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The Real Issues of Judicial Ethics

2003· article· en· W202267463 on OpenAlex
Alex Kozinski

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Bibliographic record

VenueeYLS (Yale Law School) · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal Education and Practice Innovations
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAppearance of improprietyLawAppealJokeQuarter (Canadian coin)MagistratePolitical scienceLegal ethicsEconomic JusticeSociologyPhilosophyHistory
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Canons of Judicial Ethics remind me of the old joke about the drunk who’s crawling around on all fours under a lamp-post one night. A policeman comes along and asks him his business and the drunk explains that he’s looking for a lost quarter. So the policeman offers to help and pretty soon they’re both crawling around looking for the coin. After about a half hour of this, the policeman gets fed up and asks: “Are you sure you lost the quarter around here?” “Oh, no,” answers the drunk, “I dropped it over in the alley, but it’s too dark to look there.” So, too, it is with the Canons of Judicial Ethics. The Canons focus on the tensions and potential conflicts that are most easily detected by an outside observer. For example, pretty much everyone agrees that a judge should not sit in judgment on a case on appeal if he participated in the decision below. Similarly, everyone agrees that a judge may not sit in judgment in a case where he participated as a party or a lawyer. Of course, those are just two of the most obvious examples; we have plenty of rules and precedents saying that a judge may not participate in a case where doing so would create the appearance of impropriety. I should mention at the outset that I’m not a fan of this approach to judicial ethics, nor do I believe that it’s necessary or inevitable. Take the two examples I’ve given. As you will recall, in the early days of the Republic the justices rode circuit, and some of the cases they heard in

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.955
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.059
GPT teacher head0.397
Teacher spread0.338 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it