Joseph J. Arvay, Q.C. to Receive Honorary Degree at Spring Convocation
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Abstract
Osgoode Dean Lorne Sossin sent the following announcement to the Osgoode community on April 28:\nIt is my distinct pleasure to advise that Joseph J. Arvay, Q.C., one of Canada’s most highly regarded civil rights and human rights lawyers, will be awarded an honorary degree at Osgoode Convocation on Friday, June 24.\nA partner with Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP in Vancouver who holds law degrees from Western and Harvard universities, Mr. Arvay has litigated cases on our fundamental freedoms, on access to justice and Indigenous rights, on equality, on principles of fundamental justice, and on the limits of police and state authority that have reshaped the legal and policy landscape.\nHe has been counsel in a number of important Supreme Court of Canada cases such as Little Sisters, Surrey School Board, the Same Sex Marriage Reference, Khadr, Conway, the Health Services case involving the right of collective bargaining, Saskatchewan Federation of Labour (right to strike), Tsilhqot’in Nation and many others including Carter v Canada (AG) in which the Supreme Court struck down the ban on physician-assisted suicide.\nHe also has had many associations with Osgoode and York University over a number of years. In 2012, he was one of our inaugural McMurtry Visiting Clinical Fellows, and delivered the Lewtas Lecture as well as a keynote address in the Ethical Lawyering in a Global Community course. He was also a guest speaker in a range of upper-year classes and devoted part of his time at Osgoode to mentorship with students, lawyers and academics in clinical settings.\nHis exceptional commitment to human rights in this country has been recognized with numerous awards and honours including the Advocate Society’s Justice Award in 2015, the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia Bar Award in 2009, the Reg Robson Award from the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association in 2005, and the Walter S. Tarnopolsky Human Rights Award in 2000.\nA Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he was also recognized by Canadian Lawyer Magazine as one of the top 25 most influential lawyers in Canada in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.\nIn an extraordinary career (with many more achievements no doubt to come) Mr. Arvay has made a significant contribution to the public good, and I know you join me in congratulating him on being chosen to receive York University’s highest honour: Doctor of Laws (honoris causa).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.003 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".