Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Imagine, as part of its ongoing investigations into the situation in Ukraine, the icc prosecutor finally seizes on the opportunity to make a case for prosecuting the war crime of attacking the environment as formulated under Article 8(2)(b)(iv) and cite, inter alia, the Nova Kakhovka Dam’s destruction as the principal incident triggering the application of the article. In the event of such a possibility, what restraints and difficulties punctuate the application of Article 8(2)(b)(iv), and what do such limits tell us about the juridical value of this provision? This essay argues that many technical nuances such as the meaning of ‘attack’ under international humanitarian law, incomplete information on who is responsible for the attack, and high thresholds of responsibility for environmental damage established under the Rome Statute will create insurmountable barriers to establishing responsibility for even the gravest damage to the environment, such as those witnessed in the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka Dam.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.050 | 0.014 |
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".