Osgoode leads Canadian law schools with unique micro-courses
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Osgoode leading Canadian legal education with launch of micro-courses\nOsgoode Hall Law School launches professional skills micro-courses to prepare JD students for their future careers\nTORONTO, Sept. 25, 2024 – In a first for legal education in Canada, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University has launched a unique collection of one- and two-credit courses for students in the Juris Doctor (JD) program who want to gain more in-depth knowledge and skills in specific areas of legal practice.\nDesigned to complement the foundational knowledge provided by the core JD curriculum, professional skills micro-courses give students a head start on mastering the practical aspects and inevitable challenges — from managing finances to building relationships with clients — that are part of any legal career.\n“As our JD students combine rigorous legal training with hands-on experience to prepare for their careers, it’s important that they also learn to navigate the day-to-day realities of practising law,” says Osgoode Dean Trevor Farrow. “In creating this innovative collection of micro-courses focused on specific professional skills, we’re reinforcing Osgoode’s long-time leadership in cutting-edge legal education.”\nExploring a diverse range of career-focused topics\nOsgoode has announced its inaugural offering of professional skills micro-courses for the JD program’s 2024-25 academic year: AI and Technology in Legal Practice: An in-depth look at how artificial intelligence and other technological innovations are transforming the practice of law. Students will gain hands-on experience with applications from digital management tools to software enabling AI-assisted research, analysis, and decision-making support. Legal Practice Dynamics: Teaches the skills and strategies required to become a successful legal practitioner in any environment, whether at a firm, as part of a corporate team, or in the public sector. Mental Health, Wellness and the Legal Profession: Provides the analytical insights and practical tools needed to navigate mental health challenges in legal practice — and to intervene, when appropriate, in a spirit of empathy and trust. Financial Literacy for Lawyers: Designed to help future lawyers gain a basic understanding of financial reporting and accounts, along with the ways such information can be leveraged in legal practice. \nMore micro-courses coming soon\nAdditional subjects in development include: juridical French, Indigenous languages, and client relations and communications. The common thread is providing knowledge and skills that JD graduates can apply immediately as they embark on their careers.\n“At Osgoode, we don’t draw a hard line between law school and the so-called ‘real world,’” says Farrow. “Our JD program offers unrivaled opportunities to gain direct legal experience. And now these unique micro-courses enable students to start developing professional skills today that they’ll use throughout their careers.”\nTo learn more about professional skills micro-courses, visit Osgoode's website .\nAbout Osgoode Hall Law School\nAround 900 students are enrolled in Osgoode’s three-year Juris Doctor (JD) program, including its joint and combined programs. The school’s highly selective graduate LLM and PhD programs are among the most highly regarded in North America, and finest in the country. Osgoode’s professional development courses and certificates offer degree and non-degree programming for Canadian and international lawyers, non-law professionals, firms and organizations.\nFounded in 1889, Osgoode is one of Canada’s largest and most respected law schools and a centre of influential legal research and thinking. The school’s students, teachers and scholars share a common goal: to advance positive change in a world where rights are often contested, and justice can be complex. Throughout Osgoode’s long history, the practice of law has always been seen as more than a means to an end. It’s a journey that takes one from identifying the issues that matter to creating meaningful impact.\nYork University is a modern, multi-campus, urban university located in Toronto, Ontario. Backed by a diverse group of students, faculty, staff, alumni and partners, we bring a uniquely global perspective to help solve societal challenges, drive positive change, and prepare our students for success. York's fully bilingual Glendon Campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education. York’s campuses in Costa Rica and India offer students exceptional transnational learning opportunities and innovative programs. Together, we can make things right for our communities, our planet, and our future.\nMedia Contact: \nNichole Jankowski, York University Media Relations and External Communications, York University, 647-995-5013, jankown@yorku.ca\nAnita Herrmann, Director, External Relations, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, 416-736-5364, aherrmann@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)
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.217 | 0.033 |
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".