Chief Justice Winkler to Receive Honourary Doctorate from Osgoode Hall Law School; Plans Underway for New Dispute Resolution Institute and Chair to Honour Legacy of Ontario Chief Justice
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Chief Justice Winkler to Receive Honourary Doctorate from Osgoode Hall Law School; Plans Underway for New Dispute Resolution Institute and Chair to Honour Legacy of Ontario Chief Justice\nTORONTO, June 4, 2012 – Ontario Chief Justice Warren K. Winkler, who has received numerous awards and honours during his distinguished years of service to the legal profession, the judiciary and the community, will be presented with the degree of Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) at Osgoode's Spring Convocation on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 3.30 p.m. in the Convocation Pavilion of the Rexall Centre on York's Keele campus.\nLorne Sossin, Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, also announced that planning is underway to create the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution and the Winkler Chair in Dispute Resolution to be housed at Osgoode. The Chair will lead the Institute, which will be devoted to research and initiatives in support of innovative dispute resolution. The Institute also will house a small and prestigious group of “Winkler Fellows” to give public lectures, collaborate on research projects, and develop pilot projects in fields related to dispute resolution.\nTo be named in honour of Ontario Chief Justice Warren K. Winkler (LLB ’62, LLM ’64), the Winkler initiative at Osgoode will recognize and celebrate his commitment to innovation in dispute resolution as Chief Justice. Winkler has devoted his 50-year career as a labour lawyer and then a jurist to the improvement of both traditional and alternative methods of dispute resolution.\n“Chief Justice Winkler has made tremendous contributions to the development of dispute resolution in Ontario,” Sossin said. “Given Osgoode’s rich tradition of leadership in the field, it is fitting that a leading global institute on dispute resolution should be launched here, and we are honoured that the Chief Justice has agreed to be its namesake.”\nSossin said that a volunteer committee, comprised of admirers of the Chief Justice’s work and chaired by Neil Finkelstein of McCarthy Tétrault, has begun fundraising for the Winkler Chair and Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution, which should allow the initiative to be launched to coincide with the start of Winkler’s retirement.\nSossin referred to Winkler as “a nationally recognized legal scholar and author, an expert in labour law and class action law as well as a distinguished jurist who is renowned for his judicial mediation skills and alternative dispute methods.”\nHe noted that Winkler has judicially mediated many large national and international disputes including the Air Canada Restructuring, and the Walkerton Tainted Water Class Action, and was instrumental in the settlement of some of the seemingly most intractable major lawsuits in Canada.\n“In his speeches and writings, Chief Justice Winkler has emphasized the potential of a progressive dispute resolution system to attract economic development and investment and enhance access to justice,” Sossin said.\nWinkler, who is also marking the 50th anniversary of his graduation from Osgoode, was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1965 and was created a Queen’s Counsel in 1977. He was a partner in the law firm of Winkler, Filion & Wakely and practised labour law on behalf of management. He was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice (General Division) in 1993 then was appointed Regional Senior Judge for Toronto Region in March 2004, and Chief Justice of Ontario in June 2007.\nYork University is a leading interdisciplinary research and teaching university in Canada. York offers a modern, academic experience at the undergraduate and graduate level in Toronto – Canada’s most international city. The third largest university in the country, York is host to a dynamic academic community of 55,000 students and 7,000 faculty and staff, as well as 250,000 alumni worldwide. York’s 10 faculties and 28 research centres conduct ambitious, groundbreaking research that is interdisciplinary, cutting across traditional academic boundaries. This distinctive and collaborative approach is preparing students for the future and bringing fresh insights and solutions to real-world challenges. York University is an autonomous, not-for-profit corporation.\n-30-\nMedia Contact: Virginia Corner, Communications Manager, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, 416-736-5820, vcorner@osgoode.yorku.ca
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.425 | 0.158 |
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".