Osgoode Hall Law School: First in Canada in Experiential Education
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Abstract
Osgoode Hall Law School: First in Canada in Experiential Education\nTORONTO, Sept. 13, 2012 – York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School has embarked on a bold change to its three-year Juris Doctor (JD) program. Commencing with the Class of 2015 which arrived this September, every Osgoode JD student will be exposed to law in action through an experiential course or program as part of their legal education. Osgoode is the first law school in Canada to introduce an experiential education requirement – referred to at Osgoode as a “praxicum” – into the JD curriculum.\nIn addition to expanding the size and scope of its experiential education offerings in order to implement the praxicum requirement, Osgoode has also opened an Office of Experiential Education under the direction of Kimberley Bonnar, Manager, Experiential Education and Career Development. Bonnar, who graduated from Osgoode in 2009, had been working as an associate in the employment and labour group at Norton Rose Canada LLP. While a student at Osgoode, Bonnar played an instrumental role in the establishment of the Mediation Intensive Clinical Program, which continues to thrive. The Office of Experiential Education will serve as a catalyst for the development of new courses, programs and clinics and provide support to the faculty, students and staff.\nThe new experiential component is part of a larger package of reforms to the Law School’s upper-year JD curriculum that was approved by Osgoode Faculty Council in 2011 following three years of intensive consultation and collaboration between students, alumni, faculty and staff. It follows on the heels of the adoption a few years ago of first-year JD curriculum changes, including a pioneering course in ethical lawyering and a public interest requirement, and the introduction of a holistic admissions policy and process that foster equity as well as excellence. Together, Osgoode’s new JD curriculum is designed to integrate legal theory and legal practice in diverse and dynamic settings – whether in the classroom, across Toronto or around the globe.\nOsgoode Dean Lorne Sossin noted that the Law School, which has about 900 JD students, has been a leader in experiential education over several decades. Its experiential education offerings are the most extensive in Canada and among the most innovative in the world. Experiential education programs such as the Innocence Project, which involves students in the investigation of suspected wrongful convictions, the Mediation Intensive Clinical Program, the Criminal Intensive Program, the Osgoode Business Clinic, the Intensive Program in Poverty Law at Parkdale Community Legal Services, and the Community and Legal Aid Services Program are a significant reason why students are drawn to Osgoode.\nNew intensive programs in anti-discrimination law and intellectual property law are broadening the choices available to Osgoode students, and several other experiential courses, internships and clinical programs are on the drawing board. “This is the time for us to introduce more experiential education in our JD program,” Sossin said. “This approach to legal education means additional faculty involvement, more student engagement, community partnerships and enhanced administrative support, but the end result will be graduates who are focused on solving problems, responding to a rapidly changing legal landscape and becoming more reflective and collaborative professionals.”\n-30-\nFor further information:\nVirginia Corner\nCommunications Manager\nOsgoode Hall Law School of York University\n416-736-5820\nvcorner@osgoode.yorku.ca
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.043 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.079 | 0.006 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".