Windsor Law’s Ianni Scholar in Residence will discuss missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada during a panel discussion entitled “Barriers to Justice: Four Perspectives,” Friday, October 17.

Valarie Waboose graduated from Windsor Law in 1993 and completed her LLM in 1999. Currently, she is pursuing a doctorate from Trent University. Other panelists include:

N. Nicole Nussbaum, a staff lawyer with Legal Aid Ontario acting as a family advice lawyer and family duty counsel at the London courthouse and project lead on the Trans Legal Needs Assessment Ontario, will focus on how the law intersects with the lives of trans people.

Ryan Fritsch—a sessional lecturer at the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law, member of the Provincial Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee, and former co-chair of the Toronto Police Service Board Mental Health Emergency Diversion Committee—will discuss Legal Aid Ontario’s mental health strategy.

Adam Vasey, director of Pathway to Potential, the local anti-poverty group, will focus on how law can be used to both challenge and perpetuate oppression for those who experience poverty. He will explore how social work theory and practice might deepen our understanding of law’s potential to meaningfully address poverty.

Friday’s event, presented by the Transnational Law and Justice Network, begins at 12:30 p.m. in the left wing of room 2102, Ron W. Ianni Faculty of Law Building.