Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Human Rights Act of 1998 was one of the first pieces of legislation passed by Tony Blair's Labour government, and as such it symbolized heady hopes for a new, progressive era in British politics and law. These high expectations were disappointed, perhaps inevitably. Civil libertarians have been critical of the Labour government's policies of regulating welfare recipients, street people, and truants and of the illiberal treatment of terrorist suspects and religious extremists. Many wonder how effective the Human Rights Act can be, if government can so easily restrict individual freedom under its auspices. In two recent works Conor Gearty celebrates the Human Rights Act, not for bold interventions or radical change but, rather, for what he deems to be the act's appropriately modest aims and limited impact. I argue that this account diminishes the philosophical and political value of human rights. I highlight four problems with Gearty's argument: his democratic conception of rights, which threatens to dilute the capacity of rights to defend individual interests against the majority; his impatience with moral realist accounts of human rights; his inattention to questions of sovereignty; and, finally, his conservative approach to the content of human rights.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.024 | 0.016 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".