Faculty in the News

Professor Bogart discusses how to protect children against the impact of legalization and regulation of marijuana.

Professor David Tanovich published an article in The Walrus on May 18 entitled 'Rap on Trial: How courts are using song lyrics to convict young black men." 

Read Professor Tanovich's essay on rap on trial published by the Walrus here.

To read his published article, click here.

Professor Laverne Jacobs gave a keynote lecture at The Accessible World Conference held in Philadelphia, PA on April 28-29, 2016. Sharing her research with the broader community, her speech, entitled, “Getting Involved as a PWD!:  A Critique of Accessibility Standards from a Social Justice Perspective” was a keynote for the Policy Track.

More information about the conference may be found at:

http://generocity.org/philly/2016/02/22/the-accessible-world-conference-evoxlabs/

and

https://theaccessibleworld.herokuapp.com/#team

When she joins our Windsor Law faculty as Assistant Professor of Law, Robotics and Society, Kristen Thomasen's work will focus on the high-tech problems of the not-too-distant future — specifically drones and robots.

Kristen was interviewed this morning on CBC Radio's Windsor This Morning about the legal implications of robots. Read the article and listen to the interview here.

Professor David Tanovich was cited in The Star, Saturday, April 23, in regards to R v Thompson and a recent finding of racial profiling by a trial judge in Toronto. Read the full story here. 

Professor John Cerone had two engagements this week with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.  On Monday afternoon he lectured at Harvard on IHL frameworks for senior humanitarian professionals in the context of HHI's Humanitarian Leadership Course. Yesterday, the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard launched a podcast on the Politics of Aid in Ukraine.  

Listen to the podcast here.

Professor Jasminka Kalajdzic was interviewed by CBC regarding the sexual abuse class action lawsuit over abuse by former police officer Kenneth Estabrooks.

Read the full article here.

Professor Anneke Smit provided a legal perspective on the decades-long battle between the City of Windsor and the Ambassador Bridge Company, and the recent Supreme Court hearing between the parties in both the National Post and the Windsor Star.

Read the full National Post article here.

Professor Laverne Jacobs was interviewed by Lawyers Weekly in an article today entitled, "School abuse victims privacy rights upheld," by Kim Arnott.

Click here to read the full article.

Bill Bogart’s latest Huffington Post article was on UNGASS (United Nations General  Assembly on Drugs) held in New York this week (April 19-21). 

Read the article here. 

Professor Bogart was also interviewed about it on CBC Windsor, CBC Online, CFRB 1010 Toronto, and Sirius XM. 

Read the CBC Online story here.