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The Phenomenon of “Pseudolaw”: Preliminary Characteristics

2025· article· en· W7118122381 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Radosław Pastuszko

Bibliographic record

VenueStudia Iuridica Lublinensia · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLaw in Society and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhenomenonLegitimacyStatutory lawState (computer science)Economic JusticeScope (computer science)Value (mathematics)IdeologyArgument (complex analysis)

Abstract

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The subject of this research is the phenomenon of “pseudolaw” in the form of sovereign citizens movements and so-called Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments (OPCA). These are ideologies that deny the legitimacy of a democratic state governed by the rule of law and replace statutory law with their own absurd interpretations of legal concepts. The focal point of this research endeavor is to elucidate the mechanisms through which these movements adapt in Poland, a nation where this phenomenon remains underappreciated by state authorities and within the corpus of legal literature. The primary argument of this study is that pseudo-legal ideologies, despite their present limited scope in Poland (with several thousand active adherents), demonstrate a worrisome upward trend. This trajectory, as evidenced by Western experiences, has the potential to compromise the effective functioning of the justice system and public safety. The objective of the present study is to furnish a preliminary description of the origins, evolution, and manifestations of the phenomenon in the Polish context, with particular emphasis on social media. The study’s novelty stems from its exhaustive examination of the phenomenon within the Polish context, which significantly expands upon the scope of previous sporadic observations. The research is international in scope, covering a comparative analysis of practices in the United States, Canada, Germany (Reichsbürger), Austria, and other European countries, with application to the specific Polish context. The cognitive value of this approach pertains to two distinct yet interconnected domains. Firstly, from the vantage point of legal science, it facilitates the identification of novel threats to the legal order. Secondly, from the perspective of the practice of state authorities, it fosters the development of strategies to counteract these threats in accordance with democratic values.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.861
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.296
Teacher spread0.284 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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