Jan 8th, 2019
Law professor Anneke Smit is one of the authors of an opinion piece calling on Canada to provide a safe haven for scholars at risk.
Anneke Smit
Third-year law student Oshani Amaratunga will have her research paper published the Pace Environmental Law Review.
Dec 20th, 2018
Third-year law student Oshani Amaratunga will have her research paper published the Pace Environmental Law Review.
Law professor Anneke Smit serves on the steering committee for Scholars at Risk Canada.
Dec 18th, 2018
Turkish academic Zeyyat Bandeoglu will teach classes in law and political science at the University of Windsor next semester.
Natasha Feghali (BA 2007, B.Ed 2008) is one of three recent grads who will be honoured during the alumni association’s Annual General Meeting and Awards Presentations on Thursday, November 16.
Nov 10th, 2017
The University of Windsor Alumni Association will honour an outstanding educator as well as six graduates at varying stages of their careers at its Annual General Meeting and Awards Presentations evening on Thursday, November 16, starting at 5 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre's Ambassador Auditorium.
If you plan to attend, RSVP online or e-mail alumni@uwindsor.ca.
Mar 28th, 2017
A town hall meeting Tuesday will discuss Canada’s next steps in sponsorship and family reunification of Syrian refugees.
Law professor Anneke Smit will receive an award from the Windsor Essex Local Immigration Partnership for her work to support refugees.
Feb 16th, 2017
Law professor Anneke Smit will receive an award from the Windsor Essex Local Immigration Partnership for her work to support refugees.
Government-assisted refugees Noura and Bilal Tanbari with their Windsor schoolmate Alies Waters.
Dec 20th, 2016
A campus effort to sponsor a refugee family from Syria for resettlement in Canada has reached its initial fundraising target and submitted the sponsorship application. Now the real work begins, report organizers.
“With so much help from across the university community, we have raised more than the minimum required to bring a family here,” says professor Anneke Smit, part of the Group of Five sponsors based in Windsor Law. “This has been a campus-wide effort. Every faculty contributed, as well as individuals and groups.”
A mini-conference Friday, April 1, at Windsor Law will consider issues of refugee movements and labour migration.
A new initiative by Windsor Law and the University of Ottawa Refugee Hub will be offering support and information to members of the Windsor community wishing to privately sponsor Syrian refugees.
The Windsor chapter of the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program (SSP), will bring together pro bono lawyers, law students, and sponsorship experts for a public information session on Thursday, January 21, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in room 2100, Faculty of Law building.
A weak legal framework coupled with increasing use of expropriation by public authorities is eroding private property rights in Canada, says Anneke Smit.
The law professor will use the example of the Windsor-Essex Parkway to illustrate her point in a free public lecture, entitled “Property expropriation for mega-projects in Canada,” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 13.