Bibliographic record
Abstract
Trinity Western University (TWU) is a private Christian university located in Langley, British Columbia, which applied to the Federation of Canadian Law Societies for recognition of its law degree. The Federation gave approval in December 2013, but controversy arose over TWU’s admission requirement that students sign a Community Covenant which stated, in part, ‘In keeping with biblical and TWU ideals, community members voluntarily abstain from… sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.’1 As of April 2015, three Canadian law societies—those in Upper Canada (Ontario), British Columbia, and Nova Scotia—had refused to accept the TWU law degree because of the Community Covenant, and another, the Law Society of New Brunswick, was only one vote away from refusal. When the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society (NSBS) refused approval unless TWU either exempted law students from signing the Community Covenant or amended the Community Covenant for law students in a way that would cease to discriminate, TWU applied to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia for judicial review, claiming that the NSBS did not have authority to make the decision and that it violated TWU’s religious freedom as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter. On 28 January 2015, Justice Jamie S Campbell gave a robust judgment in which he agreed.2
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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 | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.233 | 0.028 |
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".