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Record W4415256555 · doi:10.4337/jlp.2025.02.03

Perfecting imperfect duties through law

2025· article· W4415256555 on OpenAlexaff
Michael Law-Smith

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Legal Philosophy · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicLaw, Economics, and Judicial Systems
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsImperfectSurpriseNormativeFlexibility (engineering)Moral responsibilityPrivate law

Abstract

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Some moral philosophers argue that our personal obligations to help address the collective economic, environmental and intergenerational crises of our time are imperfect duties. According to this view, we must all do our part to help resolve these crises, but each of us enjoys some latitude to decide how and when to do so. However, given the flexibility built into these duties, it is no surprise that many of us fail to take meaningful steps to act on them. In response to this problem, it has been argued that we should institutionalize our imperfect duties and so transform them into perfect duties – that is, legally enforceable duties that provide us each with specific guidance on what we must do. This paper explores whether this proposal is institutionally and normatively coherent as a matter of law. I argue that such perfected duties fit better within the institutions of public law rather than private law, but that some normative concerns remain for justifying such duties as legitimate public law duties.

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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)0.027
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.041
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 score0.027
Threshold uncertainty score0.141

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0270.041
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.051
Scholarly communication0.0110.020
Open science0.0020.009
Research integrity0.0060.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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 head0.030
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.216 · 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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