Women seeking to extricate themselves from abusive relationships may find it difficult to avoid engagement with a legal system composed of multiple regimes: criminal, family, social assistance, social housing, immigration, and child welfare law.

Janet Mosher, director of clinical legal education at Osgoode Hall Law School, will discuss how these legal regimes are used by abusive men to maintain control rather than to resolve disputes in her free public lecture, “Gender Violence and Access to Justice at the Intersection of (In)compatible Legal Regimes,” 4 p.m. Thursday, March 5, in the Ron W. Ianni Faculty of Law Building.

Professor Mosher is co-editor with Joan Brockman, of Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization, and with Joe Hermer of Disorderly People: Law and the Politics of Exclusion in Ontario. She is a member of the Canadian Homelessness Research Network and the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and formerly served on Legal Aid Ontario’s clinic law advisory committee.

Her presentation, the 2015 Distinguished Lecture of the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, is open to the public but space is limited. Confirm attendance by sending an e-mail by Thursday, February 26, to Cristina Corio at ccorio@uwindsor.ca.