Abstract
Should lawyers be trained at law schools that effectively exclude LGBTQ applicants? In Canada prior to 2013, the universally secular and public system of legal education meant this issue never arose. But in 2013 Trinity Western University (TWU), which requires its students to promise to refrain from “sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman,” received approval to open a law school. The Canadian legal profession has divided on the question of whether this requirement ought to preclude TWU graduates from being admitted to the profession. This comment reviews the response of the profession to TWU to date and suggests the significant challenges TWU’s covenant presents for equality rights and religious freedoms, for inter-provincial cooperation in lawyer regulation, and for the proper scope of lawyer regulation.
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