Foreword, Table of Contents & Introduction
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Labour Law versus Employment Law in the UK and Canada: A Brian Langille Legacy\nThe special segment in this Volume 43, which is devoted to an exercise in comparative labour, is the brain-child of Alan Bogg and Mark Freedland. Both were at Oxford University in 2016, thinking about the up-coming third conference of the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN) in Toronto, which was scheduled for summer of 2017. (Alan is now at Bristol.) They thought it would be interesting to explore distinctions between labour law and employment law in both Canada and the United Kingdom, where the notions have different connotations and but considerable overlap from various perspectives. They thought that a useful starting point for comparative analysis would be the influential article written by Brian Langille, who was at the time of authorship at Dalhousie Law School, entitled “Labour Law is a Subset of Employment Law”: (1981), 31 UTLJ 200. Bruce Archibald (Dalhousie) and Claire Mummé (at Windsor, and a former post-doc at Dalhousie) were recruited to provide Canadian input to the project. A spirited round-table involving the four was held at the LLRN 3 conference. The discussion generated a good deal of engagement among those in attendance. After the initial event was over, the four thought that it would be valuable and fun to transfer their deliberations and debates into publishable form. The four invited Brian Langille (long since at University of Toronto) to write a response. Brian agreed with alacrity. All are delighted and grateful that the Dalhousie Law Journal, and the peer reviewers for the collection, were willing to give these ruminations a place in the academic sun. The hope is that readers may find the results to be of both theoretical and practical interest. In addition, the original proponents of this special issue are pleased to see that the editors have included at the end of this volume the Note, “On the Presence of the Past in the Future of International Labour Law” which was presented as the Horace E. Read Memorial Lecture at the Schulich School of Law by our esteemed colleague Adelle Blackett (McGill). We trust it can be seen that we are all committed in our own ways to the emancipatory and humanizing potential of both domestic and international labour and employment law.\nBruce Archibald \nProfessor Emeritus\nSchulich School of Law at Dalhousie University
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.384 | 0.246 |
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".