In response to COVID-19, Windsor Law has launched a suite of additional student supports including enhanced career service resources, a pandemic-specific emergency bursary program, and 30 new summer opportunities for law students who either lost their summer placements or were unable to secure positions due to the global pandemic.
— Published on May 14th, 2020
Professor Bill Bogart has published an article in HealthyDebate about the COVID-19 pandemic and the dilemmas of compliance.
"We cannot police our way out of this pandemic," says Professor Bogart. "But the mix of widely accepted norms with sanctions as a rare backup is the way to go for maximum compliance."
— Published on Apr 30th, 2020
Windsor Law Professor & Centre for Cities Director Anneke Smit and Allard Law Professor Alexandra Flynn published an opinion piece in the Toronto Star Monday making the argument that local governments are “bleeding democracy” in their rush to address COVID-19.
— Published on Apr 30th, 2020
After a 25-year-old Jamaican-Canadian had suspicions about a potential landlord, he took his rental discrimination case to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) and won.
When asked to provide her comments on the case, Professor Reem Bahdi said that statistically, it's not common to see a discrimination complaint before the HRTO end up in favour of the applicant.
— Published on Apr 16th, 2020
Windsor Law Professor and Externship Director Tess Sheldon co-authored an opinion piece about psychiatric detention and the need for preventative institutionalization amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
The authors argue that moving people into the community will protect their health, free up valuable resources, and reduce overcrowding for those who remain inside institutions—all part of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
— Published on Apr 30th, 2020
For self-represented Ontarians, COVID-19 brings anxious legal questions.
As civil and family courts remained focused on dealing with “urgent matters” only, people without lawyers are struggling to figure out an evolving set of rules and procedures — and what urgent means.
— Published on Apr 30th, 2020
Recognizing that experiential learning is a key component of providing a rigorous legal education, the Advocacy and Mooting Program at Windsor Law engages students each year in a variety of mock advocacy competitions including mooting (appellate advocacy), mock trial competitions, mock mediation, client counseling, and negotiation competitions.
Windsor Law reports the following successes for the 2019-20 mooting season:
Adam F. Fanaki Competition Law Moot
— Published on Jul 16th, 2021
An interdisciplinary research team has received $24,600 in funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, another $3,000 from WIFF, and $2,000 in in-kind support from UWindsor’s School of the Creative Arts to find ways to improve the Windsor International Film Festival's (WIFF) year-round reach.
— Published on Apr 2nd, 2020
EPICentre’s EPIC Legal Triage has wrapped up another successful semester of connecting University of Windsor Law students with our EPIC Startups.
— Published on Apr 2nd, 2020
During a CBC Windsor interview, Windsor Law Professor Kristen Thomasen said conversations around the potential use of cellphone data during the pandemic raise a lot of social questions.
— Published on Mar 30th, 2020
