Faculty & Programs

The Supreme Court of Canada released a decision on December 12 in which the Court provided a detailed discussion of the meaning of access to justice in the context of class action. In doing so, the Court cited a book edited by Prof. Kalajdzic. The book, "Accessing Justice: Appraising Class Actions Ten Years After Dutton, Hollick & Rumley", arose from a conference of the same name that Prof. Kalajdzic organized in 2011. 

"The colour of justice in Canada is White." That blunt reckoning opens Windsor Law professor David M. Tanovich's groundbreaking 2006 book, The Colour of Justice: Policing Race in Canada. In his professional and academic life, Tanovich is a leader among Canadian lawyers, legal scholars and activists in bringing the issue of racial profiling to the forefront of the debate over access to justice in the Canadian legal system.

Cultural anthropology is usually the stuff of remote rainforest tribes and secluded island kingdoms. But in a unique twist, Windsor Law professor Laverne Jacobs is applying the analytical tools of anthropology to a legal issue that strikes much closer to home.

Jacobs’ research focuses on questions of fairness in administrative law, particularly in administrative tribunals, the "arms-length" governmental bodies whose decisions can affect our everyday lives.

Professor Jeffrey Berryman wrote the book on remedies. Literally. In 1988, he and his co-authors published the landmark text, Remedies: Cases and Materials, an essential law school reference now in its 5th edition.

Remedies, Berryman explains, are civil court decisions that force one party to respect the rights of another party.

"It's great having the rights," says Berryman, citing freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the right to property, "but rights are only as good as the good as the remedies that enforce them."

Legal Assistance of Windsor (LAW) was founded in 1974 as a clinical learning project of the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law. Its goal was to provide an environment in which students could experience issues relating to access to justice in the context of a “storefront clinic” in downtown Windsor by examining the law and legal profession in context, while helping to provide legal services to those who were unable to pay a private lawyer and were unable to obtain a legal aid certificate.

One of the greatest advantages of attending Windsor Law is our location. With the United States only a river-crossing away, we are in a remarkable position to partner with American law schools that share our deep interest in comparative transnational law.

Starting 30 years ago, when both Windsor and Detroit were the centre of the North American auto industry, Windsor Law began sharing resources with American law schools to explore intellectual property (IP) law issues such as patents, copyright, trademarks and technological innovation.