo Moran

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLaw in Society and Culture
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLootingRedressRestitutionThe HolocaustEconomic JusticeFace (sociological concept)CommissionRoyal CommissionTransitional justice

Abstract

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Abstract Not long ago, complaints about old wrongs were dismissed with statements like “time heals all wounds” or “let sleeping dogs lie.” Survivors of assault, rape, torture, and looting were told that it was just too late. But now the problems of the past are coming back to haunt us. Institutions face complex reckonings with what their forebearers did, and they struggle to make amends. From the Holocaust to child abuse to colonialism, from looting to eugenics to slavery, demands to rectify old wrongs pose unsettling modern challenges. This book traces how the past became such a daunting contemporary problem. It shows how innovative private law actions for redress of old wrongs began to draw on the idea of reparative justice, using it to reshape traditional legal doctrines such as reparations and restitution. As reparations for old injuries and restitution of belongings taken long ago became increasingly common, transitional justice inspired remedies, such as truth commission style bodies and broader remedies, began to appear in stable democracies. In addition to tracing how the past became such a current problem, this book also seeks to draw some useful lessons for institutions seeking to make amends for historic wrongs. It addresses some of the most common challenges of these cases, many of which revolve around lawyers. It also explores some of the most positive lessons, illustrating how engagement with survivors and descendants can reap benefits, not only for them but also for the larger communities seeking to make amends.

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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)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.029
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 score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.059

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.029
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0120.024
Scholarly communication0.0100.010
Open science0.0020.009
Research integrity0.0110.013
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.003

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 head0.051
GPT teacher head0.347
Teacher spread0.296 · 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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