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Record W4410002592 · doi:10.21991/cf29488

Towards a Less Woolly Conception of Horizontal Effect

2025· article· en· W4410002592 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Johan Van der Walt

Bibliographic record

VenueConstitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicArchitecture and Computational Design
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychology

Abstract

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There are four key elements of the horizontal effect of constitutional rights of which I take stock in the four sections of this paper: 1) the law is everywhere; 2) private spheres and private law are as subject to the normative demands of constitutional law as any other societal sphere or any other sphere of law; 3) the effect of constitutional law on private law is as direct as it is on any other sphere of law; and 4) all human conduct, however private, has some degree of “public function.” In the unpacking of these four elements, I rely repeatedly on an elementary but profound Rawlsian characterization of political-liberal societies to dispel any Orwellian tones that any of them may seem to raise. I then end with a political-historical reflection — in dialogue with Joel Bakan and Sujit Choudhry’s contribution to this special issue — on the importance of cleaning up the conceptual disaster in the horizontal effect jurisprudence developed in Lüth and Dolphin.

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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)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.038
Scholarly communication0.0080.016
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0050.011
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.001

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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.218 · 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 designNot applicable
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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