Book Review: Transnational Constitutionalism: International and European Perspectives, by Nicholas Tsagourias (ed)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
TRANSNATIONAL CONSTITUTIONALISM presupposes a conceptual and theoretical shift of perspectives.This shift is related to the development of analytical tools that capture the tension between legality and legitimacy outside of state boundaries, which have constituted the traditional boundaries of legal discourse.The numerous processes of transnational constitutionalization present a particular challenge for those theories that too easily project learned, domestic notions of political power, law, and legitimacy onto conflict situations in the transnational arena. 3icholas Tsagourias's collection of essays, Transnational Constitutionalism: International and European Perspectives, offers numerous perspectives on the myriad normative underpinnings, practical examples, and political contexts of transnational constitutionalism in Europe and abroad.The reader is left with the impressiori that the project of transnational constitutionalism is an aspirational, rather than descriptive, endeavour.As such, it aims to limit political power through law and create a global legal community.Tsagourias's theoretical roadmap underlines the constraints of this project, including the lack of
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".