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Record W46320438

Developments in Constitutional Law: The 2013 Term

2015· article· en· W46320438 on OpenAlexaffabout
Jena McGill

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicJudicial and Constitutional Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsJurisprudenceCharterLawPolitical scienceSupreme courtConstitutional lawFederalismContext (archaeology)DoctrineHuman rightsPoliticsGeography
DOInot available

Abstract

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This paper reviews four important constitutional law decisions issued by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2013: the division of powers opinion in Marine Services International Ltd. v. Ryan Estate, and three sizable decisions concerning the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms outside the criminal procedure context: Saskatchewan (Human Rights Commission) v. Whatcott; Quebec (Attorney General) v. A; and Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford. Individually, each of the cases advances a particular body of jurisprudence and raises interesting questions about prospective directions for the federalism doctrines and Charter rights at stake. Read together, the cases also suggest some noteworthy themes relevant to the future of constitutional law jurisprudence more broadly, offering insights on the limits of the doctrine of stare decisis; the role of choice in Charter cases; and the Court's continuing intention to nudge the balance of federalism toward the provinces.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.894
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.265 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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Citations6
Published2015
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