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Record W3108520199 · doi:10.3138/utlj-2020-0100

The question of fairness in contract law

2020· article· en· W3108520199 on OpenAlexaffvenue
John D. McCamus

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Toronto Law Journal · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal principles and applications
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVariety (cybernetics)Argument (complex analysis)EnforcementLawLaw and economicsState (computer science)Political scienceLaw enforcementRule of lawEconomicsComputer science

Abstract

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The law of contracts has developed a variety of techniques for avoiding the enforcement of highly unfair, unreasonable, or burdensome terms. As yet, however, the common law has not directly adopted a straightforward rule to this effect. As a result, existing doctrines have been strained to achieve this objective. Further, there remain large gaps in the law in which such terms remain enforceable. The resulting state of the law contains many anomalies, uncertainties, and injustices. The author offers a sustained and convincing case for the explicit adoption of a rule permitting courts to refuse to enforce such terms. The argument draws support from an extensive review of historical and theoretical sources.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.036
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.064
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.036
Threshold uncertainty score0.192

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0360.064
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0100.057
Scholarly communication0.0140.017
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0100.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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 head0.017
GPT teacher head0.271
Teacher spread0.254 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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