David Tanovich

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

The Government of Ontario has awarded Windsor Law professor David Tanovich the 2019 David Walter Mundell Medal for excellence in legal writing. The medal is awarded by the province’s attorney general on the recommendation of a selection committee chaired by the Chief Justice of Ontario, George Strathy.

Professor David Tanovich published an op-ed in the Globe and Mail about why we must end discrimination in jury selection.

Read the full op-ed on the Globe and Mail website.

In this Conversation essay, Professor Tanovich explores the triggers and process failures that enabled racial bias to impact the jury in the Gerald Stanley case.

Read the full essay on The Conversation website. 

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced today that they will honour Windsor Law Professor David Tanovich, as a Fellow at its induction and awards ceremony November 24th.

Tanovich is one of 89 new Fellows that the Royal Society of Canada has elected for 2017.