NARROWING THE ATLANTIC: A STUDY OF THE USE OF ENGLISH PRECEDENTS IN CANADIAN CORPORATE LAW
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Most modem Canadian corporate law statutes are similar to their United States’ counterparts, and dissimilar to statutes regulating the English economy. That notwithstanding - despite observations that United States’ authorities played an important role in decisions of early Canadian courts - English authorities are routinely cited by present day Canadian courts when dealing with Canadian corporations. My purpose through this thesis was to explore that phenomenon.\nI began by establishing the efficacy of the observation that United States’ authorities were important to early Canadian courts. To that end I contrasted the favorable reception of United States’ authorities reflected by the early decisions of the Maritime courts with the less favorable reception reflected by those o f the Upper Canada courts.\nTo attempt to explain that contrast I explored the individuals that populated each of the respective benches and their historical context. I found that while United Empire Loyalists with strong ties to British America populated the Maritime benches, citizens of the British Realm with no affiliation to the Revolutionary War dominated the Upper Canada bench. Based on these findings I have proposed that the collective backgrounds of the respective benches influenced their reception of United States’ authorities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".