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WINDSOR DAILY NEWS: Panel to Discuss Issues in Food Law

(14 February 2018) Windsor Law Centre for Cities Affiliates Patricia Galvao Ferreira and Vasanthi Venkatesh will join expert panelists in…

University of Windsor law professor Laverne Jacobs is organizing a series of public discussions about the barriers for disabled people. She hopes to bring those issues to light for the public. (Jason Viau/CBC)

CBC WINDSOR: Laverne Jacobs on barriers accessing services for people with disabilities

A law professor at the University of Windsor is hoping to shine a light on the rights of disabled people,…

GLOBE AND MAIL: David Tanovich cited on police carding case

On a windy April morning last year, Hamilton City Councillor Matthew Green was checking e-mails as he waited for a…

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Chris Waters guest column in Windsor Star: Let’s make sidewalk cycling a thing of the past

This summer, a Windsor city councillor sparked controversy over his suggestion that bikes belong on sidewalks. The issue is not…

“They Should Be Here With Us”: Beginning with Communities to Reimagine the Role of Lawyers in Support of Systemic Change

LLM Thesis by Britney de Costa (2017), Windsor Law. This thesis explores the roles lawyers might play to support community-led…

CNN BUSINESS: Kristen Thomasen on ‘Minority Report’ 15 years later

The future is arriving even faster than the predictions depicted in "Minority Report," a film long hailed for being prescient.…

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Laverne Jacobs: ‘Humanizing’ Disability Law

This paper examines one of the most recent and widespread cases of consultation to occur in the development of lawmaking…

Implications of P3 Arrangements for Ontario Healthcare Infrastructure Procurement

Research Paper by Tyne Gatten (April 2016) for upper year Windsor Law seminar course: Private Property and the Public Interest.…

Heritage Properties: Demolition by Neglect and the Public Interest

Research Paper by Shannon Uhera (April 2016) for upper year Windsor Law seminar course: Private Property and the Public Interest.…

FINANCIAL POST: Anneke Smit on Supreme Court fight over Bridge-owned abandoned homes

A Supreme Court hearing about who’s responsible for a street full of abandoned houses near Canada’s busiest border crossing has…

CBC WINDSOR: Chris Waters interviewed on Windsor bike share potential

"If cycling's sustainable as a method of active transportation anywhere in Canada, it is here because it's relatively flat [and]…

Public Interest, Private Property by Anneke Smit and Marcia Valiante

Anneke Smit and Marcia Valiante, eds.: Public Interest, Private Property: Law and Planning Policy in Canada

At a time when pollution, urban sprawl, and condo booms are leading municipal governments to adopt prescriptive laws and regulations,…