Transnational Forms of Islamic Law
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We begin this Issue by paying tribute to Dr Amir Ali Majid who assisted in the setting up this journal in 2005, which was then titled as the Journal of Islamic State Practices in International Law. Dr Majid was blind, who sadly passed away in March this year. He was the first blind person to become a Doctor of Civil Law from McGill University (Canada) and second blind person to reach a judicial post in the UK. He also served as a Reader at the Metropolitan University and was a member of the British Higher Education Academy. He sat as a First-tier Immigration Judge in the UK for a number of years. Dr Majid remained a torch bearer for race equality and disability rights throughout his life. In 2003 he received the Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Distinction), the second highest civilian honour in Pakistan. He was also granted the Life Learning Award by the Kashmir and Pakistan Professionals Association on 17 July 2005. His removal from the post as judge was controversial as he was kind in his appeal to immigrants. Dr Majid will be greatly missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
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".