New constitutional rites: indigeneity, legal pluralism and the international finance corporation’s performance standards in Cambodia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Globalisation is radically reconfiguring traditional understandings of constitutional law. A prime example of this trend would be the International Finance Corporation, whose Performance Standards have been described as a private-law Bill of Rights. Focusing on a complaint brought to the IFC’s Compliance Assessment Ombudsman by 17 villages in northeastern Cambodia, this article investigates how supranational frameworks interact with local identities and normative orders by highlighting how the IFC’s Performance Standard 7 on Indigenous Peoples has allowed certain communities to assert identities and associated rights that are not explicitly provided for in the national Constitution. In the process, I ask whether the IFC can be understood as having played the traditionally constitutional role of constituting a people, albeit at a subnational level, or recognizing an identity with specific legal privileges in Cambodia. Similarly, in discussing ongoing attempts to broker a settlement between the parties, the paper explains how the IFC’s engagement with the normative (legal) orders of the communities has pushed the dispute into a different ontological realm. The result is a pluralistic picture of transnational law in Cambodia, in which we can better see the way in which nation-states and their constitutions are at times being superseded by transnational actors.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".