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The Internal Morality of International Law

2018· article· en· W3123378172 on OpenAlexaff
Evan Fox-Decent, Evan J. Criddle

Bibliographic record

VenueeYLS (Yale Law School) · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInternational Law and Human Rights
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUnilateralismFiduciaryLawMoralityPolitical scienceLegitimacyInternational lawPublic international lawPublic lawLaw and economicsDutySociology
DOInot available

Abstract

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In this essay we build on public fiduciary theory and Lon Fuller’s notion of the internal morality of law. We posit two criteria necessary to establish the internal morality of international law. We argue that the internal morality of international law is derived from the synthesis of a fiduciary criterion of legitimacy and the prohibition of unilateralism. The former refers to the idea that any public action which cannot be reasonably said to be made in the name of, or on behalf of, those subject to it is illegitimate. The latter refers to the prohibition of one state imposing its will on another. We argue that the fiduciary criterion and the prohibition of unilateralism are complementary, and their synthesis provides a compelling explanation of international law’s authority. This is evident from the character and legal effects of jus cogens or peremptory norms. Finally, we address numerous challenges that could be raised against this conception of international law, and its implications for the rule of law in the international realm.

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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)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.017
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 score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.059

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.017
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.045
Scholarly communication0.0150.013
Open science0.0010.007
Research integrity0.0040.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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 head0.021
GPT teacher head0.308
Teacher spread0.287 · 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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