The Faculty of Law is located on the main campus of the University of Windsor, approximately three miles from downtown Windsor. The campus covers 75 acres on the Detroit River at the foot of the imposing Ambassador Bridge in the United States. The university is fully accredited at the doctoral level. The faculty is accredited by the Law Society of Ontario and all other common law institutes in Canada. Students may also be eligible for a number of external awards. While the journal primarily publishes academics and practitioners, the annual Canadian Law Student Conference is a unique annual event that showcases the research and scholarship of LL.B., J.D., LL.M. and graduate students across Canada, providing a forum for discussion and feedback from practitioners and peers. The Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues invites all law students to submit original scholarly articles on any legal topic with a Canadian reference, which will be considered for presentation at the 5th Annual Canadian Law Student Conference. Articles should not exceed 20,000 words, including footnotes. Footnotes must conform to the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (McGill Guide, 7th edition).
Two papers are selected as “Best Student Papers”, each eligible for a prize of 250 US dollars. These awards are generously sponsored by Torys LLP. [22] The Class Action Clinic provides legal services and resources to Class Members and also produces public legal education materials. The Juris Doctor (JD) degree program requires admission as a full-time student for three years or as a part-time student for six years. The structure of this program is based on a compulsory first year and two compulsory courses in the higher years. Founded in 1979, the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice was Canada`s first journal devoted to the cross-cultural and international study of individuals and groups excluded from the protection of national or international legal systems. The directory is independently evaluated, publishes essays and reviews of French and English books, is managed by the faculty and supported by a prestigious advisory board. The Yearbook promotes a wide variety of essays in a wide range of disciplines, such as anthropology, sociology, philosophy, psychology, history and comparative literature, and law. [23] The Faculty of Law adheres to the principles of access to justice in all aspects of its operations, including its admissions policy,[8] faculty recruitment,[9] faculty research,[10] and academia, as well as its program of study. [11] Transnational legal issues, international trade and finance, and international law are other important areas of research and teaching due to the faculty`s proximity to Detroit and several Michigan universities. The Faculty of Law takes a holistic approach to student admissions that considers seven unique factors:[15] The faculty, in partnership with Legal Aid Ontario, operates a community law clinic in downtown Windsor called Legal Assistance of Windsor. The clinic is staffed by lawyers, social workers, law students and social work students and aims to meet the legal needs of people who have traditionally been denied access to justice.
This clinic offers landlord-tenant services, benefits, and immigration and refugee laws. He also assists clients in filing claims with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board of Ontario. The University of Windsor Faculty of Law publishes the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice twice a year with the help of grants from the Law Foundation of Ontario and support from the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. From time to time, additional grants have been awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The directory is indexed and summarized as follows: CSA Sociological Abstracts, Canadian Association of Scholarly Journals, Current Law Index, Current Law Journal Content, Index to Canadian Legal Literature, Index to Legal Periodicals and Books, IndexMaster, CPI-Q, Hein Online, LegalTrac, Lexis Advanced Quicklaw, Ulrich`s Periodicals Directory, Westlaw & Wilson Web. The Yearbook has consistently been ranked as one of the most important specialized legal examinations in Canada. [24] We recently launched our clerkship program. As an external person, you will be placed for 1 semester in a law-related community organization, legal clinic, legal aid office, government agency or non-profit organization, where you will make a significant contribution to the work of the organization. There are a number of locations in a variety of practice areas, including immigration, health, criminal, family law, seniors, children, municipal law, and environmental law. There are investments in the Greater Toronto Area, Sarnia, Chatham and Hamilton.
Windsor Law is home to the Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship Clinic (LTEC),[12] a clinical project led by several law professors specializing in technology law. The goal of the LTEC is to provide unique clinical legal education to final-year law students and, in turn, to support entrepreneurship and innovation in the Windsor-Essex region. LTEC offers community legal education workshops on aspects of business law and intellectual property law (patents, copyrights and trademarks). In addition, LTEC provides legal services to eligible clients throughout the Windsor-Essex region in matters of commercial or intellectual property law. [13] The success of the ILECs has increased enormously in recent years and will continue to be an important academic and research focus for faculty in the future. The Clinical Law program educates you about the various roles lawyers play as client advisors, lawyers, policy makers, jurists, and guardians of the legal system, and provides semester university credits. The program includes Community Legal Aid (CLA), Legal Assistance of Windsor (LAW), Chatham-Kent Legal Clinic and Community Legal Assistance-Sarnia. The Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues (WRLSI) is one of the few multidisciplinary legal journals in Canada. The WRLSI was first published in 1989 and was originally an annual publication. Due to the increase in the number of submissions received and the recognition of its journal, WRLSI now publishes two volumes per year with essays by academics, magistrates, practitioners, law students, and graduate and undergraduate university students. As an interdisciplinary legal journal, WRLSI strives to use law studies as a vehicle for social change. His journal strives to be a resource for professionals, students and academics.
The issue of “access to justice,” studied by the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, has influenced our mandate to publish articles examining the law in its social context and the impact of social issues on the law. National and international concerns relevant to Canadian society also play a central role in the articles selected for publication. Law libraries at the national and global levels subscribe to the WRLSI. The law review has also been made available through electronic databases such as Lexis Advance Quicklaw, Westlaw and Hein Online. [21] The Migrant Agricultural Worker Walk-in Summary Counselling initiative offers a bi-weekly summary counselling clinic for migrant agricultural workers at various locations in the Leamington area. Windsor Law offers a joint J.D./M.B.A. program with the Odette School of Business. [18] Students must also complete a research paper worth at least 50% of the grade in a course, a course from a group of courses that give a broader perspective on the legal process and legal theory, and a course from a group of transnational law courses. Another partnership with a university in Michigan, Wayne State University Law School, led to the creation of the Transnational Environmental Law Clinic.
This hands-on clinic allows students to gain experience with international environmental law issues around air quality, environmental justice, Great Lakes water quality and quantity, invasive species, and renewable energy. [27] Unconditional and conditional acceptances may be granted to Canadian Aboriginal applicants who are considered to have good potential to study law. Candidates who have received conditional acceptance from the Faculty of Law and who have successfully completed the Aboriginal Legal Studies program offered each summer by the University of Saskatchewan`s Native Law Centre will be admitted to the first year of the J.D. program and may be credited for real estate law. Students may be eligible for scholarships at both the University of Detroit Mercy and the University of Windsor, see the University of Detroit Mercy Scholarships and the University of Windsor Scholarships.