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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]…
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,…
Anneke Smit: Making Up for the Loss of ‘Home’
This chapter, which considers the adequacy of compensation provisions in Canadian expropriation law from a socio-legal perspective, appears in Anneke…
Marcia Valiante: In Search of the Public Interest in Ontario Planning Decisions
This chapter considers the multiple "public interests" which run through land use planning decisions in Ontario. It appears in Anneke…
Anneke Smit co-editor of Onati Socio-Legal Series edition
A dedicated edition of the peer-reviewed journal, the Onati Socio-Legal Series, edited by Professor Emerita Jane Matthews Glenn of McGill University, Professor…
Syrian refugees: Windsor said to lack leadership for new arrivals
Windsor's political leaders need to step up their efforts to prepare for the arrival of Syrian refugees, according to University…
Chris Waters: The Rebirth of Bicycling Law?
This article sketches the “law of wheelmen” as it developed in the late 19th century and suggests that, with the…
Anneke Smit: Expropriation and the Socio-Economic Status of Neighbourhoods in Canada
Expropriation – the non-consensual taking of privately-owned property by the state in exchange for the payment of compensation – is…
Gemma Smyth: Considering Democracy and ADR
This article addresses diversity-based practice in public collaborative processes. Published in the peer-reviewed Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues,…
Beverly Jacobs: Stolen Sisters report on violence against Indigenous women in Canadian cities
This report, for which Beverly Jacobs was the lead researcher, examines the following factors which, too long neglected, have contributed…
