"A couple of generations ahead of popular demand": The First National Law Program at McGill University, 1918-1924
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Abstract
Following the First World War, Dean Robert Warden Lee introduced some radical changes to the curriculum at the McGill Law Faculty. Three-year courses were instituted leading to either a civil law degree or a common law degree, and a four-year course in which both degrees could be obtained. The program was extremely controversial, running into opposition within the part-time faculty the Montreal legal community and the bar societies of several provinces. Difficulties in obtaining professional accreditation for the common law graduates led to a decline in enrollment, and the common law option was discontinued in 1926. Lee's vision of a law school of international importance where both great branches of the law were taught was ahead of its time. It was not until 1968 that Dean Maxwell Cohen was able to introduce successfully a very similar concept in McGill's National Programme. Après la Première Guerre mondiale, Robert Warden Lee, doyen de la Faculté de droit de I'Université McGill a apporté des changements radicaux au programme d'enseignement. II a mis en place des cours étalés sur trois années menant l'obtention d'un diplôme en droit civil ou en common law, et un programme de quatre ans menant, l'obtention des deux dipl6mes. Le programme a soulevé une grande controverse et provoqué une vive opposition chez les membres du corps professoral qui enseigne a temps partiel, chez les juristes de Montréal et au sein des Barreaux de nombreuses provinces. Les problèmes éprouvés par les diplômés en common law pour faire reconnaître leur diplôme ont entraîné une baisse des inscriptions, et cette option a été éliminée en 1926. Robert Warden Lee était un visionnaire, et son idée d'une faculté de droit ou les deux grandes traditions juridiques seraient enseignées était avant-gardiste. Ce n'est qu'en 1968 que le doyen Maxwell Cohen a pu réussir ++
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.034 | 0.003 |
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".