In recent media interviews, Associate Dean (Research & Graduate Studies) Laverne Jacobs commented on mandatory mask mandates as they relate to accessibility concerns for vulnerable populations.
Dr. Jacobs said many people with disabilities fear that they'll be asked to share their health history with a stranger every time they enter a store in order to “prove” they fall into an exempted category.
— Published on Jul 7th, 2020
In a CBC article about judicial diversity targets, Associate Dean (Academic) Beverly Jacobs, said merely appointing a more diverse bench won't be good enough if the laws themselves don't change.
"It just means that it becomes a brown system with the same colonial laws so it's not going to work," Dr. Jacobs said.
— Published on Jun 30th, 2020
Just months after receiving word of her promotion from assistant to associate professor in the Faculty of Law, Beverly Jacobs has been appointed the next associate dean (academic) at Windsor Law, both effective July 1, 2020.
— Published on Jul 9th, 2020
As Windsor-Essex moves towards reopening, the Government of Ontario announced a temporary foreign workers' plan which includes on-site testing at agri-farm businesses; allowing migrant workers access to Workplace Safety and Insurance Board benefits and protections under the Employment Standards Act; and new public health guidance for asymptomatic workers allowing them to continue working outdoors in isolation.
— Published on Jun 26th, 2020
Earlier this month, the Windsor Law Centre for Cities collaborated with the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) to publish a report on cities and COVID-19 after 100 days of shutdown. The report, which examines how life and governance — how we live, move, work, care, and prosper — in Canadian cities have changed over the first 100 days of the pandemic, was released Friday on COVID100.ca.
— Published on Jun 30th, 2020
Class Action Clinic lawyer Andrew Eckart provided comment in an APTN article on an uncertified $600 million class-action against northern RCMP. According to the article, the case was launched in 2018 on behalf of all First Nations, Inuit and Metis in Nunavut, N.W.T., and the Yukon who were harmed by unnecessary use of force by RCMP from 1928 until now.
— Published on Jun 23rd, 2020
A paper written by Professor Jillian Rogin has been cited with approval in Supreme Court Judgment R. v. Zora. The SCC judgment acknowledges that Indigenous people, overrepresented in the criminal justice system, are disproportionately affected by unnecessary and unreasonable bail conditions and resulting breach charges.
— Published on Jun 22nd, 2020
Windsor Law Professor Gemma Smyth is the inaugural recipient of the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education’s (ACCLE) Buhler Award. Named in honour of Sarah Buhler, long-time ACCLE board member and professor at the College of Law University of Saskatchewan, the award is presented to a professor whose work intersects academic and clinical approaches to clinical and experiential legal education.
— Published on Jun 22nd, 2020
Professor Richard Moon provided comment in a June 19 CBC Toronto article about an Oshawa store selling products that symbolize hate on their website.
According to the article, the owner of a military surplus store in Oshawa, says he didn’t know Nazi and Confederate flag items were for sale on his website. The owner continues to say that a third-party listed the products on his site without his knowledge.
— Published on Jun 19th, 2020
In May, when terrorism charges were added against a suspect in the killing of Ashley Noelle Arzaga, it marked the first time in Canada they were invoked against violence by “incels,” a group that identifies as involuntary celibate — rejected sexually by women.
Windsor law professor Reem Bahdi and Fahad Ahmad, a doctoral student of public policy at Carleton University, argue that adopting anti-terrorism strategies against incel ideology may make matters worse.
— Published on Jun 19th, 2020
